A wise man is hungry for truth, while the mocker feeds on trash.
Proverbs 15:14 (Living Bible)
It never fails to puzzle me about how people who never spend time reading the Bible and have little (if any) knowledge about -- these same people are so quick to read, study, and talk about all these "lost" books that keep popping up. They won't spend a minute to read a chapter out of the Bible, but they will flock to read "the gospel of" Thomas, Judas, Mary, and any other extra-biblical twaddle they can get their hands on.
Gnosticism isn't anything new. It's roots date back to the book of acts when the Greeks were being introduced to the Gospel. The apostle John dedicated most of his writing to countering the mixing of Greek philosophy with Christianity.
The gnostic writings were written some 300 years after the time of Jesus and, unlike the Gospels, these books were not written by anyone with firsthand knowledge of Jesus. Ever since, they have cropped up from time to time. For a short time they become popular, sell a bunch of books, magazines and videos and then (because it is false and empty) it falls into obscurity again to wait for the next generation of gullible people.
In their wake, they plant seeds of doubt and unbelief in the hearts of those who are unestablished in God's Word and further harden the hearts of those who are looking for any excuse not to believe.
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
2 Timothy 4:3-4 (KJV)
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Itching Ears
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It's interesting to note that the world has a deep inner longing to somehow justify its state. It really is no different than the flesh which constantly seeks the path of least resistance and tries to satisfy the soul of its intentions with rash, convenient justifications that rarely have any real correlation with the truth.
The appeal of gnosticism must be the same spiritualization that goes on in many churches across America today. It's so much easier to explain a weak and powerless Christian life here on earth by explaining that we must relegate all difficult expectations to a fantasy world that we will never experience until we die. It is the kiss of death that the enemy uses against most of the people who want to be spiritual in any sort of way.
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