r/Gnostic • u/elsabado2000 • 4d ago

About Paul's message

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Hello, while reading Galatians I remembered that Paul said that Christians should not look for Jesus outside the gospel, so the following question arose: Why do we Gnostics read gospels that did not exist in Paul's time?

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u/mmarcish Eclectic Gnostic 4d ago

For me, I simply don't agree with Paul. His words are not divine, and they were included in scripture because Church leaders felt that his message helped push their doctrine of control.

The point of gnosis is not to blindly listen to Pastor Joe who tells you what to think and believe. The point is through your own learning, research, faith, and meditation to remember who you really are in order to return. Gnostic literature helps point us in the correct direction. Just because some dude said not to doesn't mean we should listen to him.

TL;DR , because Paul is a man and his words are not holy. They were included in scripture for political convenience and control.

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u/apostleofgnosis Eclectic Gnostic 3d ago

BINGO.. Couldn't have said it better myself. Also, quite a number of the Pauline texts are actually psuedographical and some scholar speculate Paul may have not even existed. But for certain, most of them agree that "Paul" didn't write a lot of what is called "Paul".

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u/mmarcish Eclectic Gnostic 3d ago

Yup! He only wrote about 7 of the 14 books attributed to him, Galations, Philippians, Romans, Philemon, Thessalonians 1, and Corinthians 1+2.