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What is Gnosticism?

Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman

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The Unknowable God

Gnostic myth says that before there was anything else, there was a divine being of some kind. The God is pure spirit and can't be detected by any of the senses. Other divine beings come off from him often in pairs. Play Roma is a Greek word that means fullness. That's before there's anything and it's all good.

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