How Gnosticism Misread the Bible
Just imagine when you were in school and you were taught to read your alphabets from A-Z. You know that is the way by which you read the alphabet. This is not so when it comes to the system of Gnosticism reading of the text of scripture. There are two crucial areas by which many Gnostics within the professing church: that of "misreading" the context of the Bible to contextualize the meaning of the text and the "reframing" of the characters of the Bible through such allegorical interpretation. (2 Tim. 2:16, 17-18) Whenever there is a perversion of biblical truth it will have such disastrous effect by which to greatly impact the way many Gnostics view God and the world at large. The theistic God of creation is viewed as a inferior Being; the world in and of itself is viewed as as cosmic "mess" by which the "spirit" longs to be freed from its incarceration. It is the "spirit" by which it is imprisoned. Many Gnostics are encouraged to abst