What Is Gnosticism?

Gnosticism is kind of a slippery term because like at what point do you declare it? This is Gnosticism, right? With the scholarly consensus, you can't get anything historical out of acts anyway. It's almost impossible, right? Yeah. The thing against Samaritans. Well, in the beginning, Jesus ministry was not for anybody but the chosen people. But then all of a sudden everything changed and he was going to include the Gentiles. And Simon Magus wanted to get in on it. Why would you want to pay for something that you're going to get for free anyway?"