{"id":1304,"date":"2019-04-22T10:40:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T14:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"podlove-2019-04-22t02:57:50+00:00-3aa665f6d4a4f4e"},"modified":"2019-04-22T10:40:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T14:40:01","slug":"zombie-heresies-gnosticism-part-1","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/matthewcochran.net\/blog\/zombie-heresies-gnosticism-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Zombie Heresies &#8211; Gnosticism Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t[podlove-episode-web-player publisher=\"1304\" post_id=\"1304\"]\n\t\n\t\t\n<p>Have you ever heard that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;we are spirits that merely inhabit physical bodies?<br \/>\n&#8230;there&#8217;s a spark of the divine in everyone?<br \/>\n&#8230;the physical world doesn&#8217;t really matter?<br \/>\n&#8230;Jesus is really nice, but the Father is really mean?<br \/>\n&#8230;secret spiritual knowledge will set you free?<\/p>\n<p>You probably have. These days, you can barely turn around without tripping over somebody who espouses beliefs like this. Today, we&#8217;d generally call them &#8220;spiritual but not religious.&#8221; Half a century ago, we referred to them as &#8220;new age.&#8221; But the Church had to engage with beliefs like this nearly two thousand years ago.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of Lutheran in a Strange Land, we&#8217;ll start examining one of the oldest and most rotten Zombie Heresies out there: Gnosticism.<\/p>\n<p>Introduction to Zombie Heresies: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/WhXcjI52eO8\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/WhXcjI52eO8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yoda&#8217;s Lecture to Luke: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YEuA5Y_Cc88\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YEuA5Y_Cc88<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can find more of my material at&#8230;<br \/>\nThe 96th Thesis: <a href=\"http:\/\/matthewcochran.net\/blog\/\">http:\/\/matthewcochran.net\/blog\/<\/a><br \/>\nThe Federalist: <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/author\/matthewcochran\/\">http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/author\/matthewcochran\/<\/a><br \/>\nAmazon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Though-Were-Actually-True-Apologetics-ebook\/dp\/B01G4KWQJW\/\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Though-Were-Actually-True-Apologetics-ebook\/dp\/B01G4KWQJW\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3twjoacUZPs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Zombie Heresies - Gnosticism Part 1 - The 96th Thesis<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewcochran.net\/blog\/zombie-heresies-gnosticism-part-1\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zombie Heresies - Gnosticism Part 1 - The 96th Thesis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Have you ever heard that...  ...we are spirits that merely inhabit physical bodies? ...there&#039;s a spark of the divine in everyone? ...the physical world doesn&#039;t really matter? ...Jesus is really nice, but the Father is really mean? ...secret spiritual knowledge will set you free?  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