All variations of Gnosticism had one central belief in common concerning the Bible. This belief was that the Old Testament was a revelation from one God while what is written in the New Testament is a …

The book itself does not refer to the divinity of Jesus. In fact, it remains aligned with Gnostic beliefs that deny his divinity. Further Gnostic earmarks in the book are its continual references to Jesus' sayings …

The 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica also noted a few facts about the use of Amen in the world. "Among certain Gnostic sects Amen became the name of an angel, and in post-biblical Jewish works …

Gnostic Beliefs Gnostics believed that matter was inherently evil but that spirit was good. Based on this they promoted the teaching that Jesus only seemed to be human but was actually a spirit being (A …

The gospels, the first four books of the New Testament, were inspired and created so that a written record existed regarding the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. God's Holy Spirit within the four …

The phrase "living waters" or its singular is found only eight times in the King James Bible. Both the Hebrew and Greek words translated as "living" (Strong's #H2416, #G2198) in these phrases mean …

According to some online dictionaries, the English biologist Thomas H. Huxley, who was a vocal advocate of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, coined the word agnostic in 1869 A.D. He created …

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Meaning of Numbers: The Number 37 The English phrases "thirty and seven" and "seven and thirty," used for the number 37, are recorded 8 times in 8 King James Bible verses. The possible meaning of …

All the Gnostic divisions in the church, in the second century, were united in denying the resurrection of the dead. We find the Colossian heretics introducing a worship of angels, "intruding into those things …