You don't know what you're talking about. The Bible does reject the material world. But it doesn't say it's evil. The Gnostics believed in the concept of asceticism, where you reject comforts to become "more spiritual". Yeah, it's a bunch of hippie cult mumbo jumbo. They forbade marriage, sex of any kind even between married people, and forbid consumption of foods like meat.
The Gnostics that specifically forbade meat consumption were called Encratites, specifically rebuked by Paul in 1 Timothy 4. Jesus Himself ate fish often and the Bible is littered with meat consumption in both testaments. In fact, the Bible directly encourages consumption of many different kinds of foods to do this in memory of Jesus or even for the hell of it to enjoy yourself like Ecclesiastes. This is one of many examples of Gnostic beliefs flatly bring rejected by true Christian teachings. Gnostics literally believed that humans are trapped in evil bodies and the only way to free themselves was to use their fuckin idiotic "secret" knowledge. That sounds pretty damn insane. They also denied the bodily resurrection of Jesus because it would contradict their insane beliefs.
"used to forbid laity from even reading the bible"
No they fucking didn't. Bibles weren't even available widespread until the invention of the printing press in the 1450s and even then the prot reformation is right around the corner. Before that, Bibles were rare and like gold thus only used by priests, but even then the Latin Vulgate could be read by basically anyone. Unauthorized translations were also forbidden because people would sneak their own beliefs in there Gnostic style. The church did encourage people only to read the Bible with an authority to guide them, so, HYPOTHETICALLY, you don't end up with people falling for Gnostic nonsense or creating 30,000 Christian churches and counting. The scriptures warn about this schism in the church and personal interpretation, not only in Paul's letters (1 Corinthians 1) but also Peter's (2 Peter 1:20).
"Because you cannot both “serve God” and have a family? But they’re not batshit?"
That literally comes from the Bible homie. 1 Corinthians 7. Marriage is literally one of the sacraments in the Catholic church for non priests/nuns/bishops/monks. Even deacons can be married.
Put aside your hatred of Catholics for 5 fuckin seconds and actually do some real research on what Gnostics believed, they were nuts and their beliefs contradicted Jesus's teachings.
You don't know what you're talking about. The Bible does reject the material world. But it doesn't say it's evil. The Gnostics believed in the concept of asceticism, where you reject comforts to become "more spiritual". Yeah, it's a bunch of hippie cult mumbo jumbo. They forbade marriage, sex of any kind even between married people, and forbid consumption of foods like meat.
The Gnostics that specifically forbade meat consumption were called Encratites, specifically rebuked by Paul in 1 Timothy 4. Jesus Himself ate fish often and the Bible is littered with meat consumption in both testaments. In fact, the Bible directly encourages consumption of many different kinds of foods to do this in memory of Jesus or even for the hell of it to enjoy yourself like Ecclesiastes. This is one of many examples of Gnostic beliefs flatly bring rejected by true Christian teachings. Gnostics literally believed that humans are trapped in evil bodies and the only way to free themselves was to use their fuckin idiotic "secret" knowledge. That sounds pretty damn insane. They also denied the bodily resurrection of Jesus because it would contradict their insane beliefs.
"used to forbid laity from even reading the bible"
No they fucking didn't. Bibles weren't even available widespread until the invention of the printing press in the 1450s and even then the prot reformation is right around the corner. Before that, Bibles were rare and like gold thus only used by priests, but even then the Latin Vulgate could be read by basically anyone. Unauthorized translations were also forbidden because people would sneak their own beliefs in there Gnostic style. The church did encourage people only to read the Bible with an authority to guide them, so, HYPOTHETICALLY, you don't end up with people falling for Gnostic nonsense or creating 30,000 Christian churches and counting. The scriptures warn about this schism in the church and personal interpretation, not only in Paul's letters (1 Corinthians 1) but also Peter's (2 Peter 1:20).
"Because you cannot both “serve God” and have a family? But they’re not batshit?"
That literally comes from the Bible homie. 1 Corinthians 7. Marriage is literally one of the sacraments in the Catholic church for non priests/nuns/bishops/monks. Even deacons can be married.
Put aside your hatred of Catholics for 5 fuckin seconds and actually do some real research on what Gnostics believed, they were nuts and their beliefs contradicted Jesus's teachings.
Nice essay. It’d be a shame if I actually read all that gobbledygook.
Classy.
Enjoy your ignorance since you can't be bothered to learn.
Maybe you should go to patriots.win, that's really more what they're into.
Sure thing teach. Go join the union and get paid to be stupid instead of wasting all your genius on me.
It's not genius it's just common knowledge you can't be bothered to research.