On Jesus not Dying on the Cross as a Sacrifice for our Sin
What did the Saviour do?
He taught us how to deliver ourselves from the slavery of Satan, to purify us, and to reinstate our original condition, as far as is possible.
Did not the saviour give himself to us as a model (example)?
He represented before us, the dismal drama of human life, in order to serve as a model for us to imitate.
How should we understand the role of the Saviour?
The Savior is the Great Initiator, the Great Hierophant, and the Great Therapist of humanity.
Explanation - It is as a Hierophant that he initiated us into the celestial gnosis, the true gnosis, the holy gnosis, and it is as a Therapist that he comes and heals our languors. He is the Great Physician of the souls to whom he learned to get rid of the larvae stirred up by Satan and gnawing at them like a cancer, and he is also the Doctor of the body, for he gave us the hope of being reinstated in our original state, that is to say, to be free from suffering and disease.
Then it is not by suffering to atone for the sins of humanity that the Christ-Savior saved us?
No; the Christ -Saviour has delivered us, not by suffering, but by teaching us the truth and the true life.
Explanation- “I have come to save the world; I am the way, the truth and the life. If you hold to my words (teachings), you will truly be my disciples and you shall know the truth, and the truth will deliver you.” (John) To believe that God is offended by our sins, that this offense requires redress, and that this reparation is made by suffering; is to create a peculiar idea of God, and a peculiar idea of sin. That suffering sometimes causes us to open our eyes and becomes the cause of our conversion, that it is the former consequence of us creating an empire over our senses, at the right hour (time), we admit. But that our suffering and the suffering of a just man satisfies the justice of God is an absurdity.
Louis-Sophone Fugairon (Tau Sophronius, Bishop of Bézier)
From: Catéchisme expliqué de l’Église gnostique, 1899.
He taught us how to deliver ourselves from the slavery of Satan, to purify us, and to reinstate our original condition, as far as is possible.
Did not the saviour give himself to us as a model (example)?
He represented before us, the dismal drama of human life, in order to serve as a model for us to imitate.
How should we understand the role of the Saviour?
The Savior is the Great Initiator, the Great Hierophant, and the Great Therapist of humanity.
Explanation - It is as a Hierophant that he initiated us into the celestial gnosis, the true gnosis, the holy gnosis, and it is as a Therapist that he comes and heals our languors. He is the Great Physician of the souls to whom he learned to get rid of the larvae stirred up by Satan and gnawing at them like a cancer, and he is also the Doctor of the body, for he gave us the hope of being reinstated in our original state, that is to say, to be free from suffering and disease.
Then it is not by suffering to atone for the sins of humanity that the Christ-Savior saved us?
No; the Christ -Saviour has delivered us, not by suffering, but by teaching us the truth and the true life.
Explanation- “I have come to save the world; I am the way, the truth and the life. If you hold to my words (teachings), you will truly be my disciples and you shall know the truth, and the truth will deliver you.” (John) To believe that God is offended by our sins, that this offense requires redress, and that this reparation is made by suffering; is to create a peculiar idea of God, and a peculiar idea of sin. That suffering sometimes causes us to open our eyes and becomes the cause of our conversion, that it is the former consequence of us creating an empire over our senses, at the right hour (time), we admit. But that our suffering and the suffering of a just man satisfies the justice of God is an absurdity.
Louis-Sophone Fugairon (Tau Sophronius, Bishop of Bézier)
From: Catéchisme expliqué de l’Église gnostique, 1899.