Gnostic Christianity

About this episode

Cyd Ropp discusses the relationship between Gnosticism and Christianity, arguing that Christian Gnosticism represents true Christianity.

Hello and welcome back to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Yesterday, my Hindi tech services guy asked me whether or not Gnosis is Christian. It seems like it should be a simple question. Is Gnosticism Christian? I explained to him that I certainly think that Christian Gnosticism is Christian, fully. And in fact, I believe it’s true Christianity—that Jesus was Gnostic, that John the Baptist was Gnostic. But what does that mean? Most of the Christians, pretty much all of the Christians, completely reject Gnosticism as evil, as misleading, as demonic. So that would put me in the camp of being a false teacher or a false witness, which saddens me greatly because I love Jesus. I’ve been a follower of Jesus for 70 years. And I believe that when Jesus said, I and my Father are one, if you have seen me, you have seen my Father , that Jesus was speaking about what we call the Gnostic God, the God Above All Gods, the Father in heaven, the preexistent primordial form, the one consciousness that did beget the only begotten Son. I explained to my Hindi friend that in Hinduism, many gods are accepted. In India, people pray and follow many different gods…

People in this episode

Host: Cyd Ropp

Topics covered

• Gnosticism
• Christianity
• spirituality
• religion
• self-improvement

Keywords

• Gnosticism
• Christianity
• Jesus
• spirituality
• Hinduism

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hinduism

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