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    How many gods then?!!

    Well can't I simply say the same to you? Where is your god? he can't do anything and can't prevent you from dying either. so he is no god then just like all the other false gods you put down... But seriously though, that isn't much of a valid debate if that's all you can come up with...
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    Why is it you serve Your God

    Hi, I haven't been around here for quite some time, but I thought I'd answer your questions, is this just for discussion? I follow a now extinct religion called Simonianism, founded by Simon Magus of Samaria. He proclaimed himself as the Christ that John the Baptist promised would come, a...
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    What religion is best?

    He who rejects the angelic creators of the world, discarding their religions and setting his mind towards the Power above, surely he has reached the supreme abode! ;)
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    Melchizedek as a deity???

    yeah maybe I mis-read Hyppolytus, he may have not meant Melchizedek equated with the Highest God but a great power greater than Christ. The sect is only briefly mentioned, not alot of details unfortunately. There's is a Gnostic text called "Melchizedek" in the Nag Hammadi Library so maybe that's...
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    Melchizedek as a deity???

    This is pretty interesting, there was an ancient Gnostic or Heretical movement called the Melchizedekians who raised the mysterious biblical priest-king to the status of Supreme God. Instead of accepting the Trinity, they broke the system down into three separate persons: Melchizedek becomes God...
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    What does your religion give you a feeling of?

    I follow a now extinct faith-based religion called Simonianism, branded as "Gnostic" by the Roman church fathers. It was founded by Simon Magus near the beginning of the 1st century, declaring himself to be the virgin-born incarnation of the unknown heavenly Father, sent to reveal salvation to...
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    What inspired you to identify yourself as "Gnostic"?

    The Gospel of John looks like it's been tampered with if you ask me. Why the heck would a Gospel written to refute such deadly Gnosticism have so much Gnostic undertones and strange differences from the Synoptic Gospels. Why trust the authorship of any Gospel at all since none even sign their...
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    What inspired you to identify yourself as "Gnostic"?

    let's see....Irenaeus right? Alot of the others copied off of him so I'll bet he's the culprit. So do you think there was an original gospel of Cerinthus, including even epistles (formerly John's) and a proto-Revelations text? I'm aware of the accusations against him from others, they...
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    What inspired you to identify yourself as "Gnostic"?

    yeah that never made any sense where they got the idea that Paul expressed similar beliefs with the Simon Magus tradition. Those early Pauline gnostics were not started specifically with Marcion either as we know, remember Cerdon was even before him professing a Duo-Theism of sorts. So what we...
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    Arian Catholics

    Does anyone know anything about the Nordic adaptation of Arian Catholicism, especially if it was different from the Roman one? Just curious...It's an interesting subject.
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    Christian Devotion

    Many Bosnians were also Cathars and other heretical movements. I wonder if she was maybe a Cathar or just belonging to the Orthodox Bosnian Church, which unlike the Roman Catholic Church of the times, were more lenient and accepting towards radical heretics like Cathars and their Churches.
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    Did Buddhism Influence Gnosticism?

    I too, have had interests in Buddhism and Eastern philosophy like Taoism. I think we can honestly say that the varieties of the Gnostics were influenced by Graeco-Roman philosophy, literature, and the Western branches of mysticism, rather than from the East, but the West may have been inspired...
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    What inspired you to identify yourself as "Gnostic"?

    well yeah, none of the texts concerning Simon the magician cast him in a very good light simply because they came from enemy hands, but what's interesting is they go into detail and alot of it may have truth. I've been reading from the Clementine Legends, I don't think that's the same as Acts of...
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    What inspired you to identify yourself as "Gnostic"?

    By the way, I pretty much accept everyone elses' beliefs and religions, usually I just try to leave others alone who are more fundamentalist, instead of getting into debate, to which I am not very good at defending myself lol. I just don't see the point in slamming people this or that way...
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    What inspired you to identify yourself as "Gnostic"?

    I consider myself Gnostic, but not the mainstream mystical term or level. I don't believe in Monistic thought, for the most part at least, though I am always open to change. I might actually be a bit dualistic sometimes in my approach to divinity. I had recently become a Gnostic, last year or...
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    Is the Gospel Of Bartholemew A Forgery?

    yeah the older Gospel of B. was where Satan was called Belial, and was talking with the angel of Hades, simply called Hades in the text. Bartholomew also conversed with Satan, to which the Devil told him many things like his origin as greatest angel of heaven. When I was studying Theistic...
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    hello

    hi what's up everyone??? I'm a Gnostic, well sorta. I practice what's "considered" the first Gnostic movement, the Simonian Tradition founded by the one and only Simon Magus himself :D Hence why I chose the nickname. Ok a little clarification here. I don't consider the tradition Gnostic in...
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