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→Gnostic Manuscripts: Adding section on fundamentals
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}}</ref> Those Gnostic heretical texts where [[Christ]] is conceived as a teacher and revealer of mysterious ''gnosis'', i.e. a secret knowledge aiming to 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"/>:
}}</ref> Those Gnostic heretical texts where [[Christ]] is conceived as a teacher and revealer of mysterious ''gnosis'', i.e. a secret knowledge aiming to 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 http://www.conservapedia.com/skins/common/images/button_bold.pngtexts 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 common factor is imposing a foreign system on the biblical data{{#tag:ref|cf. [[Syncretism]]|group=note}}
*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
*Preaching the pseudo-Christianity in the form of esoteric or secret knowledge, obsession with mysterious and interest in secret doctrines and rites
==The Fundamentals and Traits of Gnostic Doctrine==
*'''Pleroma:''' (in Greek, meaning the 'Fulness'); the divine sphere.
*'''Aeons:''' divine powers arranged into different Gnostic systems with a great deal of variety in details depending on teaching of particular Gnostic school. A sort of precosmic community of divine beings.
*'''Godhead:''' a highest God who within himself comprises several aeons.
*'''Gnosis:''' (in greek); a certain secret knowledge subject of central belief of Gnosticism by the possession of which one could be saved from material thus evil world created in despair by mistake by one of aeons who, for some reason, typically due to the primordial catastrophe, fell out from the devine sphere (Pleroma).
==Gnostic Elitism==
==Gnostic Elitism==