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Today, Gnosticism still exists in small, isolated communities throughout the world.
Today, Gnosticism still exists in small, isolated communities throughout the world.
==Gnostic Groups==
Marcion's teaching was marked by a fundamental dualism that "looks like a combination of Christianity and Syrian gnosis". Marcion distinguished between the ''highest God'' (the merciful father revealed in Jesus Christ) and but just ''cruel God'' (the Creator and Lawgiver revealed in the Old Testament.) He regarded matter as evil, denied the resurrection of body, advocated a strict asceticism, and held to a [[Docetism|docetic]] Christology. Marcion's dualism led him to make a complete disjunction between law and gospel and entitled rejecting the Old Testament in its entirety and as well those New Testament writings he judged to be infected by "the Judaizing" error. The Marcionite '[[canon]]' consisted of the ten letters of the "Apostle" - the [[Saint Paul|Pauline]] corpus minus the Pastoral Epistles - and the "Gospel" - an edited version of [[Luke]].<ref>{{cite book
|author=David G. Dunbar et al.
|title=Hermeneutics, Authority, and Canon
|editor=D.A. Carson and J.D. Woodbridge
|publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers
|year=1986 (Zondervan), 2005
|location=Eugene, Oregon
|chapter=Nine: The Biblical Canon
|pages=331
|url=http://books.google.no/books?id=XHoFAQAACAAJ&dq=Carson+Hermeneutics,+Authority+and+Canon&hl=en&sa=X&ei=kuGLUJb3AouL4gSF0IGoDg&redir_esc=y
|isbn=1-59752-118-3
}}</ref>
==Gnosticism Today==
Although there are no explicit declarations of any direct connections, it is still of great curiosity to find parallels of gnostic attitudes and traits in modern [[history]]:
*Rejection of Old Testament and manipulating (editing) the [[Scripture]] by [[Nazism|Nazists]] resulting in dejudaized version of the New Testament (NT), titled ''Die Botschaft Gottes'' (The Message of God)<ref>{{cite web
|title=Did Hitler rewrite the Bible?
|author=Russell Grigg
|publisher=Creation Ministries International
|url=http://creation.com/hitler-bible
|accessdate=2012-10-27}}</ref>. Wilhelm Busch, pastor contemporary to era of Nazism in [[Germany]], witnessed:<ref>{{cite web
|title=Kritik ohne Kenntnis? (Busch)
|publisher=Christlichen Medienverbreitungsmission
|date= 1. October 2009
|url=http://www.cmvm.de/9725-kritik-ohne-kenntnis-busch
|quote=Wilhelm Busch erzählt: Als Hitler um die Macht kämpfte, veröffentlichte er ein Parteiprogramm. In dem stand als Punkt 24: “Wir sind für positives Christentum.” Viele treue Christen sind darauf hereingefallen.
Als aber Hitler an der Macht war, erfuhr man, was viele vorausgesehen hatten: Positives Christentum ist dasselbe wie Nationalsozialismus.
Zu gleicher Zeit begann der Kampf gegen die Bibel. Namentlich das Alte Testament wurde unter Trommelfeuer genommen. Überall konnte man hören und lesen: Nun ja, das Neue Testament könne man noch einige Zeit gelten lassen; denn da werde der Gott der Liebe gelehrt. Nur die Briefe des Juden Paulus müsse man ausmerzen. In denen sei der Geist des Alten Testaments zu spüren. Das Alte Testament aber – oh, das sei ein fürchterliches Buch, ein schmutziges Buch, ein grauenvolles Buch! Da rede der jüdisch-syrische Wüsten-Rache-Gott.
|language=German
|acessdate=2012-10-27}}</ref>
''When Hitler was fighting for power, he published a program of his Nazi Party. There, in the article 24, it was declared: "We are all for ‘’positive Christianity’’." Many genuine Christians got hooked for it.
But when Hitler finally had acquired the full power in the country, it was suddenly disclosed what many had overlooked: The Positive Christianity has been just disguised Nazism.
At the same time, the fight against the Bible triggered its ramp. Especially the Old Testament was taken under the heavy fire. Everywhere you could hear and read: Well, the New Testament can be allowed to circulate for some time, because the teaching there in is about the God of love. Just one thing, the letters of Jew Paul must be eliminated from there, they smack too much of the Spirit of the Old Testament. As for the Old Testament itself - oh, that’s a terrible book, a dirty book, a horrifying book! There in, a voice of the Judeo-Syrian God of desert and revenge can be heard.''
*Objections to Old Testament by [[New Atheism]] on the grounds that it makes references to ''cruel God the Creator''; [[Richard Dawkins]] in his [[The God Delusion]] (2006) wrote (p.31):
''"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."''{{#tag:ref|cf."''To the faithful you show yourself faithful, to the blameless you show yourself blameless, to the pure you show yourself pure, but to the devious you show yourself shrewd.''" [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=%202%20Samuel%2022:26-27&version=NIV Bible, 2 Samuel 22: 26-27 (NIV)]|group=note}}
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