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[https://www.theaquilareport.com/gnosticism-vs-christianity/ Gnosticism vs. Christianity: Six contrasts between the teachings of Gnosticism and the Christian faith, Written by Peter M. Dietsch - The Aquila Report (theaquilareport.com)]

:[https://www.theaquilareport.com/gnosticism-vs-christianity/ Gnosticism vs. Christianity: Six contrasts between the teachings of Gnosticism and the Christian faith, Written by Peter M. Dietsch - The Aquila Report (theaquilareport.com)]  

 

::—Peter Dietsch comments on a book called ''Against the Protestant Gnostics'', by Philip J. Lee, concerning the Gnostic disdain of the sacraments and the physical resurrection of the body, in which Lee shows Gnostic tendencies toward a disdain for the physical nature of things and a spiritual salvation only through a direct "personal relation with Christ" and "knowing Jesus", being taught alongside Christian orthodoxy, and how these teachings of Gnosticism have wormed their way into Christian teachings, particularly in North American Protestantism. (Compare [[sola spiritu]].)

a book called, Against the Protestant Gnostics by Philip J. Lee concerning the Gnostic disdain of the sacraments.

 

Gnostic tendencies being taught alongside Christian orthodoxy, and you may even find them in your own thinking. In fact, in the remainder of Against the Protestant Gnostics (more than 200 pages), Lee shows how these teachings of Gnosticism have wormed their way into Christian teachings, particularly in North American Protestantism.

In the sermon this past Sunday, I spoke of the danger of the encroachment of certain Gnostic beliefs upon the Church and the Christian faith. Specifically, we addressed the Gnostic tendency toward a disdain for the physical nature of things. In the sermon, I quoted from a book called, Against the Protestant Gnostics by Philip J. Lee concerning the Gnostic disdain of the sacraments.

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