Q: How would a Christian Gnostic define salvation? What, in their view, was Jesus' contribution to salvation?
A: their definition of salvation was "escaping from this material world", which they believed the evil God had entrapped them in even though they were spiritual beings from a divine realm. A god from the divine realm used Jesus' flesh so they could receive the knowledge necessary to achieve salvation. However, this knowledge wasn't given to all Christians, just those who were believed to be capable of acting upon the teachings.
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