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Topic: Apelles (gnostic)

	Definition of Gnosticism
		Gnostics were "people who knew", and their knowledge at once constituted them a superior class of beings, whose present and future status was essentially different from that of those who, for whatever reason, did not know.
		The Gnostics, it is true, borrowed their terminology almost entirely from existing religions, but they only used it to illustrate their great idea of the essential evil of this present existence and the duty to escape it by the help of magic spells and a superhuman Saviour.
		The Gnostics seem also to have used oil sacramentally for the healing of the sick, and even the dead were anointed by them to be rendered safe and invisible in their transit through the realms of the archons.
	www.ourladyswarriors.org /dissent/defgnost.htm (10687 words)

	Apelles, Alexandria/Egypt, Ancient Christian Church
		Apelles is first encountered as a younger man in Rome under the influence of the teacher Marcion (d.
		Apelles disagreed with the tenets of Marcion's thought, being instead convinced of the unity of the unbegotten God and of a Christ in the flesh, and was forced to leave his mentor.
		Apelles continued to give credence to the continuation of the prophetic movement, and came under the influence of "a certain Philumene," so that he "wrote a book containing her teaching, with the title Phanerôseis," to which Tertullian and others pay testimony (Lawlor 1928: 170).
	www.dacb.org /stories/egypt/apelles_.html (1686 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Apelles
		Founder of a Gnostic sect; died at an advanced age late in the second century.
		What little is known of his life is gleaned chiefly from fragments of the writings of his antagonist Rhodon, preserved by Eusebius (Hist.
		The moral character of Apelles is differently estimated according as one is influenced either by Rhodon's uncoloured picture of the aged heresiarch, or by the stories of scandals in his early life to which Tertullian, not without exaggeration, refers.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01593a.htm (193 words)

	How Christianity drew on Philo's synthesis of Judaism and Hellenism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		There can be no doubt of the fact, that the Gnosticism which has become a factor in the movement of the history of dogma, was ruled in the main by the Greek spirit, and determined by the interests and doctrines of the Greek philosophy of religion, which doubtless had already assumed a syncretistic character.
		We have accordingly to ascertain and distinguish in the prominent Gnostic schools, which, in the second century on Greek soil, became an important factor in the history of the Church, the Semitic-cosmological foundations, the Hellenic philosophic mode of thought, and the reconition of the redemption of the world by Jesus Christ.
		Secondly, Apelles' survey of the prophetic writings, the contradictions in which he - like his teacher Marcion earlier - has discovered as a 'thorn in the flesh' for any harmonizations of the Bible, is captivating.
	www.sullivan-county.com /nf0/nov_2000/philo1.htm (12684 words)

	The Two Peters
		Gnosticism absorbed a false air of Christianity and the true worship of God in spirit and truth was forced underground as a remnant of the true vine's seed.
		These Gnostics were antinomian, that is, they taught that there are no binding moral laws and that contempt for such restrictions is a prelude to liberty.
		These Gnostics believed that since we are saved by grace it does not much matter how we live, oh, they believed in doing good works but said we have no laws to obey; or by which to regulate and govern our lives.
	www.truthontheweb.org /sipeter.htm (6090 words)

	Irenaeus of Lyons
		His work is invaluable to modern scholarship in the attempt to recover the content of Gnostic teachings in the second century.
		There is also a fragment of a letter sent by Irenaeus to Pope Victor preserved in Syriac that is generally accepted as authentic.
		Go to the Early Christian Writings: New Testament, Apocrypha, Gnostics, Church Fathers homepage.
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /irenaeus.html (411 words)

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		That's not really compatible with the mythicist position, since docetism would say that the events in the NT did happen, we just don't understand the nature of the one with whom the events were concerned.
		Marcion's disciple Apelles so far modified his master's doctrine that he was willing to own that Jesus had a solid body, but denied that there had been a birth in which He had assumed it (Tert.
		It is said in closing that the "Gnostic Messiah Jesus offered defeated and dejected Jews meaning and new hope," though not a scent of evidence for any "Gnostic" flavor is provided (apparently Bananaz has not heard that the "Gnostic Jesus" thesis has been debunked; maybe he'd like to debate that as well).
	www.tektonics.org /af/bananas01.html (3041 words)

	John - A Gospel to Silence the Gnostics
		John - A Gospel to Silence the Gnostics
		The ‘gnostic language’ suggests a late date for John, as does the highly developed theology.
		Copying is freely permitted, provided credit is given to the author and no material herein is sold for profit.
	www.jesusneverexisted.com /john.htm (2878 words)

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