Joshua Harris

[Tibby]

Thank you, Ollie! I've wondered that myself. But not just here...

From Tibby:

Nice to know Gnosticism is alive and well in good ol' CU.
A bit Gnostic, don't you think?
Is that... No it can't be... I think I hear the Gnostic Train coming!
Vulcans are Gnostic.
 I think you are being way to Gnostic, but that line was just to funny.
Maybe Jack Chick should have a tract on Gnosticism, it might be enlightening.
If you think these Gnostic piles are truth, you need to seek the lord for better discernment.
I don’t know, all this Electronic Chips and Nuclear War Theory just seems a bit to Gnostic for my taste.
Looks like people are more into reading poorly written, Gnostic propaganda with a cheap escapist plot then reading a quality piece of literature that has changed the lives and mindsets of people the word over!
Are, as good little Gnostics, should we just not die?
All the heretics running around, Gnostics, Arians, televangelists.
Yeah, and pretend like I, in my Gnostic posts, know biblical prohpecy and understand it at the infallibility level?
There is a little but of Gnosticism in a few of the members, but you will find most are generally open to new and interesting Sceintific data.
No, you will be told not to box everyone else into your weak Gnostic definitions of the World.
Besides, if the world really is going to end, mocking the Gnostics is all I have left
Is the word Gnosticism in that post somewhere?
Oh, look, their it is again: Gnosticism.
Nice little bit of Gnosticism he has on his profile.
Unholy heresy, Batman! It’s Gnosticism!
Oh look! It is a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Gnosticism!
Did I see the word Gnosticism in that post? No? Oh, look, here is it again: Gnosticism.
Yeah, Sapph, the Left behind series is an entertaining read, but a bit on the Gnostic side.
Some of them have board-line Gnostic dourine, other are down right insane.

 

Hmmm, this IS interesting.  Did you compiles these, sincereheart?

Nice work.  Thank you.  That's a little bit of work.


What's the deal, Tibby?  Care to respond to this?

My use of the word comes from “the Upper turned Table Parody Series.” You’d kind of have to read it to understand in context. Basically, it referrers to:

A. Belief that the World and all things in it are evil, as the Gnostics do.
B. Fear of the World, due to the fact that they Believe it is evil.
C. The belief that you have Secret knowledge, as the Gnostics do.

It is an allusion to the Upturned Parody Series, of which the authors enjoy using the word “Gnostic” to referrer to the attitudes of many modern Evangelicals.

[Symphony]

And here, I thot my views were biblical.  


Now I'm just a gnostic.  


An EVANGELICAL gnostic.  


Maybe it should be spelled gnoistic--I DO tend to be, um, *noisy* sometimes.  


     

[Tibby]

Your a great guy Sym.

But, we aren’t meant to fear the world, or avoid it, we are meant to OWN it. So many people love to say "We are not of the world" but forget the first part of that verse, which CLEARLY states that he was in it. By running from the world, as we so often tend to do, we put ourselves into bubbles where the world can't get us, and next thing you know, Homosexuality is acceptable, our kids can't pray in school, and people are trying to remove a Rock from a courthouse in the Podunk South because it has been carved into the 10 commandments.

[batteredsheep]

I have a review of his new book, "Not Even a Hint" on my blog (see entry for Feb. 14, 2004:

http://thistrain.blogspot.com/2004_02_01_thistrain_archive.html

Anyone else read it?

Paul