Gnosticism Strikes Back

“The church is called to preserve the Word of God, to explain it, to preach it, apply it, translate it, spread it abroad, recommend it, and defend it—in a word, to cause the thoughts of God laid down in Scripture to triumph everywhere and at all times over the thoughts of man.”

Herman Bavinck, The Wonderful Works of God

“Many Christians are becoming Gnostics without realizing it.

Falling to the primeval temptation in the garden of Eden: "You shall be as gods, knowing good and evil", they succumb to the desire for godlike powers, deciding for themselves what is good and what is evil. The error of Gnosticism is that knowledge can be obtained and used to perfect onese

The mark of a culture’s last stage is not decay but syncretism. - Arnold Toynbee