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I am interested in learning more about Gnosticism but don’t know where to start. I now almost nothing about it but the little I have heard sounds interesting. I don’t know if you can help but can you get me started in the right direction?
Gnosticism is not a single belief, but rather an approach to how to arrive at truth. There are a number of different heretical or erroneous theologies which arise from Gnostic teaching. Gnosticism basically just means hidden teachings and thus the belief that certain people have hidden key knowledge about God that no one else has.
Here are some starting points:
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/186-gnosticism
http://www.carm.org/heresy/gnosticism.htm
http://www.religioustolerance.org/gnostic.htm
http://www.religioustolerance.org/gnostic1.htm
And on this page, about one third of the way down, you will find a list of resources:
http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/topic/cultsheresy.html
I hope that this helps.
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