ABSTRACT
The gap that separates Gnosticism from Christianity concerns the basic question of “who is responsible for the origin of death”:
If you can accept a God who coexists with death camps, schizophrenia, and AIDS, yet remains all-powerful and somehow benign, then you have faith …. If you know yourself as having an affinity with the alien, or stranger God, cut off from this world, then you are a Gnostic. 1
