The New Gnosticism
November 1999
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One of the most common of ancient heresies was Gnosticism, which is still very much with us. Gnosticism held that salvation is from the material or physical world, from flesh, and it comes through knowledge.
Gnosticism was one of the earliest heresies of the church. It came in different forms and manifested itself in different strands.
In August of 1909, Sigmund Freud embarked upon a fateful journey. He along with his psychoanalytic heir apparent, Carl Gustav Jung, had been invited by G. Stanley Hall, the father of American psychology, to give a series of lectures at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Gnosticism was birthed as a pseudo-Christian heresy in the mid-first century by Simon Magus, a Samaritan sorcerer ("magus" means magician) of astonishing ability (Ac. 8:4- 24).
The Scriptures teach that God, Who created all things and Who is infinitely personal, is simultaneously transcendent (Ps. 97:9; Is. 55:8-9) and immanent (Ps. 139:7-8; Gen. 1:26- 27).