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#496 Major Controversies in First Century Christianity - Jimmy Akin

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Gnosticism in the Second and Third Centuries

There are also stories about the author of the Joining Epistles, you know, St. John, having a conflict with Gnostic name, Corinthus or it also gets pronounced Serenthus. And he once ran into a once went into a bath house because people didn't have private bathrooms. It's hard to know how historically reliable they are. What we can say with confidence is Gnosticism really took off in the second and third centuries.

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