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{{1c| This world and this body are not the ultimate reality. {{bgw| 1Ch 29:15 }} For we [are] strangers before thee, and sojourners, as [were] all our fathers: our days on the earth [are] as a shadow, and [there is] none abiding. [{abiding: Heb. expectation }]</ref>}} | {{1c| This world and this body are not the ultimate reality. {{bgw| 1Ch 29:15 }} For we [are] strangers before thee, and sojourners, as [were] all our fathers: our days on the earth [are] as a shadow, and [there is] none abiding. [{abiding: Heb. expectation }]</ref>}} | ||
{{1c| Matter was eternal and the world had been created out of this evil stuff. <ref>{{bgw| Ge 1:1 }} In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.</ref>}} | {{1c| Matter was eternal and the world had been created out of this evil stuff. <ref>{{bgw| Ge 1:1 }} In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.</ref>}} | ||
{{1c| In other words, Gnostics believed that creation came out of evil matter. <ref>{{bgw|Ge 1:31 | {{1c| In other words, Gnostics believed that creation came out of evil matter. <ref>{{bgw|Ge 1:31 }} And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, [it was] very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. [{And the evening … : Heb. And the evening was, and the morning was etc. }]</ref> }} | ||
{{1c| Since God was spirit and good, he could not have created matter. <ref>{{bgw| Ro 1:21 }} Because that, when they knew God, they glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.</ref>}} | {{1c| Since God was spirit and good, he could not have created matter. <ref>{{bgw| Ro 1:21 }} Because that, when they knew God, they glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.</ref>}} | ||
{{1c| God created “spiritual elements” that handled matter and created the world. <ref>Cabbalists assign this to the letters.</ref>}} | {{1c| God created “spiritual elements” that handled matter and created the world. <ref>Cabbalists assign this to the letters.</ref>}} | ||
