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	Gnosticism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gnosticism was perceived as an attempt to transform Christianity into a religious philosophy and to replace faith in the mysteries of revelation by philosophical explanations.
		Gnostics classified people according to three categories: (1) gnostics, or those certain of salvation, because they were under the influence of the spirit (pneumatikoi); (2) those not fully gnostics, but capable of salvation through knowledge (psychikoi); and (3) those so dominated by matter that they were beyond salvation (hylikoi).
		Gnosticism is an esoteric religious movement that flourished during the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD and presented a major challenge to orthodox Christianity.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txn/gnostici.htm (3815 words)

	Gnosticism and the New Testament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Paul also claims to know someone who ascended as far as the third heaven, a principle which in mystery religions represented the degree of initiation achieved (for example, in the Mithras version there were 7 heavens, one for each of the 5 known planets, the sun, and the moon).
		Gnostics also took death to be symbolic for the death of the part of a person tied to the demiurge, and the consequential resurrection as a new entirely spiritual being, understanding resurrection as an awakening of spiritual enlightenment.
		Paul also appears to many scholars to exhibit a strong distaste for sexuality of any kind, supporting the principle of celibacy, which gnostics interpreted as due to the idea of the world as evil, though non-gnostics took it to be merely a rigid and strict adherence to the Old Testament.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gnosticism_and_the_New_Testament (5091 words)

	paul's anti law bias...revealed in detail
		Paul identifies this descending and dying savior with the Messiah of the Jews thus we have the tie in with Judaism.
		Paul had to cope with this "saved" libertinism, and could only use the methods of moral exhortation that were supposed to have been made obsolete by faith and the transition from "works" to "grace." The epistle to Romans is full of such exhortation's against such sin and conduct.
		Paul, by adopting the Gnostic myth of the descending savior, produced doctrines typical of Gnosticism in his dualism, his anti-Jewish use of the Jewish scripture and his antinomianism, though in each case, the more extreme forms of Gnosticism are excluded by Paul's acceptance of the Hebrew Bible as the word of God.
	paulproblem.faithweb.com /paul_antinomianism.htm (7799 words)

	Gnosticism: ancient and modern (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gnosticism is not factual, intellectual, rational knowledge, such as is involved in mathematics and physics; that would have been more accurately represented by the Greek world "episteme.
		Gnostics believe that they have secret knowledge about God, humanity and the rest of the universe of which the general population was unaware.
		Its beliefs are currently experiencing a rebirth throughout the world, triggered in part by the discovery of an ancient Gnostic library at Nag Hammadi, Egypt in the 1940s, and the finding of the Gospel of Judas at El Minya, Egypt, in the 1970s.
	www.religioustolerance.org /gnostic.htm (432 words)

	Gnosticism and the Struggle for the World's Soul
		It is only a new way of practicing Gnosticism — that attitude of the spirit that, in the name of a profound knowledge of God, results in distorting his word and replacing it with purely human words.
		The Gnostic are the Masons, the New Agers, the Raelians.
		Gnosticism is a man-made self-centered philosophy — a "monologue" in which man divinizes himself and fails in the attempt.
	catholiceducation.org /articles/civilization/cc0130.html (3210 words)

	Paul a Gnostic?
		When Paul says the Son was revealed "in" him it means no more than that it was a personal revelation which no one else was privy to -- and this praxis existed in the OT as well with the prophets.
		Paul shows pagan/Gnostic influences, for he "writes in Greek...quotes only from the Greek version of the Old Testament [and] His ministry is to Pagan cities dominated by Greek culture." [FG, 162] None of these offers and indication of a GP.
		We may summarize the case for a Gnostic Paul by referring to the way FG illicitly summarize Col. 1:25-28 with the sentence, "The secret is this: Christ in you!", or that they rework 1 Cor.
	www.tektonics.org /gnostpaul.html (2712 words)

	Paul of Tarsus, Mithraism & Paul's Laws in the New Testament of the Bible
		Paul was originally a Jewish Pharisee from outside Palestine, who had heard the Christian proclamation of Jesus, found it blasphemous, and worked to oppose it with all his heart and strength, one of the first the most forceful persecutors of the new faith (Gal.
		Paul conversion an interpretation of Yeshua's death, his old Mithraistic beliefs and the Messiah/christ confusion combined to forge a new religion distinctly separate from all the various sects of Judaism.
		From Paul's letters it is clear that the Christian community of this period was deeply divided, yet this schism was not between Gnostics and Literalists, as was the case by the end of the second century.
	www.vexen.co.uk /religion/paul.html (5293 words)

	Saul (Paul) and the Hellenist Faction - Christianity Revealed - AskWhy! Publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Paul seems desperate to be seen as an orthodox Jew of a respected party, for despite the impression given in the New Testament, the Pharisees were seen throughout the Roman and the Parthian Empires as a serious and respectable religious group.
		Paul could usurp the history of the Jews to use its long tradition as prophetic of his concept of Christianity with its dying and resurrected god of the mystery religions and its heaven descended redeemer of the Gnostics.
		Paul was not humble enough and not honest enough to submit to the rigours of being a lifetime Essene and, having offended the community, he was excommunicated.
	essenes.net /m76.htm (10388 words)

	Rejection of Pascal's Wager: Opposition to Paul from the Jerusalem Church
		In conclusion, the evidence that Paul's mission faced a concerted opposition from the Jerusalem church is compelling.
		Paul's rhetorical question on why only he and Barnabas had no right to be paid, seems to sarcastically point to the opponents as being allied with the "circumcision" group of Galatians 2.
		Paul is here alluding to the food laws (their god is the belly) and circumcision (they glory in their shame).
	www.geocities.com /paulntobin/paulvpeter.html (7658 words)

