Crossword-Solution: GNOSTICS
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Ancient spiritual groups | 1 answer |
| Ancient theists who called God the "Monad" | 1 answer |
| Believers in salvation by knowledge | 1 answer |
| Early Christians. | 2 answers |
| Early mystics | 2 answers |
| Druid or Shaman | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GNOSTICS (5)
The Gnostics thought the stars spiritual beings governed by angels, and appointed not to cause earthly events but to indicate them.
The sacred character of this reptile among the Gnostics is shown by the accounts given of their religious rites and ceremonies.
From its supposed imperfections, the Gnostics as hastily inferred that it never was instituted by the wisdom of the Deity.
The Mosaic account of the creation and fall of man was treated with profane derision by the Gnostics, who would not listen with patience to the repose of the Deity after six days’ labor, to the rib of Adam, the garden of Eden, the trees of life and of knowledge, the speaking serpent, the forbidden fruit, and the condemnation pronounced against human kind for the venial offence of their first progenitors.
The most learned of the fathers, by a very singular condescension, have imprudently admitted the sophistry of the Gnostics.
Quotes with GNOSTICS (3)
Spontaneously, without any theological training, I, a child, grasped the incompatibility of God and shit and thus came to question the basic thesis of Christian anthropology, namely that man was created in God's image. Either/or: either man was created in God's image - and has intestines! - or God lacks intestines and man is not like him. The ancient Gnostics felt as I did at the age of five. In the second century, the Great Gnostic master Valentinus resolved the damnable dil…
So they trust in the deity of the Old Testament, an incontinent dotard who soiled Himself and the universe with his corruption, a low-budget divinity passing itself off as the genuine article. (Ask the Gnostics.) They trust in Jesus Christ, a historical cipher stitched together like Frankenstein's monster out of parts robbed from the graves of messiahs dead and buried - a savior on a stick. They trust in the virgin-pimping Allah and his Drum Major Mohammed, a prophet-come-lat…
When exactly did this all change, and what were the social and theological factors that led to the change? The answer seems to be in the second century and: (1) because of the consolidation of ecclesial power in the hands of monarchial bishops and others; (2) in response to the rise of heretical movements such as the Gnostics; (3) in regard to the social context of the Lord’s Supper, namely, the agape, or thanksgiving, meal, due to the rise to prominence of asceticism in the …
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