The Gnostic writings do present a problem. But they may not be wrong, although they do contradict certain canonical Christian teachings. But Christian teaching in the Bible is self-contradictory.
Christians for millennia have been performing mental gymnastics in an attempt to explain this away...
You are exactly right. But what we know about the canon largely existed before the First Council of Nicaea. That was held largely to determine/destroy writings deemed to be Arian in origin. Though there were still Gnostics around, that movement was almost extinct. A few very brave people...
Pantheism and panantheism are often used derisively. Most Christians claim to attribute God with omnipresence. But they don’t mean it. They cut God short of being able to exist in everything. The basic substance and energy of all creation. They claim God occupies only the souls of...