Post by Dave on Jun 10, 2020 23:58:52 GMT -5
This Jewish example of heaven and hell is a little fun and 100% Gnostic
(Wiki) – Valentinus… most successful early Christian gnostic theologian. He founded his school in Rome
Christian Gnostic 2nd Century AD – who taught, opened a school
Why is he called a Gnostic?
(Wiki) ….According to Tertullian, Valentinus was a candidate for bishop but started his own group when another was chosen.
Valentinus broke away from Rome – therefore the definition Gnostic –
anything without the Roman stamp of approval = Gnostic because they say so
(Wiki) … Valentinus produced a variety of writings, but only fragments survive, largely those embedded in refuted quotations in the works of his opponents, not enough to reconstruct his system except in broad outline.
Look at how viciously Rome tried to stamp out Gnostic heresy
(Wiki) … His doctrine is known to us only in the developed and modified form given to it by his disciples. He taught that there were three kinds of people, the spiritual, psychical, and material; and that only those of a spiritual nature received the gnosis (knowledge) that allowed them to return to the divine Pleroma, while those of a psychic nature (ordinary Christians) would attain a lesser or uncertain form of salvation, and that those of a material nature were doomed to perish
Spiritual Christians – Born Again Christians – taught by the HS / Comforter / Goddess of Wisdom
Granted the Jewish Divine Pardon – skip Proportional Punishment
Psychic Christians - Ordinary Christians – Sun day Christians – believers, but unwilling to be Nazarite
Proportional Punishment – the time fits the crime
Material – worldly – non-believers = doomed to perish
(Wiki) Valentinus was involved in the Arian disputes in the fourth century
If you don’t know any church history – you should look into the Great Skism
Was Christ a man or divine?
Remember we do not have his writings – thanks to Rome - BUT
Valentinus had several heretical ideas – like:
In the fourth century, Marcellus of Ancyra declared that the idea of the Godhead existing as three hypostases (hidden spiritual realities) came from Plato through the teachings of Valentinus, who is quoted as teaching that God is three hypostases and three prosopa (persons) called the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit:
Father – Son – and Holy Spirit was Gnostic when Rome said all gnosticims is in error
Oops! - I guess Rome was wrong about the “Gnostic Christian Valentinus”