June 28, 2025

Orthodox Christianity and Gnostic Christianity form the Yin/Yang combination of the Christian Religion. In so doing, they represent Taoism at its best, balancing each other and offering the full edition of truth to meet the needs of the viewing audience. Something for everybody who knows what they are looking at (who knows what they need to see).

Orthodox Christianity spells it out, defines it clearly, proves it beyond question with scriptural references and doctrinal support in a quantifying kind of way, with authority grounded in the scriptures, traditions, rituals and clergy.

Gnostic Christianity talks about the qualities of its projections in using terms like "transparent to transcendence" and "the authority of one's own experience," to validate its assertions and claims.

Orthodox Christianity grounds its faith on its belief in the truth of the Bible, the creeds, the doctrines and the word of ministers, priests and "the way it has been done through the ages."

Gnostic Christianity places its faith in the validity of individual experience and the "felt sense" of the truth of personal encounters with realization, recognition, understanding and knowing what feels right, good, beautiful and valuable.

The two approaches to spiritual truth part ways with the questions of "Who says so?" and "What makes them think so?" and "How do we know whom to believe?" and "How do we know that what we are told to believe is true and trust that more than we trust the reality of our own personal experience?" "Do we take someone else's word for what is so, or the validity of our own convictions?" and "What part do we play in the construction/ development of our own beliefs, views, ideas and opinions?" and "Sense or Nonsense, who is to say?"