A Gnostic who believes that the God the Christians worship is an evil demiurge who made the flawed creation in which we are imprisoned and from which we may escape by regaining contact with the true Supreme Being, has a belief about the Christian God. A Gnostic and a Christian will agree that they are disagreeing with each other over the nature of that being.
A Gnostic and a Christian will agree that they are disagreeing with each other over the nature of that being.
… they would? They disagree regarding the source of their beliefs, and various other details (eg the world is evil,) but I wouldn’t have thought that the existence (as opposed to identity) of God was one of them.
This discussion shows signs of becoming a dispute over definitions, incidentally.
A Gnostic who believes that the God the Christians worship is an evil demiurge who made the flawed creation in which we are imprisoned and from which we may escape by regaining contact with the true Supreme Being, has a belief about the Christian God. A Gnostic and a Christian will agree that they are disagreeing with each other over the nature of that being.
… they would? They disagree regarding the source of their beliefs, and various other details (eg the world is evil,) but I wouldn’t have thought that the existence (as opposed to identity) of God was one of them.
This discussion shows signs of becoming a dispute over definitions, incidentally.
It’s been that since the start. The Penn quote is just broken and deserves no further attention.