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Gnostics believed ignorance was the only actual human sin

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Finally, a theological framework that forgives you for being terrible, but not for being uneducated. To the Gnostic mind, traditional moral failings were largely irrelevant compared to the ultimate tragedy of simply not knowing how the universe actually functioned.

Gnostics believed ignorance was the only actual human sin
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