Main points on Gnosticism?

What are some main points or religious beliefs on Gnosticism? Even just answering with one point would help!

Jesus was just an enlightened man, but they use other terminology. In other words we're all Christ.

Gnosticism is a philosophical and religious movement which started in Prue-Christian times. The name is derived from the Greek word ?nosies? which literally means ?knowledge.? Gnostics believe that they have a secret knowledge about God, humanity and the rest of the universe of which the general population is unaware. It became one of the three main belief systems within 1st century Christianity and was noted for four factors by which differed from the two other branches of Christianity:
1. Tolerance of different religious beliefs within and outside Gnosticism.
2. Lack of discrimination against women. Although Jesus treated women as equals, and Paul mostly did the same, the other Christian belief systems started to oppress women in later generations.
3. A belief that salvation is achieved through relational and experiential knowledge.
4. The Supreme Father God or Supreme God of Truth is remote from human affairs; he is unknowable and undetectable by human senses.

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Gnosticism taught that only the spirit was good and that all physical matter was evil. They therefore rejected Jesus as the Christ since he was a man. How could God's son be made out of evil flesh? To consider Gnosticism a form of Christianity is a misnomer.

Gnosticism led to two widely-variant world views.

On the one hand, you had a group that believed that the evil body was to be beaten into submission. The way to salvation was a live in austerity, denying the lusts of the flesh.

On the other hand, you had a group that believed that since the flesh was evil there was no reason not to indulge. They led crazy sinful lives.

Funny how following a lie leads to weirdness like that.

"Gnosticism" is called satanism in the Bible. Colossians and 1 John in the Bible expose "gnosticism" as lies.

Gnosticism is our name in retrospect for a diverse number of religious movements. We know the most about Gnostic Christianity. But most of what we can say won't be true of every Gnostic.

Gnostics sought nosies - direct, experiential knowledge of the divine. They argued that people who knew could be saved from this material existence and reunited with their true divine identity: God living in them, and they in God. They sought this nosies through mystical practice.

Some Gnostics thought that the world was created by an inferior "Demiurge" who bound people to the law and the flesh. Then, the true God came to deliver divine salvation through knowledge (for some Christian Gnostics, this was Christ).

Gnostic Christians simply called themselves Christians, would use Christian terminology and even attended church with other Christians. They taught that they had the fullness of the truth on their side, and that Christians not seeking nosies were delusional and unaware. They considered themselves sober Christians and compared non-Gnostics to drunks.