Tag: Luke 2:22-32
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Purification of Mary and Presentation of Our Lord (Luke 2:22-32)
The Gnostics of the first century imported many strange ideas into the Christian Church. Named after their chief aim: knowledge/gnosis, they believed the story of salvation was that the stuff of this world was evil and foreign. Our true selves were meant to dwell in spiritual forms. They taught that Jesus came to impart this…