Reply #22: I love the way you make up stuff to fit your logic - which Greek School [View All]

[papau]

did you go to? Was that school Greek Orthodox Church run, or just some Greek classes, or perhaps something like the Athenian Academy in Tampa Florida area where the school is helped by the secular Greek Government, and not church related?

In any case dictionary definitions are :
gnosis "knowledge",
gnostikos, "good at knowing

and there is no good definition of Gnostics: they were "people who knew" that matter and life on earth were debased versions of the spirit and that one needed to get back closer to the spirit, with the sales point that knowing this made you a superior class of being, whose present and future status was essentially different from that of those who did not know.

Your interpretation is logical - it is just not correct historically or in terms of the Greek language.