My Road to Christian Gnosticism

How My Life Lead Me to the Discovery to Christian Gnosticism

My life, as anyone else's, has been filled with its own ups and downs. How I discovered Christian Gnosticism is amazing in the sense that I had to experience life's turbulent times while I was older as I lost things I held near and dear while I was younger. I did change because of that. I am always changing my views on religion and God, and therefore, my religious interest has changed.

However, I would like to point out that I do believe in destiny and fate and that certain things are pre-ordained to be. However, these pre-ordained scenarios and situations I have encountered in my life are destined to happen however, how I react and behave is of my own free will.

Therefore, I present this article to you in order that you understand that this article was written at a time of my life filled with transitions and changes, this article is also written describing not my whole life but the religious part of my life and the various situation that have intermingled with my religious life leading up to the present day.

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The Early Years (6 to 12 Years)

For as long as I could remember my first experience with religion was religious education. These years were filled with curiosity and a bit of confusion and dismay for religious education. I remember being interested in God, Christ and the sacraments and what they all really mean. I was filled with confusion because; my religious education instructors gave me textbook type responses to my curiosities. Like any child going somewhere; where they do not want to go I was filled with a bit of dismay for religion because, at the time I did not want to go somewhere; where they would give me homework and work to do to learn about what Christianity is about. My parents at this time of my life spent there time going to church every Sunday morning. Almost the same feelings arose as my feelings for my religious education. I felt disinterest, yet curious and confused. I felt again disinterest in waking up early to go somewhere and getting dressed properly for it; as I did not want to go to church.