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Freedom to seek God without an intermediary and join 10 religions if I want.
People desire worship and project it onto their image of god.
You are thinking of the god of Israel who is not God.
Or that only one religion is the correct one.
originally posted by: ElementalFreeze
a reply to: intrptr
God is unknowable so you can only learn as much Wisdom and Knowledge as you can until you find out at death the truth.
originally posted by: chr0naut
a reply to: ElementalFreeze
So, the defining feature of Gnosticism is that it can't truly be defined. Because by applying a definition, you prevent the freedom from definition that defines it.
originally posted by: CapstonePendulum
a reply to: ElementalFreeze
I get what you are saying what you have to do is just laugh at them for pretending to know what something that they have never studied beyond a Wikipedia entry and the opinions of Christians who don't understand Christianity but want to tell you all about what Gnosticism is.
They are just jealous you have the courage to not be herded like a sheep and that you have the courage to say that guy in the OT is evil and is not God.
They are just following while you get to spread your wings and fly. When they harass you about your beliefs without knowing them or you they are just being ignorant and intolerant. When they pretend to know what Gnosticism is by associating it with one book that is different schools of thought (Nag Hammadi) they are just proving that they haven't read them. When people try to assume knowledge without actually having said knowledge then they are idiots for assuming and equally stupid for telling you whatyou sshould and shouldn't believe.
Don't ever let an imbecile like that get to you. That's the fun of being Gnostic is laughing at people who are clueless.
Good post though I didn't know people got like that. Everyone I know is cool and I am not used to dealing with what you said so I won't judge but just remember that wise men listen and laugh while fools talk.
Faith in Wisdom
They say that talking to yourself is the first sign of madness...