Some time ago, and throughout the years, I’ve heard various people say, “I want to drag souls to Heaven.” I’m sure that in the cases where I’ve heard it, the person didn’t realize what they were saying. They can’t drag themselves, let alone anyone else, to Heaven! If we take that phrase literally then it means that the person thinks they have the power of God, specifically, of Jesus, as their own. (!) Nobody in their right mind would claim such, except for that nasty incident in the garden, wherein Eve bought the serpent’s lie that they will “become like gods.” The implication of course was that they had to do evil in order to be like God. Thus error was born whereby people even today persist in the idea that good can be done by their own power, even with evil means.
The gnostics have, as their core doctrine as it were, two ideas that militate against this truth: first, they claim that we can become god on our own power, and they claim to have the secret (*ahem*… it’s nothing different than what the serpent said, for they follow his method) and, second, that evil is the material world and consequently, the gnostic believes salvation is obtained by ridding their soul of their material body.
Our Lord says, sine mihi nihil potestas facere that is, “without me you can do nothing.” (more...)
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