Can someone explain the connection between the LDS fath and Gnosticism---without call

and of the Devil, please. In other words, I am hoping for a "fair and balanced" answer ( LOL!) from R and S. and all "virulent" answers will be disregarded.

The mysteries.

Myself, being a Latter Day Saint, see only one similarity and that is that we believe that we are created by God and that we existed with Him before the world was--that is, that there was a premarital existence. We were sent to this earth to learn right from wrong and to gain experience.

Other than that--hm mm.

an inch worm, ha

Gnostic believe in the notion of a remote, supreme monadic divinity. LDS believe in a Heavenly Father that was literally our spiritual parent.

Gnostics believe that the Fall of Man as an occurrence with its ultimate foundations within divinity itself, rather than as occurring either entirely or indeed partially through human agency. LDS believe that Adam used his agency for his choice, but that the fall was necessary for the rest of us to be born in mortality. God put Adam in a position to fail, but he did not make him fail.

Gnostics believe the world is flawed or a production of 'error' but nevertheless as good as its constituent material might allow. This world is typically an inferior copy of a higher-level reality or consciousness. LDS believe that there will come a perfect planet, but that the earth is as it is for a testing grounds, not as an imperfect place. People can make the world better.

Gnostics think the salvation of the individual mirrors a concurrent restoration of the divine nature; a central Gnostic innovation was to elevate individual redemption to the level of a cosmically significant event. LDS look at overcoming the natural man, the brute, and changing ourselves. The spirit that is in us always had a divine nature.

...it's either use of evil metaphor or evil use of metaphor, which is it? light behaves as a wave and/or particle [witch is it both? spooky , and how does language work? search e prime...] and may i direct you to the gnostic newsgroup where no one is allowed to post....ever. agnostic means to not know, gnostic means knowing, but atheist means there is no knowing...wish people would get their 2's and 3's right not just peck at their P's and Q's...oh, and don't kill any living creature, plant or animal it's not really necessary.
http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/protein-cancer-risk.html#comment-627532
every hundred thousand years we put the science to the diet and are horrified....why do we eat seeds when our breast milk says no way by virtue of PROTEIN CONCENTRATION do we have the right to eat as rats do or to harvest as we do in order to attempt to eat as a rat does..everything
gnostic herbivores in your sites...
protein: it's the stupid pill we've been complaining/laughing about for years, decades now perhaps centuries when you consider extinctions... go humans! flush that chemical... move something... ridiculous species that humanity.. they gave it all up for language without considering possession, among other things like incest and sweet tooth...grieve with a twinge of self-respecting doubt
hunter/gatherer/xx xx/murderer