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#496 Major Controversies in First Century Christianity - Jimmy Akin
Catholic Answers Focus
The History of Gnosticism
The Gnostics were a pseudo-Christian religious movement that existed in the second and third centuries. They mixed non-Christian elements with Christian thought, like the New Age movement today. The term Gnosticism is a modern term invented by modern scholars as a kind of catch all term to cover these different groups. One of their ideas was that our world is evil and broken. It was not made good by a good God. And so they had this idea that there's a Supreme deity who has issued these emanations that became other divine beings.
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