The Nag Hammadi Scriptures: An Enlightening Compilation of Gnostic Manuscripts Revealing New Perspectives on Early Christianity, Ancient Judaism, and Greco-Roman Religions

by Unknown Nag Hammadi

Irenaeus explains that heretics are “Gnostics,” by which he means dualists who believe that the world was created by an evil power, and so they have a dismally negative view of the world and the God who created it.