If, according to Gnosticism, the material world was created by an ignorant or malevolent Demiurge, why did the higher, benevolent source of reality allow such a being or such a world to come into existence? This idea seems to relocate the problem of evil to a meta-level rather than resolving it.
>>24949807>the higher, benevolent source of realityits not as personal a being as the christian god, and while it itself is perfect, its emanations are not, like light that fades with distance.
>>24949807Your thinking of God (or rather Gods) as your personal therapist in Gnosticism. The Good Gods in Gnosticism are beyond material reality and aren't too interested in the universe or mortal affairs. The universe, including the Demiurge, was created as a byproduct but the Demiurge was unaware of this and believe itself to be the one true god. The Good Gods later sent hidden messages in living creatures as a divine spark, but if you didn't get the memo, well maybe in the next life when you reincarnate you'll get it that time. And little interesting fact Gnostic Christianity was actually the earliest form of Gentile Christianity.
>>24949807The problem of evil is that it doesn't exist.
>>24949807The Monad allows the Demiurge's reality to exist because the Monad wants his grandchild (and his offspring) to return back home of their own free will. By allowing Sophia to create the Demiurge in the first place, the Monad could experience imperfection and the cycle of life. To dwell within the Pleroma is to thrive within Heaven-Nirvana, but what is the point of experiencing Oneness (non-birth and non-death) if you've never earned it? It's like being on top of Mount Everest when you were already born.Consider what the Buddha spoke about existence being equivalent to living in a burning house. To realize/understand Nirvana, one must just simply step outside.>The Demiurge came from the forest with wood and nails and made a house to live in. He stays inside his burning house because he is afraid of many things: his mortality, hashing things out with Sophia, and humbling himself. He fears returning back to the woods and what it means for him. He believes connecting himself with others is equivalent to Ego Death.
>>24949807Bro PLEASE I am begging you read more about the things you are talking about. The problem of evil?!? In GNOSTICISM? They literally claimed that the entire cosmos is evil and ruled by evil gods, there is no 'problem of evil' because in their view the evil is rooted in the design of the universe itself.You are also misunderstanding how divinity actually functions in Gnosticism. The high god doesn't actually do stuff, it's like the Neoplatonist 'Intellect' that creates the world of forms, but it has no power or control over the material world. Basically it's Platonism for retarded incels who hate the world.
>>24949807Gnosticism is a form of substance pluralism and thus is false.
It's a heresy created by Satan or those under demonic influence, don't expect it to make sense. Also, the is no one Gnostic myth or Scriptures, we have a bunch of different surviving texts. So it doesn't really make sense together. Aside from the Demiurge mythos and the edgy stuff in the Apocryphon of John and the Hypostasis of the Archons a lot of the stuff people are attracted to in Gnosticism is actually more coherently and deeply handled in orthodox Patristic works it seems to me. I don't know if it's that people tend to associate Christianity exclusively with modern Anglophone Protestantism, but there is this weird push to sell orthodox (or mostly orthodox) figures as le ebin gnostics, so that Eriugena is inappropriately slapped with the label, and Origen too, or the other Origenists or Eckhart, etc.
>>24949910Satan does not exist and neither does God. Jesus did not rise from the dead and he's never coming back.
>>24949873>what is the point of experiencing Oneness (non-birth and non-death) if you've never earned it?How about, because we hate reality and want out of this fucking mess? I didn't cause these problems, so why should I have to solve them? Your view implies that existence itself is a punishment.
