Gnosticism, or mainstream Catholic/Orthodox/Anglican/Protestant Christianity?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Not the one based on special esoteric knowledge for a secretive elite few.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

or organized as human souls, but the first organized of all of them. In any case, he assisted God the Father with the Creation,

This is pretty much exactly what the Arians believed (which is why "there was a time when He was not" is a misleading translation of their slogan; He does preexist Time as such, despite having been at some specific point within Eternity created by the Father).

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Just so you know, what M M said is idiocy.

All the non-idol worshiping religions in the day were called Mystery Schools but I don't think M M is well versed enough to deal with anything but a false sound bite.

Regards
DL

I'm aware of the religious environment of Classical Antiquity, yes; my New Testament intro class last year spent almost a month on it. I think it was an overall noxious environment in many ways, so having the options that existed at the time enumerated to me isn't going to be a good way to convince me of anything.

Regards
NT

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Eastern Orthodoxy is where it's at, y'all

I prefer....Messianic Judaism

Most actual Jewish people would take issue with that.