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Originally Posted by davidmartin
The secret book of John reveals the old testament God a lower creator of the material universe and not the true God. I think this is a later development in Gnostic thought once it passed into the gentile world. Earlier forms of Gnosis didn't seem to go down this road so much
I'll illustrate this with a joke
Back then if you said there is another God to a Jew in Judea, they would look at you like you have 17 heads and size up nearby rocks for a stoning
If you said the same thing in say pagan Rome, they'd say "interesting, now what's for breakfast, eggs?"
The secret book just reflects that later view, but plenty of it probably contains earlier material, ie one God created everything
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1st and 2nd Kings tell a different story. The people were following the wrong God and did not know it!
The Ten Commandments acknowledge other Gods.