The Nephilim, BANNED Gospels, Wes Huff & TRUTH About Christianity | Gnostic Informant • 318
Julian Dorey · 11 Jul 2025 · 3h 15m
Guest: Gnostic Informant · Host: Joey Def, Julian Dorey
This conversation with a self-described Gnostic scholar walks through the messy, fragmented early history of Christianity before it hardened into orthodoxy. The guest lays out his personal path from an irreligious upbringing through a prison conversion to Christianity, a stint in a King James-only church, a Pentecostal congregation, and eventually a fascination with early Gnostic movements before settling into a non-dogmatic, knowledge-valuing worldview he still calls Gnostic in a loose sense. Along the way he addresses a viral dispute with an apologist over the ending of Mark's gospel, explaining the manuscript evidence and how the disagreement got resolved. Much of the discussion catalogs long-forgotten Christian sects—groups that deified other figures besides Jesus, communities practicing radical wealth-sharing, a leader accused of spiking the Eucharist with hallucinogens, and one accused of grotesque ritual practices—arguing that first- and second-century Christianity was far more chaotic and pluralistic than the standard narrative of a straight line from Jesus to the institutional church. The pair also compare Dionysian and other pagan myths to gospel stories, discuss the Council of Nicaea's actual concerns, the politics behind Constantine's legalization of Christianity, and how crucifixion and Roman provincial law worked. They close on a broader reflection about religion's role in preserving classical culture and personal reflections on belief, meaning, and what each host finds compelling about faith and doubt.
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- Viral clash over Gospel of Mark's ending
- Guest's path into prison, reading, and religion
- Zeitgeist documentary and pagan parallels to Jesus
- Journey through King James, Pentecostal churches, Gnosticism
- Carpocratians, Epiphanes, and deified figures
- Valentinus almost becoming bishop of Rome
- Marcion, the first Christian Bible, and two gods
- Council of Nicaea and the Trinity debate
- Marcus the Magus and psychedelic Eucharist claims
- Banned gospels, Nephilim, and Old Testament polytheism
- Christianity's absorption of Greco-Roman culture
- Personal theology: the muse and first cause
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“His group called the Marosians are responsible for spreading Christianity into Europe.”
“Unless you drink my eat my flesh, you cannot get to the kingdom of heaven.”
“They built a temple to this person as another Christian god.”
“He was in the habit of waiting for in expectation for the drug, obtaining a supply of moisture might be dissolved and being intermingled with the potion might impart to the color.”