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NASB | John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 1:1 In the beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself. [Gen 1:1; Is 9:6] |
Subject: Does the Father have a God? |
Bible Note: simply put Gnoticism being very concerned with a reason for good and evil, believe that all matter is evil and anything spiritual is good. Gnostics believe a renegade spirit called wisdom created the material world and the body being matter (and therefore evil) has trapped pieces of the spiritual. The Gnostic believes that every person has a spark of the spiritual trapped in the body asleep and it takes a special being to come from beyond to awaken "us". This ties into 1 and 2 above in that Greek philosopher Socrates expounded on the immortality of the soul, Justin used that to try to explain the eternal life a Christian receives at the new birth. in Greek philosophy and Gnosticism, "logos" supplies ideas, the mind will discover ideas by logos. The word logos meant word, giver of light, a being able to impart knowledge, they believed that logos enabled the humans to understand reality. |