spirit is unchangeably good. When Gnosticism blended itself with Christianity, its basic teaching concerning matter and spirit raised four questions which demanded answers: (1) How could the spirit being, God, create the material universe and not contaminate Himself in doing so? The Gnostics answered that God created a being a little less holy than Himself and that in turn this being created a less holy being. These emanations or aeons continued until a being was created who was sufficiently evil
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