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You represented gnosticism as if Christ taught it. He did not. He emphatically DID NOT teach that the material universe was evil. In fact, quite the opposite! "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven." He healed he sick, raised the dead, showing that being healthy and alive were very much good things.
> some of them were approaching an understanding of God ...
I believe the history of what the Greeks and Romans actually believed has been lost to history. Perhaps intentionally. Or perhaps because the Christians adopted it as one and the same, because it was one and the same.
Call the gods "saints" and I believe you get something resembling early Christianity, complete with resurrection and redemption.
Of note, the "pagans" rejected witchcraft (IE drugs and necrophilia) and they rejected anything that would destabilize society. They knew very much about the evils of eros and such and knew to avoid carnal passions, outside of certain constraints.
> some of them were approaching an understanding of God ...
I believe the history of what the Greeks and Romans actually believed has been lost to history. Perhaps intentionally. Or perhaps because the Christians adopted it as one and the same, because it was one and the same.
Call the gods "saints" and I believe you get something resembling early Christianity, complete with resurrection and redemption.
Of note, the "pagans" rejected witchcraft (IE drugs and necrophilia) and they rejected anything that would destabilize society. They knew very much about the evils of eros and such and knew to avoid carnal passions, outside of certain constraints.