Gnostic Insights

Gnostic Insights


Aeons, Not Ages

August 22, 2021

In this ground-breaking episode, we take a close look at David Bentley Hart's recent translation of the New Testament, and how his more accurate rendering of the original Greek brings the New Testament fully in line with the concepts of Gnosticism. While Hart's translation clearly removes eternal damnation from Christianity, Dr. Ropp takes it a step further and suggests that the term "aion" should not be translated as a unit of time, an "Age," but rather as a unit of consciousness--an "Aeon" of the Pleroma. This single shift in translation changes everything!