Why the Gnostics Believed the Creator Was Evil | DEMIURGE
The Gnostics had an answer to the problem of evil that the early Church spent centuries trying to erase: that the god who built this world was not the highest god, and may never have known what it was doing.
In Episode 2 of The Gnostic Revelation, we explain the Demiurge.
The "craftsman" god of Gnostic cosmology.
From the Nag Hammadi texts to the present day. This is the figure the Gnostics called Yaldabaoth: the blind creator, the false god, the maker of a broken world. We dig into the Gnostic answer to the problem of evil, the roles of Sophia and the Archons, the suppressed teachings of…
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