Religiosity

D uring the first 500 years AD, several sects of Gnostics argued that the Apostles got it all wrong. They claimed that Jesus was neither the long-awaited Jewish messiah nor was he a new revelation of the Old Testament God. They preached that the god that sent Jesus was an entirely new, different, and loving god. They reasoned that he was a previously unknown deity called “Monad” who was a new…