1. JUDE

2. MATT. 13:55 Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?

3. JOHN 2:12 After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days.

4. MARK 3:21 And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.

5. PSALM 69:8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.

6. PSALM 69:8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.

7. 2PETER 3:3,4 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

8. Jude 1:42 Peter 2:1 Jude 1:72 Peter 2:6 Jude 1:82 Peter 2:10 Jude 1:92 Peter 2:11 Jude 1:102 Peter 2:12 Jude 1:162 Peter 2:18 Jude 1:172 Peter 3:3

9. JAMES 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

10. Angel Trumpet

11. G1294 Διαστρέφω - diastrephō Thayer Definition: to distort, turn aside to oppose, plot against the saving purposes and plans of God to turn aside from the right path, to pervert, corrupt

12. JAMES 1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. EPHESIANS 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

13. G645 ἀποσπάω - apospaō Thayer Definition: to draw off, tear away

14. Gnosticism (Greek: γνῶσις gnōsis, knowledge) refers to diverse, syncretistic religious movements in antiquity consisting of various belief systems generally united in the teaching that humans are divine souls trapped in a material world created by an imperfect god…Thus, broadly speaking, Gnosticism was a dualistic heresy, influenced by and influencing Judaism, Orthodox Christianity and Hellenic philosophy

15. SYNCRETISM Reconciliation or fusion of differing systems of belief, as in philosophy or religion, especially when success is partial or the result is heterogeneous DUALISM denotes a state of two parts. a conflict between good and evil.

16. Another pillar of gnostic belief is that salvation lies in attaining gnosis, esoteric knowledge kept secret to all but the initiated. NEW WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. MARK 16:15

17. "Seek not things that are too hard for thee, and search not out things that are above thy strength. The things that have been commanded thee, think thereupon; for thou hast no need of the things that are secret" – Ben Sira circa 180–175 BC

18. 1TIMOTHY 6:20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science (gnosis) falsely so called: ROMANS 6:1,2 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound… God forbid!

19. NIKOLAITAN UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF GNOSTICS DEPARTMENT OF JUDAIZERS

20. …I have found the thinking and research of the evangelical philosopher and theologian William Lane Craig helpful. A number of years back he published a book entitled The Only Wise God, The Compatibility of Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom.

21. Necessarily, if God foreknows x, then x will happen God foreknows x Therefore, x will happen.