Answer ANY of my (or our) qestions, rebut ANY of my rebuttals, cite ANY sources of his claims, defend ANY of his assertions when questioned. Basically he is like a DEMOCRAT: Make claims and double down instead of supporting.
If this guy can question God's Word, I can certainly question his STRANGE TEACHINGS.
Address the facts, LBF. Do your ideas stand a chance???
Okay fine, now go study gnosis from all angles and prove him right or wrong.
How do you study gnosis?
There are limited starting positions when it comes to metaphysics and epistemology and I already know what they are. He only needs to state which one are his and how they relate together in a coherent and logically consistent worldview that can explain and justify fundamental concepts like truth, meaning, laws of logic, morality, knowledge, etc.
Gnosis as a subject is fairly extensive. One might start by researching the community of Qumram, though it exists as principles, it is variously practiced and understood culturally and historically. There are several excellent books on the subject. The 'debate' between gnostic, agnostic and 'the followers of the Lie' was won by murder and deception to create an all-encompassing Roman (catholic means 'universal') religion. The study of gnosis should include spelling and counting as its principles founded both alphabets and numeral systems. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Page is a good source for background and history.
For a clue as to how far back and how deep the understanding goes, take a hard look at this link's information as 'proof'.
Remember that this information, like all deep subjects, is not for the pretender or faint-hearted researcher. It can and has been misused, which is exactly the case with the cabal who controls by their twisted use of the secrets it contains. This is 'two on a high place' with one ruling by it, and another finding the chrism/christ by it. Leave the 99 to find the One. Deep dive finds the pearl.
https://kupdf.net/download/jesus-christ-sun-of-god-ancient-cosmology-and-early-christian-symbolism-by-david-r-fideler-ocr_58a100e36454a7335db1eb87_pdf
First off, there's no such a thing as a unified gnostic doctrine. It's relativistic. I may be gnostic and believe in things that contradict other gnostics' beliefs. So who's right, what is the correct gnosticism and how is this determined?
Second, why should one trust the Gnostic gospels over the Church teachings? How do you determine what gospels are true and what's your criteria? You ignored my question about how do you justify that knowledge at all. Gnosticism makes countless claims about the nature of our world and its history and I want to know how are they justified?
How has the hidden knowledge you base your worldview on been preserved through the centuries? And even if we assume it was true, what makes you think it hasn't been tampered with by its enemies (the RCC) who pretty much ruled the world until recently?
Unless you deep dive in sewers. You'll only find crap then.
I know the book. You've linked it before and I took a look. It's a total mess of word-concept fallacy and wild interpretations of what the Christianity represents.
Again, gnostics have been around for 2000 years and I'd rather read what OG gnostics like Simon Magus, Valentinus, Marcion and Mani had to say and not people centuries later. If you truly cared for the truth, you'd read how their arguments were defeated by their contemporaries - the Early Church Fathers. It's pointless to rehash a 2000 year old debate.
The point is I don't need to study all of gnosticism to know it's false. I can refute it simply by disproving it's foundational principles like dualism.
Here's an example of a quick refutation of gnosticism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BgDwGHmKc4
God is the Unified Field. Gnosis is doctrine.
You make my point exactly. It HAS been tampered with. By whom and how? Thats YOUR job to find out now that you've been redpilled. But you can't because you 'took a look' and it's 'a total mess'.
Meaning you are a fool. I'm finished here. Go back to Sunday School and have a good day.