This article won and was selected because there is a growing concern about cult like organizations and it has come to our attention there are questions about our beliefs. Gnostic is pre-Christian and we do not operate as a cult in anyway. We do not subscribe to any religious denomination, and do not consider ourselves religious at all. As far as Gnostic's are concern religion has nothing to do with the most High. It has been manipulated into a mass form of control that is anti the most high. We are born in free will not to be controlled and ruled over, enslaved, abused, and terrorized. There are no more profits in HELL! WE are in HELL it does not get any worse than it is here and that is evident. Where else are you when one MAN can persuade people he is special and uses God as a tool to molest and rape children. It is always the same with cults, women and children are sexually abused and exploited. It is always sexually motivated, violent, controlling, manipulated, without fact or merit, dishonest, and there is always a diabolical person at the helm professing to be an instrument of God. I'm going to tell you, Judas did not betray Yahushua, he did as he was instructed and then he wrote about how man would distort, disillusion, dilute the real teachings of Yahushua in order to control mass groups of people . Hell or the fear of it is the most effective way to control mass groups of people. It has worked for ages and the more gruesome they can make it the more terrifying the more control they can exert. Gnostics were killed for this very reason. The have always known the truth and rejected the newly forming Christian belief. It was man then, and it continues to be man today. We are all trying to survive hell. We are here already, trying to be and do right amongst all the chaos. Let's discuss it more in this thread.