Tag Archives: Gnosticism

May 17 2022

Spirit, Soul and Body: ONE INTEGRATED Being: 'May 16, 2022'

In some Evangelical churches and in many Charismatic churches, Paul’s use of spirit, soul and body in 1 Thess. 5:23 is understood as a hierarchy of being and a hierarchy of value. This is essentially a Gnostic interpretation that seriously misunderstands Paul’s fluid and interchangeable use of those terms.

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Nov 9 2020

Gnostic Evangelical Christianity: 'Monday Morning Musings - November 9, 2020'

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“You are a spirit, who has a soul, and lives in a body.” Have you ever heard that? ” Jesus was ‘”God in a zipper-suit.” Have you ever heard that? I have heard both, hundreds of times growing up in evangelical/Charismatic churches. They are 100% Gnostic; 100% mishandling of 1 Thess. 5:23 and in my experience, common beliefs among thousands of poorly taught Evangelical believers.

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Oct 19 2020

Gnostic Christianity: 'Monday Morning Musings October 19, 2020'

The incarnation of Jesus–him taking on the totality of what it means to be human-body, soul, and spirit–is a statement about the value of the realm of time and space–the created order. The incarnation has given value to and sanctified ALL of the created order. There are some prevalent strains of Western Protestantism that are more Gnostic in their belief systems than biblical, though they might aggressively deny it. Over-emphasis on the “spirit realm” and defining “spiritual reality” by denigrating or devaluing the material realm, including or mortal bodies, is 100% Gnostic, no matter how much Bible veneer it may have.

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Oct 18 2011

Lost and Crazy in “Christian-land”

I recently finished a consulting interaction with someone and his “organization,”   trying to help him sort out some issues and relationships within his “family” association.  In the course of dialog and discussion trying to find common ground of doctrinal agreement, the phrase “Jesus is Lord” was considered:

– too “creedal”
– too “controlling”
– too “doctrinal”
– too “limiting”
– too “controversial”
– too “binding”
– too “judgmental”
– too “authoritarian”

This was among confessing “mature?” “believers,””ministers,” and “pastors.”

Begs the question: Confessing what?

Brothers and sisters, I am telling you, it is a wholesale trainwreck out there in “Christian-land.” There is such a reaction to the teaching of sound, authoritative doctrine, from individuals called and gifted to do so, and to submit to those doctrines, that this is the place we have come to. Rabid, rampant, subjectivism reigns. God help us.

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