I have read many scriptures that could enforce my belief in Gnosis such as Mark 16 where it says they shall take up serpents.
This scripture though, seems to confirm the understanding of faith that is taught in most churches and undermine these gnostic teachings
"Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law."
Romans 3:19-28 KJV
https://bible.com/bible/1/rom.3.19-28.KJV
This scripture though, seems to confirm the understanding of faith that is taught in most churches and undermine these gnostic teachings
"Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law."
Romans 3:19-28 KJV
https://bible.com/bible/1/rom.3.19-28.KJV
Accepted Answer
The law of "Faith" = feith, fei, fai from Anglo-French and Old French feid, foi faith.
A man who is justified by faith is Faithful to a promise; loyalty to the Father - the Truth; honesty, truthfulness,
Faithful, from faith + -ful, one who is full of faith, true; honest, trustworthy, true to the facts. Faithfully; faithfulness.
Faith, Greek Pisteuō πιστεύω = to apprehend the truth - "the light of the world."
"Then said Jeshuah (יהשוה) to those Jews (יהודה) which (Pisteuō πιστεύ; apprehend the truth incarnated) in him, If ye continue in my word (Logos- Christ), then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." - John *: 31, 32
And, what he is saying, is to have faith in Christ, the Logos, the Word, for the one that has incarnated the Cosmic Christ, who is the "Light" of the world.
"But as many as received him (the Cosmic Christ, the light of the world), to them gave he power to become the sons of God; Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word (the Cosmic Christ, the light of the world) was made flesh, and dwelt among "us," (and "we" beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth (the light of the world)."
A man who is justified by faith is Faithful to a promise; loyalty to the Father - the Truth; honesty, truthfulness,
Faithful, from faith + -ful, one who is full of faith, true; honest, trustworthy, true to the facts. Faithfully; faithfulness.
Faith, Greek Pisteuō πιστεύω = to apprehend the truth - "the light of the world."
"Then said Jeshuah (יהשוה) to those Jews (יהודה) which (Pisteuō πιστεύ; apprehend the truth incarnated) in him, If ye continue in my word (Logos- Christ), then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." - John *: 31, 32
And, what he is saying, is to have faith in Christ, the Logos, the Word, for the one that has incarnated the Cosmic Christ, who is the "Light" of the world.
"But as many as received him (the Cosmic Christ, the light of the world), to them gave he power to become the sons of God; Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word (the Cosmic Christ, the light of the world) was made flesh, and dwelt among "us," (and "we" beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth (the light of the world)."
Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah,
the Root of David, has prevailed to open the book,
and to loose the seven seals thereof. - Revelation 5: 5
Accepted Answer
The law of "Faith" = feith, fei, fai from Anglo-French and Old French feid, foi faith.
A man who is justified by faith is Faithful to a promise; loyalty to the Father - the Truth; honesty, truthfulness,
Faithful, from faith + -ful, one who is full of faith, true; honest, trustworthy, true to the facts. Faithfully; faithfulness.
Faith, Greek Pisteuō πιστεύω = to apprehend the truth - "the light of the world."
"Then said Jeshuah (יהשוה) to those Jews (יהודה) which (Pisteuō πιστεύ; apprehend the truth incarnated) in him, If ye continue in my word (Logos- Christ), then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." - John *: 31, 32
And, what he is saying, is to have faith in Christ, the Logos, the Word, for the one that has incarnated the Cosmic Christ, who is the "Light" of the world.
"But as many as received him (the Cosmic Christ, the light of the world), to them gave he power to become the sons of God; Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word (the Cosmic Christ, the light of the world) was made flesh, and dwelt among "us," (and "we" beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth (the light of the world)."
A man who is justified by faith is Faithful to a promise; loyalty to the Father - the Truth; honesty, truthfulness,
Faithful, from faith + -ful, one who is full of faith, true; honest, trustworthy, true to the facts. Faithfully; faithfulness.
Faith, Greek Pisteuō πιστεύω = to apprehend the truth - "the light of the world."
"Then said Jeshuah (יהשוה) to those Jews (יהודה) which (Pisteuō πιστεύ; apprehend the truth incarnated) in him, If ye continue in my word (Logos- Christ), then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." - John *: 31, 32
And, what he is saying, is to have faith in Christ, the Logos, the Word, for the one that has incarnated the Cosmic Christ, who is the "Light" of the world.
"But as many as received him (the Cosmic Christ, the light of the world), to them gave he power to become the sons of God; Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word (the Cosmic Christ, the light of the world) was made flesh, and dwelt among "us," (and "we" beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth (the light of the world)."
Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah,
the Root of David, has prevailed to open the book,
and to loose the seven seals thereof. - Revelation 5: 5
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