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The philosophy of Gnosticism sought to
destroy the Ancient Gnostics claimed that they had
secret revelation that was kept from the church in general. It was knowledge that would
only be revealed to the truly spiritual. Rather than admitting that Jesus was God come in
the flesh, they emphasized the resurrected “spiritual” Jesus. The Apostle John
recognized the Gnostic heresy in his day and penned the Gospel of John in order to
confront it. Therefore he wrote, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
with God, and the Word was God. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we
beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and
truth.” (Jn 1:1, 14 MKJV) And then he furthered: “By this you know the Spirit of
God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and
every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of
God.” (I Jn 4:2-3a MKJV) “For many deceivers have gone out into the world who do
not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an
antichrist.” (II Jn 1:7 MKJV) Though their philosophies were defeated by
the According to contemporary writer Philip
Lee, Gnosticism has returned for the same purpose that it had during the early church
– to disfigure Christianity. To the Gnostic the knowledge of God is all about
“turning away from this world.” Even as they do, contemporary Gnostics are
seeking to change the world. In their dualistic attempt to “turn
away from the world,” modern so-called Christian Gnostics end out distorting
Scripture and devaluing man as a result. Hence, it is with Gnosticism in mind that the
contemporary praise song “Be Unto Your Name” states, “We are a vapor, You
are eternal.” In contrast the scriptures declare: “For what is your life? It is
even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.” (James 4:14b
MKJV) The Bible instructs that this present life will one day end, but we will live
forever. The Gnostic sees our very existence as something that vanishes as it is gulped up
by eternity. Thus “we are a vapor.” In the attempt to magnify the Lord, the
message becomes: “All we are is dust in the wind.” But is our God so
insignificant that we have to become small so that He can become big? Do we have to become
nothing so that He can be something? Apparently many Gnostics in the body of Christ today
believe this is so and so they reach up to heaven while turning their backs on the
physical realm that they have learned to despise.
Worship for the Eastern mind is seen as
the leap into this other world to experience that divine state of being in the here and
now. It is seen as an experiential jump into your final incarnated state of being God
where the mysteries of God are revealed. It is an escape from the world into god-hood, at
least for the time being to look for the god within. Peter Jones writes in Spirit Wars:
“Spiritual understanding through intuition and meditation is the only way to
salvation. Such insight comes through a non-rational, mystical experience of seeing
oneself as the center of a circle that has no boundaries. From the center of its own
limitless universe the self necessarily reigns supreme! The experience is engendered in
the fast track through drugs or, in the safer lane, through time-honored (Hindu)
meditation. Rightly practiced, such meditation enables the mind/soul to be disconnected
from the limitations of the body. In the experience of this knowledge (gnosis) of the self
as connected to the whole and thus divine, there occurs the liberating paradigm shift
through which redemption of the self and the planet becomes possible. The experience,
though antithetical to the Creator’s designs, and therefore ultimately noxious,
nevertheless produces a profound sense of release and liberation, a bogus ‘virtual
redemption.’ In the triumph of mind over matter, as the mind empties itself of all
thought, human beings ‘realize’ their divinity.” The path of meditation is to look inward
to this divine god that the pagan believes he is. With that in mind two leading feminist
Catholic Nuns wrote: “We cannot seek God as an object separate from our world,
outside our lived experience, . . God is experienced not so much as a separate being, but
God is sensed as the deepest dimension of our being. What we find is not god ourselves. .
. The process of self-knowledge is the process of knowing God.” “God, who has
been imprinted in our minds as a transcendent absolute, must somehow be recovered in an
epiphany of immanence, of divine self-revelation.” Stay Tuned for More!!!! If you liked this CLICK HERE or call Author House @ 888.280.7715 to purchase a soft or hard cover copy of Don Wigton's book "Holy Wars" upon which this blog is based.Click Here to purchase the E-book edition for only 99 cents!
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