How does one demonstrate that one has acquired a secret knowledge? How did the gnostics themselves demonstrate and understand this secret inner knowledge? Many, many Christians, who are not ...

Jesus Christ is one of the most important religious figures in history. During his life, he was a revolutionary, sage, teacher, and purported miracle worker. In death, he has been revered and studied ...

Gnostics believed that there were actually two Gods, and that the God of the Jews was an evil or ignorant creator who deceived people. One Gnostic text calls the Hebrew patriarchs a "joke"!

The word Gnostic, from the Greek word for knowledge, expresses the central tenet of this faith -- Gnostics believe Jesus' mission was to teach people that the divine lives within each of us ...

The Gnostics - from the Greek word gnosis or knowledge (hence agnosis, or lack of knowledge) - existed at the birth of Christianity. No historian has ever felt confident enough to say which of the ...