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Gnosticism Material world = evil Spiritual world = good

Gnosticism Material world = evil Spiritual world = good. God. Aeon. Aeon. Aeon. Aeon. Aeon. Aeon. Aeon. Aeon. Aeon. Aeon. Aeon. Sophia. God. Aeon. Aeon. Aeon. Aeon. Aeon. Aeon. Aeon. Aeon. Aeon. Aeon. Aeon. Sophia. God. Aeon. Aeon. Aeon. Aeon. Aeon. Aeon. Aeon.

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Gnosticism Material world = evil Spiritual world = good

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  1. Gnosticism Material world = evil Spiritual world = good

  2. God Aeon Aeon Aeon Aeon Aeon Aeon Aeon Aeon Aeon Aeon Aeon Sophia

  3. God Aeon Aeon Aeon Aeon Aeon Aeon Aeon Aeon Aeon Aeon Aeon Sophia

  4. God Aeon Aeon Aeon Aeon Aeon Aeon Aeon Aeon Aeon Aeon Aeon Demiurge

  5. Gnostics containing divine sparks wanting to return to divine realm. Salvation could be achieved by gaining appropriate knowledge (gnosis) from divine realm Knowledge brought by an aeon…

  6. Gnostic views of Christ: 1. Spiritual being who instructed disciples while masquerading as a human 2. Spiritual being temporarily inhabiting human body of Jesus

  7. Gnostic views of humanity: 1. Gnostics 2. Other Christians 3. Other humans Attitudes towards the human body in the eyes of the Gnostics and their critics

  8. Gospel of Thomas “Sayings” gospel Coptic (Nag Hammadi, 4th c.) and Greek (Oxyrhynchus, 2nd c.) versions 114 sayings of Jesus. No. 1 promising freedom from death to person who understands them By Didymos Judas Thomas, brother of Jesus?

  9. Gospel of Thomas Sayings found in synoptics (e.g. 34, 54, 73) Sayings vaguely resembling some in synoptics (e.g. 2) Sayings nothing like anything in synoptics (e.g. 11, 28, 29, 37) Symbolism of “poverty” (29), “intoxicated” (28), kingdom of heaven (3, 113)

  10. Gospel of Thomas Relation to synoptics: Did Thomas draw on synoptics? Is the Gospel of Thomas Q? Temporal relations?

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