I've only recently started reading the source material and I've learned that the Gnostics believe that the God in the Torah is actually an imperfect God (described as resembling a dragon) and not the true Father of everything. Jesus Christ's father is not the Torah God but the true Father of everything. Jesus Christ was trying to save humanity from the Torah God.
Seems pretty accurate to me. Many people say that jews worship the devil. Well, the Gnostics basically said the same thing in texts over 2000 years old. I've also heard the Torah God is a dragon bit before and thought it was a modern view. I didn't realize it literally was written in texts 2200 years old.
We have our equivalent of 'turning point' big-tent moderate tards (modern so-called 'gnostics' like (((samael aun weor))) the latrinx demiurge apologist) and degenerate lolberts/libertines (if Epiphanius is right, borborites would be an example of lolberts), Noticers (Marcionites) and schizos (Hermeticists)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcion_of_Sinope#Teachings :
> According to Marcion, the God of the Old Testament, whom he called the Demiurge, the creator of the material universe, is a jealous tribal deity of the Jews, whose law represents legalistic reciprocal justice and who punishes mankind for its sins through suffering and death.
> In contrast, the God that Jesus professed is an altogether different being, a universal God of compassion and love who looks upon humanity with benevolence and mercy.
> Marcion also produced a book titled Antitheses, which is no longer extant,[28] contrasting the Demiurge of the Old Testament with the Heavenly Father of the New Testament.