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The Gnostic Instinct in the American Church
Gnosticism was a philosophy that was present in the first century, but really came full bloom in the third and fourth century. It's from the Greek word gnosis that you're saved by knowledge and hidden knowledge. How I see that manifest in the churches is we're always looking for the secret of heaven here on earth. And how it also to manifest is that, look, if I do X, it's only in the body, what's spiritual is what really matters.