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Gnostic interpretations of familiar Bible verses

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights. I’m so glad to have you here with me. I thought this week we’d go ahead and do some more of those Gnostic interpretations of Christian memes so that you can see the differences and similarities between our Gnostic message and the traditional Christian way of interpreting these same Bible verses. I simply went out on the internet and looked for popular Bible verses, and these were the first ones that came up on this particular search. So here we go.

From 1 Corinthians 3:16. “Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?”

Even conventional Christians realize that we are God’s temple, but they generally think of the temple that we are as somewhat separate from God Himself and God’s actual temple. However, when we Gnostic Christians speak of inhabiting God’s temple, we take it in a much more literal sense—that when we invite the Third Order of Powers to come in and take over our souls, we’re moving our own Second Order Powers off the throne of our souls and inviting the Christ to occupy the throne of our souls. This brings God into our temple.

It makes our body a literal temple of God, a temple of the Christ, because there is Christ dwelling within our midst, God dwelling within the temple. You see, our body is as much a temple to the Third Order of Powers as the temple in Jerusalem was to Jehovah. Now that’s another discussion—the relationship between the Hebrew God Jehovah and the God Above All Gods. But what we’re talking about here is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the temple of our bodies. Our body is a replication of the Fullness of God, and we are Second Order representations of that Fullness of God whereas the Third Order of Powers are the actual living images of the Fullness of God, and there’s a Third Order Power for every one of our Second Order Powers inside of our body, inside of this meat mountain that we live in. So, of course, God’s Spirit dwells in our midst once we invite God’s Spirit to do so. God’s Spirit cannot dwell in the midst of our temple until we invite it in, until we get off the throne and invite it to take its place.

The next meme is from 1 John 4:8, and it says, “Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.”

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