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#49 Other faiths, Judaism and Gnosticism

Ask NT Wright Anything

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The Importance of Gnosticism

Gnosticism is not a religion of redemption it's a religion of revelation. It says Jesus comes to show you that you are one of the special ones now this happens both very personally when people think oh now I have a secret that nobody else has. That kind of western arrogance which is typically British and typical of the western world then becomes the default position for people religiously. So narcissism is a poison we need to root it out of the churches every generation has to do that but we need to see its larger cultural effects in terms of what that's forced or allowed the west to do to the rest of the world there's a major task here.

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