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Eric Voegelin wrote a short essay called "Science, Politics, and Gnosticism" describing the nature of gnostic movements, and how modern ideologies such as Communism or Positivism were shaped by this inherent "gnostic thought." Voegelin argues that the "order of being," i.e. the inherent structure of reality, is insufficient to the needs of the alienated gnostic.
>If man is to be delivered from the world, the possibility of deliverance must first be established in the order of being.
>However, the gnostic movement of the spirit does not lead to the erotic opening of the soul, but rather to the deepest reach of persistence in the deception, where revolt against God is revealed to be its motive and purpose.
While Voegelin himself was a Christian, the understanding that the gnostic wanted to "revolt" against "God," or in other words objective reality, is fundamental to understanding why older Christian churches seem Satanic.
Paul himself said that the god of this world has blinded men to Christianity.
>The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
But why? Because the truth is that everything that you know about Satan, about the darkness of the intellect that men face, about the very nature of power and how might makes right, all of that is the true reality, that *is* God. To revolt against God, my friend, is to assert that the world will change because of a new divine figure who will redeem it. That somehow the world was perfect in some earlier form, and that the world has been informed of its imminent change. While the nature of these gnostic movements is to liberate men from the bonds that institutions create–hierarchy, structure, laws, and alienation–even the Church, the organization Jesus was sent to save the world by an alien, unknown God through, would eventually become a worldly institution.
Eric Voegelin wrote a short essay called "Science, Politics, and Gnosticism" describing the nature of gnostic movements, and how modern ideologies such as Communism or Positivism were shaped by this inherent "gnostic thought." Voegelin argues that the "order of being," i.e. the inherent structure of reality, is insufficient to the needs of the alienated gnostic.
>If man is to be delivered from the world, the possibility of deliverance must first be established in the order of being.
>However, the gnostic movement of the spirit does not lead to the erotic opening of the soul, but rather to the deepest reach of persistence in the deception, where revolt against God is revealed to be its motive and purpose.
While Voegelin himself was a Christian, the understanding that the gnostic wanted to "revolt" against "God," or in other words objective reality, is fundamental to understanding why older Christian churches seem Satanic.
Paul himself said that the god of this world has blinded men to Christianity.
>The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
But why? Because the truth is that everything that you know about Satan, about the darkness of the intellect that men face, about the very nature of power and how might makes right, all of that is the true reality, that *is* God. To revolt against God, my friend, is to assert that the world will change because of a new divine figure who will redeem it. That somehow the world was perfect in some earlier form, and that the world has been informed of its imminent change. While the nature of these gnostic movements is to liberate men from the bonds that institutions create–hierarchy, structure, laws, and alienation–even the Church, the organization Jesus was sent to save the world by an alien, unknown God through, would eventually become a worldly institution.
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