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I was doing a devotional and this word popped up. I would like to know what it means from a biblical stance. Could someone explain?

It was the first major departure and set of false teachers that sprang up in the early church.  It was centered around a quest for "secret knowledge", likely inspired by Greek philosophy's quest for wisdom.  It led quickly to an arrogant spirit of "we know more than your average Christian", that in my opinion laid the groundwork for later clergy/laety (sp) classifications of Christians.  Because a Gnostic is "enlightened" with his secret knowledge, he can say the bible teaches things that most of us would say are wrong, but in his opinion we are just the "unenlightened".  Something like that.

Various thick, soft dumplings. They may be made from semolina, ordinary wheat flour, potato, bread crumbs, or similar ingredients.

Various thick, soft dumplings. They may be made from semolina, ordinary wheat flour, potato, bread crumbs, or similar ingredients.

That's Gnocchi.

Quote from: Daniel on March 19, 2011, 02:33:40 PM

Quote from: Ring Wraith on March 19, 2011, 10:53:20 AM

This might need to be in the Open Discussion section.

Not everything about religion is taboo for 15 year olds and under. 

However, it presents some very controversial ideas that might confuse young ones. This it why Colin was banned and Open Discussion was created.

To be fair, Colin was banned months after Open Discussion was created.

I did say the whole "clergy" analogy was my opinion, based on an "upper class" of Christians that would read the scriptures to the audience in a language that the audience did not understand.  Even today I have spoken to so many people who attend schools, upper and lower education, of certain denominations, and when they ask a biblical question regarding WHY their denomination does something the way that it does, they are told that they are not to question such things.  But I digress, and I apologize fot the opinionated aside.

This thread is now about Colin.

Who is Colin Michael?
I still don't know 

Nobody of current importance.  The Buckler of our members list.

He liked Bob Dylan. Therefore, this thread is about Bob Dylan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FISHEO3gsM

Ok, I got what gnosticism is (even though I'm under 15 years of age) and you guys did a very well job of explaining. In a side note on the devotional, it gave me the reference to go to a reference in Revelation. What I'm wondering is how this is linked to Revelation something where a woman gives birth do a child and god takes the child into heaven before it can be eaten by a dragon.