Gnosticism (noun):
The imposition of human philosophy above the Word of God, leading to an emphasis on knowledge and reason over Faith. This inevitably results in the creation of artificial religions, fake religions, which twist Christianity's true message.
With today's installment in the Evaluating Gnosticism series, I really could have gone with "silly goofballs trying to get Christians believing in cringey stuff." Would have gotten the same point across.
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Deuteronomy 18 demands that you test the claims of someone claiming to be a prophet that they make about future events
This demands testing the scriptures with your five senses involving information that is not found in the scripture to see if it matches information found in the scripture
Scripture alone is not supported in the Bible
The first to present his case seems right until another comes along and questions him - Proverbs
Church Instituitions are not infallible
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Scripture would demand that people reject people as not being prophets if they said something would come to pass in the name of God & the event did not come to pass
Scripture demands we check with sources outside of scripture to test if the people claimed to be prophets really had the words they said would come to pass in the name of God happen
Hypothetically if the words of a alleged prophet in the Bible did not come to pass
Then Deuterinomy 18 would demand we reject them
The only thing that our minds can do in terms of "testing" is verifying what Scripture says before submitting oneself to it. For instance, Scripture says Egypt was a place, and I can do the research to find out that Egypt, in fact, existed during the time Exodus was written. But during such time we must *still* subordinate our reason, sense, and traditions to the plain meaning of the Word.