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}}</ref> Those Gnostic heretical texts where [[Christ]] is conceived as a teacher and revealer of special ''gnosis'' exhibit following characteristics in contrast to [[canon|canonical]] [[Gospels]]<ref name="Skarsaune"/>:
}}</ref> Those Gnostic heretical texts where [[Christ]] is conceived as a teacher and revealer of mysterious ''gnosis'', i.e. a secret knowledge aiming so save people from ignorance and material world rather than sin, exhibit following characteristics in contrast to [[canon|canonical]] [[Gospels]]<ref name="Skarsaune"/><ref name="Smith"/>:
*The texts contain only alleged sayings of Jesus often twisted so as to express the Gnostic theology
*The texts contain only alleged sayings of Jesus often twisted so as to express the Gnostic theology
*Jesus transmits these isolated sayings without being placed in any role within Israel's history such as Roman occupation or without any relation to it
*Jesus transmits these isolated sayings without being placed in any role within Israel's history such as Roman occupation or without any relation to it
*The sayings of Jesus have no narrative or situational framework, there is no mention of any circumstances, topographical facts or historical events
*The sayings of Jesus have no narrative or situational framework, there is no mention of any circumstances, topographical facts or historical events
*The language of the [[New Testament]] survives, but the words used are merely connotation-words, having ascribed a totally different meaning
*If there are the [[New Testament]] allusions, there is never an actual quotation
*Tampering with [[New Testament]], for example, the Jesus' cry from the cross was rewritten as "''My power, my power, why have you left me?''"
*The whole system often appears to be a game of numerology, using the [[New Testament]] as the quarry for the numbers
*The overwhelming impression of most Gnostic works is vagueness, word-spinning and tedium
*The common factor is imposing a foreign system on the biblical data{{#tag:ref|cf. [[Syncretism]]|group=note}}
*Preaching the pseudo-Christianity in the form of esoteric or secret knowledge, obsession with mysterious and interest in secret doctrines and rites
==Gnostic Elitism==
==Gnostic Elitism==