A gnostic atheist is someone who knows that things like god and whatnot are real. It has nothing to do with actual gnosticism, as that would be an oxymoron. The term "gnostic" in this sense just means that they know. This would differ from the term "agnostic", as an agnostic atheist would just believe there is no god, but would make no claim that we could know if god existed or not. A regular atheist would be someone who doesn't claim to know if god doesn't or does exist, they would just not believe.
I can call myself a gnostic atheist, as I can say for certain that things like ghosts and the like do not exist.
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A type of christianity that does not go by the new testament but by the ancient gnostic writings many of which make up it's bible.
One group of them uses the gospel of Mary which has christ saying that there is no such thing as sin.
One group of them uses the gospel of Mary which has christ saying that there is no such thing as sin.
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Get the Neo gnostic christianity mug.A conspiracy theory nut. From the ancient Christian Gnostics who thought Judas was the good guy in the Bible. This type of person thinks they know something everyone else doesn't dispite the fact they only have a highschool education and lives in the basement reasearch the moon landing, JFK, and 9/11 all day.
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Get the gnostic mug.1. combination of the words, gnarly, nice, awesome, and fantastic.
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"Whoaaa broahs, that sesh was totallly gnostic!"
"Word mang...the powpow is seriously gnostic!"
"Mom, these eggs are fuggin gnostic!"
"GNOSTIC!"
"Word mang...the powpow is seriously gnostic!"
"Mom, these eggs are fuggin gnostic!"
"GNOSTIC!"
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Get the Gnostic mug.An ancient religious movement that evolved out of nascent Jewish and Christian sects in the late 1st century A.D. Gnosticism is a very subversive set of ideas, and it's distantly related to other Abrahamic mystical traditions like Kabbalah, but was suppressed by the early orthodox Christians and Jews as a perversion of their beliefs.
Basically, Gnostics read the first chapters of Genesis in a very different way than is traditional, seeing the serpent that tempted Adam and Eve as good and viewing the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil as humanities first step into consciousness.
Because of this, Gnosticism posits that the god of the Hebrew Bible, Yahweh, is actually an evil bastard child of the lowest aeon called Sophia (Greek for "Wisdom") who disobeyed the higher aeons and fell from grace.
Gnostic cosmogonies are complex and convoluted and very diverse across different movements, but a basic description of it would be that basically Yahweh and his archons (Greek for "rulers") created the physical world and rule over it, trapping our souls within it to keep us from the light world, the world which is ruled by the aeons and a Supreme God who is fundamentally good and who possesses both masculine and feminine hypostases.
Many Gnostics believe this good God is the God of the New Testament and they generally regard Jesus as a savior who came into the world to rescue a fallen Sophia and bring humanity back into the light world through knowledge.
Basically, Gnostics read the first chapters of Genesis in a very different way than is traditional, seeing the serpent that tempted Adam and Eve as good and viewing the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil as humanities first step into consciousness.
Because of this, Gnosticism posits that the god of the Hebrew Bible, Yahweh, is actually an evil bastard child of the lowest aeon called Sophia (Greek for "Wisdom") who disobeyed the higher aeons and fell from grace.
Gnostic cosmogonies are complex and convoluted and very diverse across different movements, but a basic description of it would be that basically Yahweh and his archons (Greek for "rulers") created the physical world and rule over it, trapping our souls within it to keep us from the light world, the world which is ruled by the aeons and a Supreme God who is fundamentally good and who possesses both masculine and feminine hypostases.
Many Gnostics believe this good God is the God of the New Testament and they generally regard Jesus as a savior who came into the world to rescue a fallen Sophia and bring humanity back into the light world through knowledge.
Person 1: Wow! Did you hear about the discovery of the Nag Hammadi library?
Person 2: No, what does it contain?
Person 1: It contains the ancient writings of Gnosticism, a mystical religious movement that existed about 2000 years ago!
Person 2: No, what does it contain?
Person 1: It contains the ancient writings of Gnosticism, a mystical religious movement that existed about 2000 years ago!
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Get the Gnosticism mug.opposite of agnostic, having spiritual knowledge. A small Group of Christians claimed to be Gnostics, its pretty much died out since then
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