Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

The Greek word in this verse which is
translated “science” is “gnosis.” “Gnosis” means
knowledge. The apostle condemned, not
knowledge in general, but false knowledge. False
teachers were placing their own interpretations on
Christian truth by reading into it human ideas. This
tendency grew and increased until a great system
bearing the name of Christianity, known as
Gnosticism, was established. To show that this
religion was not a theory without an organization
among men, but that it had communities and was
widespread, I quote from Milman:
“The later Gnostics were bolder, but more
consistent innovators on the simple scheme of
Christianity... In all the great cities of the East in
which Christianity had established its most
flourishing communities, sprang up this rival which
aspired to a still higher degree of knowledge than
was revealed in the Gospel, and boasted that it
soared almost as much above the vulgar
Christianity as the vulgar paganism. ”[7]
The mysterious theories of these Gnostics have
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