Reverse Gnosticism

[A Random Person]

What if the gnostics denied Yeshua Bar-Yahweh's divinity instead of his humanity?

would there not be the denial of divinity today do to the lack of writings of apologists on humanity?

[Arafeel]

So what is he instead? Just a profet, a sorth of gnostic muhammed, another midel-eastern merlin with a magic book?

[Lord Grattan]

Then they would have been part of the Ebionite sect.

[Lord Grattan]

Originally Posted by Arafeel

So what is he instead? Just a profet, a sorth of gnostic muhammed, another midel-eastern merlin with a magic book?

Probably as a mortal human messianic prophet but not as divine; similar to what Muslims believe about Jesus.

[Keenir]

Originally Posted by A Random Person

What if the gnostics denied Yeshua Bar-Yahweh's divinity instead of his humanity?

that would just be one more proof that the Gnostics are evil heretics who don't truly understand God or the Faith.

[Dathi THorfinnsson]

Originally Posted by A Random Person

What if the gnostics denied Yeshua Bar-Yahweh's divinity instead of his humanity?

would there not be the denial of divinity today do to the lack of writings of apologists on humanity?

Arians denied the divinity of Christ. So do modern Jehovah's Witnesses and Unitarians.

[mrmandias]

Arians at very minimum saw Christ as semi-divine. I think they would say that they saw him as divine, just created and subordinate to the Father, who was uncreated.

[A Random Person]

Originally Posted by Dathi THorfinnsson

Arians denied the divinity of Christ. So do modern Jehovah's Witnesses and Unitarians.

but they are modern, this is probably because of so much doctrine focusing on the humanity of christ.

if there was a lot more documents on the divinity of christ i feel that it would be the humanity of christ that is more widely rejected.

i am also thinking of dan brown's the da vinci code.

[Arafeel]

Arians thought christ was the son of god, but not god born as man. This still make him divine, but not a god.

[False Dmitri]

Originally Posted by A Random Person

i am also thinking of dan brown's the da vinci code.

...According to which, the Gnostics did deny Jesus' divinity, but...

My wife and I are reading that together, and she's getting increasingly pissed off every time I mention a historical inaccuracy. Which happens approximately every other paragraph.