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Generally, Gnostics believed that the ''Abrahamic God'' was in fact two separate and independent entities. They believed that the ''Demiurge'' was the God of the Israelites and the Old Testament. He created the world and man imperfectly, and was malevolent. This belief largely stemmed from accounts of the highly interventionist ''God in the Old Testament'' directly and indirectly killing large numbers of people. The Gnostics believed that the second god was a good, benevolent god who is embodied in ''Jesus Christ''. Jesus Christ came to save humanity from sin and suffering, the evils of the material world.

Generally, Gnostics believed that the ''Abrahamic God'' was in fact two separate and independent entities. They believed that the ''Demiurge'' was the God of the Israelites and the Old Testament. He created the world and man imperfectly, and was malevolent. This belief largely stemmed from accounts of the highly interventionist ''God in the Old Testament'' directly and indirectly killing large numbers of people. The Gnostics believed that the second god was a good, benevolent god who is embodied in ''Jesus Christ''. Jesus Christ came to save humanity from sin and suffering, the evils of the material world.

Today, Gnosticism still exists in small, isolated communities throughout the world.

Today, Gnostic traits and Gnostic culture are declared to be a present-day phenomena, inherent in, for example, the [[Anthropological Revolution]].<ref name="Lions">{{cite book

|quote=}}</ref> M.A. Smith claims that similarities between Gnostic heresies and some modern cults might be noted at the very minimum in cases of [[Mormonism]] (having secret writing in addition to the Bible) and [[Jehovah's Witnesses]] (special and very strange interpretations of the actual Scriptures based on a non-biblical system).

==Gnostic Manuscripts==

==Gnostic Manuscripts==