Jesus expressed a Gnostic view of the cosmos in the Gospel of Thomas.

 

“If you find the cosmos, you have only found a dead body.  And anyone who sees the cosmos as a dead body is superior to it.”[1]

 

     But can we trust Thomas?  Is there any other evidence which clearly links Jesus Christ to the Gnostic opinion?  Maybe.  For centuries, an alleged letter of Saint Paul called 3^rd Corinthians existed in the Bible of the Armenian Church.  3^rd Corinthians should not be dismissed lightly, for the Armenian Church is the most ancient national Christian establishment, existing even before Constantine's conversion.  3^rd Corinthians was also accepted by the early Syrian Church, which is arguably even more ancient.  The letter is prefaced with a statement from the Christians at Corinth.  Here is an excerpt:

 

Two men named Simon and Cleobius have come to Corinth, and they are destroying a lot of people’s faith with bad ideas… They teach that humans are not made by God… (and) that God did not make the world, but rather angels made it.[2]

 

     But who were Simon and Cleobius?  And why should we care what they said?  Cleobius may have been the uncle of Jesus Christ.  He is mentioned in the Biblical gospels twice, where his name is spelled variously as Cleopas and Cleofas.[3]  He is also mentioned in the histories, under the name Clopas.  He had a son named Symeon, or possibly Simon, the cousin of Jesus.  We can deduce this from the writings of the mid 2^nd century Christian historian Hegesippus, who wrote:

 

Upon the martyrdom of James the Righteous, who suffered for the cause like the Lord did, the son of his uncle Clopas, named Symeon, was nominated bishop.  Because he (Symeon) was the Lord’s cousin, everybody agreed that he should be the second (bishop of Jerusalem).[4]

 

Could Jesus’ cousin Symeon and uncle Clopas be the Simon and Cleobius of 3^rd Corinthians?  If so, what a revelation!  Jesus’ own relatives denied God’s role as creator!  Instead, they believed blundering angels created the universe in error.  However, Hegesippus mentions another Simon and another Cleobius in the same passage, and so the identification is uncertain, and must remain only a theory.

Click to read more about how ancient Christian Gnosticism is compatible with evolution.

The creationist narrative in Genesis 1 is contradicted by many ancient Christian texts.  Instead of an Almighty Creator God, ancient Christian texts espouse that the universe is born from blind arrogance and stupidity.  The angels caused evolution to occur from species to species.  There are many gods, (or aliens?), and the Christian God is just one among them.  Satan the Devil writes scripture, and thus the Bible was polluted with Genesis 1.  Archaeology and modern scholarship demonstrate that Genesis is indeed corrupted.  Cavemen walk with Adam and Eve.  Esoteric prophecies reveal the coming of Christ, and also reveal the dark forces that govern the cosmos.  Such are the ancient Christian writings.

Science vindicates the truth of these ideas.  Evolution often happens too fast for Darwin’s theory.  Gaps in the fossil record indicate that some kind of unnatural force acts together with natural selection.  Astrobiology reveals that intelligent life probably evolved long before us.  The fossil record reveals strange clues that aliens abducted species and transported them across oceans, and that DNA from diverse lineages was combined to spawn hybrid species.  Evidently, aliens influence evolution, and they are the gods of the world’s religions. 

This is not fiction.  All these facts are thoroughly documented in the links above.