During the last 40 years German scholars, notably Rudolph Bultmann, have claimed that New Testament writers, especially in their understanding of Jesus Christ, depended largely upon Gnostic myths.

According to Bloom, some parts of American Christianity have stressed "a Gnostic knowing of Jesus through direct acquaintance." Since this experience of "Jesus" is direct, there is no need for an ...

Gnosticism for Beginners The lens of Gnosticism interprets the gospel story in a certain way. The Jewish deity is seen as the bad creator, the Demiurge who is surpassed by the messianic Jesus.

The ads are designed to reach people who have come to believe that Jesus could not possibly love them.  They may have engaged ...

"[Jesus Seminar advocates] tend to say our primary and most important source of Jesus has not been canonical gospel in the New Testament, but rather extra biblical sources like the Gnostic gospels, ...

This challenges the core Christian belief that Jesus is both divine and human who is forever distinct from the rest of humanity he came to serve. Some historians suggested that Buddhist enlightenment ...

Jesus in John 6:31-33 compares Himself to this ... Ignatius of Antioch warned the Smyrnaeans about the Docetes - gnostic heretics: They (the Docetes) have no care for love, no thought for the ...

Oh Jesus. Shut your mouth, buddy,' said Rogan ... No, the only ones from the ancient world that deny his resurrection are groups that come on afterwards that sometimes are — sometimes are described as ...

An examination of the contested category known as 'gnosticism,' the texts found at Nag Hammadi, and the challenges posed by this material to our expectations as we attempt to understand developments ...