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What is Gnosticism?

Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman

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The Role of Jesus in the Creation of the World

Most Gnostics were dualists in the sense that they thought that all of reality is either matter or spirit. In this system, roughly speaking, matter is bad andspirit is good. So what role then if we're looking at the world? What role does Jesus play in this? And does that play into his identity as human or divine?

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