The refutation of gnosticism will birth in the called a desire to unshackle themselves from the chains of slavery to it, especially when they see the damage it is doing to themselves. This is how we begin to know who the Lord Jesus Christ is calling to himself.
Let read the great preface description of Irenaeus with added parenthesis amplification to give real meaning to today.
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Inasmuch as certain (Gnostic) men have set the truth aside, and bring in lying words and vain (evolutionary) genealogies, which, as the apostle says, “minister questions rather than godly edifying which is in faith,” and by means of their craftily (Masonic Lodge doctrines) constructed plausibilities draw away the minds of the inexperienced and take them captive, I have felt constrained, my dear friend, to compose the following treatise in order to expose and counteract their machinations. These (Masonic) men falsify the oracles of God, and prove themselves evil interpreters of the good word of revelation. They also overthrow the faith of many, by drawing them away, under a pretence of superior (Gnostic) knowledge, from Him who rounded and adorned the universe; as if, forsooth, they had something more excellent and sublime (Masonic degrees) to reveal, than that God who created the heaven and the earth, and all things that are therein. By means of specious and plausible words, they cunningly allure (through central banker funded hirelings) the simple-minded to inquire into their system; but they nevertheless clumsily destroy them, while they initiate them into their (Sabbatean Lodge) blasphemous and impious opinions respecting the (lower) Demiurge (god among the many gods); and these simple ones (who made death oaths in the Lodge Mystery Religions) are unable, even in such a matter, to distinguish falsehood from (Gospel) truth.
Irenaeus Against Heresies.
Book I.
Preface. Date 180 AD
Parenthesis added for clarification.
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The hope and assurance given by God that salvation will come to those who see the truth about gnosis lies, they have ignorantly followed, and inherited, is what prevents the simple from being delivered from their own sin. Into the freedom of the Lord Jesus Christ.
O Jehovah, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations shall come to You from the ends of the earth and say, Our fathers have inherited only lies, vanity, and there is no profit in them. Jeremiah 16:19
Considering the infestation of Gnosticism throughout the world. There cannot be any soul winning apart from this preparatory apologetic in our day.
