Who is the God of Gnosticism?

the Monad
In many Gnostic systems, God is known as the Monad, the One. God is the high source of the pleroma, the region of light. The various emanations of God are called æons.

What is the main idea of Gnosticism?

Gnosticism is the belief that human beings contain a piece of God (the highest good or a divine spark) within themselves, which has fallen from the immaterial world into the bodies of humans. All physical matter is subject to decay, rotting, and death.

Is the Monad a God?

150–210) used the term Monad to mean the highest god that created lesser gods, or elements (similar to Aeons). It is he who exists as God and Father of everything, the invisible One who is above everything, who exists as incorruption, which is in the pure light into which no eye can look.

Are there modern day Gnostics?

The Mandaeans are an ancient Gnostic ethnoreligious group that have survived and are found today in Iran, Iraq and diaspora communities in North America, Western Europe and Australia. In this period there was also the revival of a Gnostic religious movement in France.

Are there any Gnostics left?

Who are gnostics today?

Mandeans are the only surviving traditional Gnostics, with no more than 20,000 adherents living in southern Iraq and south-western Iran.

What are the Gnostic writings?

The Gnostic writings are a series of writings that were writen in secret to people. The gnostics reliegion is based on the text and the “secrets” that have been passed on throught the generations. Are these gnostic writings authentic, i’m not sure if we will every be able to find out the real truth.

Are the Gnostic Gospels considered the inspired Word of God?

In fact, the Gnostic gospels were never seriously considered to be inspired, and the question of what books belonged in the New Testament (“canon”) was largely settled in the second century AD, long before the Council of Nicea in 325 AD or the existence of the Catholic Church as such.

What are the Apocrypha and the Gnostic Gospels?

The term “apocrypha” does not only apply to those books which are between the Old and New Testaments. There is another group of books, written after the New Testament was completed, that carry that title. They are called the Gnostic gospels or sometimes the New Testament Apocrypha .

What are Gnostic Gospels?

The Gnostic Gospels are a collection of about fifty-two texts supposedly based upon the ancient wisdom teachings of several prophets and spiritual leaders including Jesus, written from the 2nd to the 4th century AD -though the sayings of the Gospel of Thomas , compiled circa 140, may include some traditions even older than the gospels of the New