Gnosticism

Gnosticism teaches that evil lies in the material world and that salvation comes through secret knowledge, not through Christ’s finished work. It rejects the Old Testament, God’s law, and moral responsibility, replacing grace with human insight and autonomy. Though ancient, Gnosticism lives on today in modern art, philosophy, theology, and ethics where immediacy replaces mediation, feelings replace truth, and man replaces God. Against this, Scripture declares a God who speaks, commands, judges, and saves and who is nearer to us than we are to ourselves.