So The Alexandrian Text Has A Gnostic Twist To It Because Of Origen?

Here are some of Origen's Beliefs:



- Origen believed that man was divine.



- He believed in the pre-existence of souls



- He taught that everyone, including the Devil, would eventually be saved.



- He described the Trinity as a "hierarchy," not as an equality of Father, Son, and Spirit.



- He believed in baptismal regeneration.



- He believed in purgatory.



- He taught that the Holy Spirit was the first creature made by God.



- He believed Christ was created.



- He taught transmigration (this is the belief that at death the soul passes into another body).



- He denied a literal interpretation of the Genesis creation, taught that it was a "myth" and taught that there was no actual person named "Adam."



- He taught that Christ "became" God at His baptism.



- He taught, based on Matthew 19, that a true man of God should be castrated, which he did to himself.



- He denied the physical resurrection of believers.







And so, is this the reason why westcott and hort, who have backgrounds in occultic/mystic dabblings favored the alexandrian text because of the mystical/gnostic work Origen did with the text? Thus is this why the newer biblical translations that come from the text corrupted?So The Alexandrian Text Has A Gnostic Twist To It Because Of Origen?
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Origen

Full name Origen

Born c.?185

Alexandria, Egypt[1]

Died 254

Caesarea Maritima, Palestine[1]

Era Ante-Nicene Fathers

Region Christian Philosophy

School Platonic

Influenced by[show]The Bible · Plato · Clement of Alexandria

Hippolytus of Rome

Influenced[show]School of Alexandria



Origen (Greek: ?ριγ?νη? ōrigénēs, or Origen Adamantius, c.?185–254[1]) was an early Christian African[2] scholar and theologian, and one of the most distinguished writers of the early Christian Church despite not being considered a Church father by most Christians who recognize this distinction.[3] Origen was also largely and ultimately responsible for the coalescence of Christian writings which became the New Testament, even though he had long passed on by the time the post-Constantinian Church officially approved of the twenty-seven with which we are familiar today, and even though he would have likely included, along with the twenty-seven, Shepherd of Hermas, Epistle of Barnabas, and 1 Clement. He holds this distinction because the canonical choices that were ultimately made seem heavily, if not certainly, influenced by the historical evidences of Eusebius of Caesarea in his Ecclesiastical History [3.25;6.25]: Eusebius got most, if not all, of his information about what Christian writings were accepted by the various churches from the writings and library of Origen.[4] According to tradition, he is held to have been an Egyptian[5] who taught in Alexandria, reviving the Catechetical School of Alexandria where Clement of Alexandria had taught.[6] The patriarch of Alexandria at first supported Origen but later expelled him for being ordained without the patriarch's permission.[7] He relocated to Caesarea Maritima and died there after being tortured during a persecution.[8]



Using his knowledge of Hebrew, he produced the Hexapla and a corrected Septuagint.[9] He wrote commentaries on most of the books of the Bible.[9] In De principiis (On First Principles), he articulated one of the first philosophical expositions of Christian doctrine.[9] He interpreted scripture allegorically and developed certain doctrines with similarities to Neo-Pythagorean and Neo-Platonist thought.[9] Like Plotinus, he wrote that the soul passes through successive stages of incarnation before eventually reaching God.[9] He imagined even demons being reunited with God. For Origen, God was the First Principle, and Christ, the Logos, was subordinate to him.[9] His views of a hierarchical structure in the Trinity, the temporality of matter, "the fabulous preexistence of souls," and "the monstrous restoration which follows from it" were declared anathema in the 6th century.[





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These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created.

In the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up --

for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to till the ground;

but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground --

then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground,

and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.So The Alexandrian Text Has A Gnostic Twist To It Because Of Origen?
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The Canaanite woman came and worshiped Him as God, saying, "Lord help me." Origen (c. 245, E), 9.446. (p. 98)



The Father generates an UNCREATED SON and brings forth a Holy Spirit - NOT AS IF HE HAD NO PREVIOUS EXISTENCE, but because the Father is the origin and source of the Son or the Holy Spirit. Origen (c. 225, E), 4.270. (Ibid.)



The Word was not made in the beginning. There was NO TIME when the beginning was devoid of the Word. For that reason it is said, "In the beginning was the Word." Origen (c. 228, E), 9.334. (p. 106)



As He is the image of God, He is ‘of the same dimensions’ as Him. Father and Son are a SINGLE and IDENTICAL ALMIGHTINESS. That is confirmed with the greatest clarity in the Address of Thanks of Thaumaturgus, reproducing the teaching he received: the Father ‘made the Son one with Him’ and ‘so to speak wraps Himself up in Him by the power of the Son which is EQUAL to his own’.