The Gnostic Heresy
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🗓️ 24 January 2024
⏱️ 133 minutes
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Gnosticism is one of the oldest religions of man. When Satan tempted Eve in the Garden, it was with an invitation to learn secret — explicitly forbidden, in this case — knowledge. From the mystery cults of Ancient Greece and Rome to modern Pentecostalism, Mormonism, and any of dozens of other cults, Gnosticism has always been a major font of false religion and corruption.
Christianity is not a mystery religion; Christianity is a religion with mysteries. The Sacrament is a mystery, because we cannot fully understand it, but it is not a mystery in the sense of being secret knowledge — we proclaim it publicly before the world and it is set forth in God’s Word. Anyone who claims that you must have some secret knowledge in order to be a good or a full or a proper Christian is lying to you and attempting to drag you into heresy and apostasy. There is no secret knowledge in Christianity.
In today’s episode, we do not go over the specifics of any of the various Gnostic cults — ancient or modern; rather, we go over the core of the Gnostic claims and the foundation of their beliefs: the existence of mystical or esoteric knowledge, the salvific nature of this supposed knowledge, dualism, and the denial of the flesh (i.e., the material).
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome to the Stone Quire podcast. |
| 0:39.3 | I am Corey J. Mahler. |
| 0:41.3 | And I'm still, whoa. |
| 0:43.3 | Today's Stone Quire is part three of our four-part series on the subject of the state of the church today. |
| 0:50.3 | In terms of foreign beliefs being imported into the church and being passed off as |
| 0:56.5 | Christian. The first episode that we did specifically dealt with defining Christianity or defining |
| 1:03.2 | religion in general in terms specifically of the source of right and wrong of morality. |
| 1:09.6 | Because there are a lot of different sources of morality that we |
| 1:12.1 | use today that we believe are giving us moral answers to things, but they're not from the Bible. |
| 1:18.9 | But then we think they're Christian after the fact because we think they're moral. And so we |
| 1:22.6 | talked for a couple hours about the fact that that's really dangerous, because if you're getting |
| 1:26.6 | your morality from the world and the world is evil, you're getting your morality from Satan and we should care. |
| 1:32.9 | Last week's episode, we specifically dealt with Judaizing. This was the very first heresy that |
| 1:38.3 | attacked the early church. And we talked specifically about two big areas and gave a couple other examples of ways in which |
| 1:46.5 | the early church faced an attack from Satan that did not directly attack the gospel, not overly. |
| 1:54.5 | It did subtly, and it did ultimately. |
| 1:56.8 | But the attack was to say, okay, you're Christian, that's fine. |
| 2:00.6 | But you still need to do the Jewish stuff. |
| 2:03.3 | And the case we made in the Judaizing episode, although I didn't say this explicitly during the episode, |
| 2:08.2 | I realized when I was re-listening to it, I think that we made the case, the point repeatedly throughout, |
| 2:13.9 | that we didn't want to just give a list of, here are the top five ways that the church |
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