Chapter One Hundred Seventeen The Gnostic Gospels Introduction It has become quite popular on college campuses for atheistic professors to attack Christianity by stating that Gnosticism was the “original” Christianity. Thus, the Christian student today has to have a basic understanding of Gnosticism in order to defend the faith (Jude 3). 1. The Early Christian Church rejected various fake gospels produced by a Greek mystery religion called Gnosticism, which attempted to absorb Christianity. The
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