	KNOWING THE GNOSTICS (This Rock: January 1996)
		Gnostics portrayed him as so ignorant that he thought he was the only God; he wasn't able to perceive the profusion of greater beings from whom he (unfortunately for them) sprang.
		Consequently Gnostics in Christian circles tended to reject the Old Testament and claim that it depicted a different God from that of the New; the Creator had to be separated from the Savior.
		Second-century Gnostics supposedly built upon this secret apostolic tradition until their work was given the coup de grâce by Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons in Gaul, in the latter part of the second century.
	www.catholic.com /thisrock/1996/9601fea1.asp (3650 words)

	Amazon.com: Paul and Hellenism: Books: Hyam Maccoby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		St Paul is traditionally thought of as a Jewish thinker, someone who was originally a Pharisee and whose ideas came out of his encounter with Jesus and a background of Judaism.
		Maccoby concludes that although Gnosticism opposed the Jewish religion, it had two characteristics which meant it was not as antisemitic as Christianity was to become.
		Paul argues that the Torah was given by angels, not God (Gal 3:19, Act 7:53, Heb 2:2), and indeed the phrase in Gal 3:19 is that the angels were the authors of the Torah, not simply the transmitters.
	www.amazon.com /Paul-Hellenism-Hyam-Maccoby/dp/1563380145 (2534 words)

	Paul's Role in Early Christianity
		Paul claims he was a Roman citizen by birth meaning his father also was a Roman citizen.
		Acts purpose is to minimize the conflict between Paul James and Peter The Laws of the sons of Noah known as theNoachim laws used by the Pharisee rabbi's to deal with relations with the Gentiles who wished to become Jews.
		Paul was then sent to Rome by Festus and his destiny is unknown the church claims he was martyred in Rome but there is no proof.
	us.geocities.com /aleph135/paul21.html (3275 words)

	Gnosticism
		R.P. Casey, "Gnosis, Gnosticism and the New Testament," W.D. Davies and D. Daube, eds., The Background of the New Testament and Its Eschatology.
		and trans., The Gnostic Treatise on Resurrection from Nag Hammadi.
		Pheme Perkins, The Gnostic Dialogue: The Early Church and the Crsis of Gnosticism.
	www.earlychurch.org.uk /gnosticism.php (1820 words)

	Gnosticism -- Early Christian Influence
		Gnosticism, a generic term for a variety of religious movements of the first centuries of the Christian era.
		Against the patristic view that Gnosticism was a Christian heresy begun by Simon Magus, many modern scholars have held that it was originally an independent movement.
		Despite its suppression by ecclesiastical authorities in the third and fourth centuries, Gnosticism continued in the guise of Manichaeism and Mandaeism and in various medieval speculative movements.
	home.sprynet.com /~eagreen/gnostic.html (497 words)

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		Contact to the instructor: Seminary Hall 4D, Phone: (973-408-)3855, E-mail: csong@drew.edu COURSE DESCRIPTION Paul the Apostle is easily the most colorful and controversial figure in earliest Christianity.
		This course attempts to analyze his contentious historical figure, appreciate and evaluate his ministry in diverse situations, and assess finally his continuing significance to the present society and ministries.
		Contribution to Class Discussion: 30% Before each class lecture, students are required to read the respective writings, including the Pauline epistle(s) as well as non-canonical and/or secondary writings.
	www.users.drew.edu /csong/PAUL-DrewDMin.doc (362 words)

	Gnosticism
		This bizarre belief system was in its infancy when Paul wrote his letters, and during the second century Gnosticism developed into a powerful offshoot of the church.
		The author is a bit overly impressed with Gnostic thinking, but he summarizes the main themes of this heresy.
		The beliefs Paul refutes in Colossians 2 represent a kind of Proto Gnosticism, which was not as developed as that revealed in the Apocryphon of John, but contains some of the same concepts.
	home.messiah.edu /~mcosby/Gnosticism.htm (1290 words)

	Pauline Studies
		Spring 2004:Crossroads of Early Christianity: The Earliest Churches in Syria and Asia Minor (RL299W/499W)
		Summer 2000: The Cities of St. Paul (on-site in Turkey)
		Summer 1999: Paul and His Writings (on-site in Greece and Turkey)
	www.jcu.edu /Bible/PAUL (87 words)

	Dennis Ronald MacDonald
		"Pseudo-Chrysostom's Panegyric to Thecla: The Heroine of The Acts of Paul in Homily and Art," co-authored with Andrew D. Scrimgeour.
		âPaulâs Farewell to the Ephesian Elders and Hectorâs Farewell to Andromache: A Strategic Imitation of Homerâs Iliad.â In Contextualizing Acts: Lukan Narrative and Greco-Roman Discourse.
		"The Shipwrecks of Odysseus and Paul." New Testament Studies45 (1999): 88-107.
	iac.cgu.edu /drm/index.html (1268 words)

	Gnostic literature books, find the lowest prices
		Gnosticism and the Early Christian World : In Honor of James M. Robinson
		There Is No Male and Female : The Fate of a Dominical Saying in Paul and Gnosticism
		The Other Bible : Jewish Pseudepigrapha, Christian Apocrypha, Gnostic Scriptures, Kabbalah, Dead Sea Scrolls
	www.allbookstores.com /Gnostic_Literature_p2sd.html (180 words)

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