| The Gnostics of early Christendom believed in seeking personal spiritual experience. |
| Oh right, some of the Gnostics identified the Demiurge with the Old Testament Hebrew god Yahweh. |
| Although Marcion was not himself a Gnostic, like many Gnostics he believed that the God of Jesus was not the creator God of the Scriptures. |
| First in that long line were the Gnostics of the Apostolic age. |
| Most of the early Church's toiling over Christ's humanity took place in terms less extreme than those of the Gnostics or of Tertullian. |
| The Gnostics were another losing faction and the exact opposite, Christologically, of the Adoptionists. |
