This is what the early church fathers were fighting so hard against and why they started to say,

hey, wait a minute, no, that's not what we believe. No, that's not who Jesus is. No, that's not the truth.

We're not talking about that here. Let's look back at what the gospel say. Let's look back at these epistles.

Let's look back at the Old Testament as evidence.

Hi friends, a little note before this episode.

I am sick and so are all of my kids.

And so in this episode, I'm going to sound a little bit stuffy, maybe a little bit rough

here and there.

I can tell you I look a little rough too.

So thanks for your patience with the

sound and with my voice on this episode. And hopefully you can still receive some great takeaways.

Hi, friends, and welcome back to Verity Podcast. I'm Felicia Masonheimer, your host and the founder

of every woman a theologian, the ministry and organization that supports Verity Podcast.

We have just started a new series on false

teachings in the church, historical false teachings that are re-emerging and false teachings that are

in operation today. And today we're going to be talking about Gnosticism. Now you may have heard of

Gnosticism if you've ever done any study of early church history.

It's a fascinating study because it was the predominant false teaching at the time that the

early church was coming together and expanding into Gentile or non-Jewish areas.

And so as Christianity was expanding, there was this equal and opposite reaction or

ideological shift and growth in the Gnostic direction. Now we could talk in depth about

all of the things that were debated and studied and talked about by the early church fathers.

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