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Christian History Magazine—Issue 96: The Gnostic Hunger for Secret Knowledge is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Gnostics called themselves “enlightened.” The early church called them heretics. In recent years the early church has become a subject of public debate and an enormous amount of confusion. Gone are the days when the average Christian can get away with not knowing about the Gnostics, the early church’s Rule of Faith, or how the biblical canon developed. In this issue the editors lay out the...

They do not chronicle the life of Jesus and are not primarily concerned with historical events but with spiritual advice, revelations, and explanations of the Gnostic view of the cosmos. THE DIVINE SPARK. Gnostics believed they were the elect, spiritual ones who alone had the “seed” of the divine trapped inside their earthly bodies. Salvation for them meant escape from the material world. Some Gnostics believed in reincarnation for imperfect souls who might have another opportunity in this world
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