The Harvest Handbook™ of Key Bible Words New Testament by Harvest House Publishers

Author:Harvest House Publishers
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780736973045
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers

Insight

When the New Testament was being written there was a movement that we know as “Gnosticism,” which claimed to have secret “knowledge” (gnōsis) about important spiritual matters. One of the things they claimed was that physical things are bad or evil, which the church has rejected as heresy.

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“Paul’s concerns at Corinth were complex. The church was in danger of being influenced by early forms of Gnosticism, which held that individuals were saved by a secret, arcane knowledge. Others at Corinth prized intellectual sophistication and were not prepared to tolerate anything that seemed to lack this or any other mark of cultural erudition. Paul rightly rejects any such notions, insisting the Christian gospel must be taken on its own terms, even if it counters prevailing cultural notions of acceptability at Corinth. Yet this is about challenging secular notions of wisdom, not abandoning human notions of rationality!”

—Alister McGrath, Mere Apologetics: How to Help Seekers and Skeptics Find Faith (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2012), 90.

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