What If the God of Genesis Is Not the Highest God? — The Secret Book of John's Answer, Step by Step

Chapters 0:00 Intro 2:30 The Invisible Spirit, before any Genesis god exists 5:02 Barbelo and the aeons take shape 9:02 Sophia acts alone, and something goes wrong 12:46 Yaldabaoth is born and makes his claim 16:34 Yaldabaoth shapes Adam, and something not his own enters him 20:33 Where the texts disagree: the boast answered two ways 24:41 What this would change about an ordinary day 28:54 The open question Sources Apocryphon of John, translated by Frederik Wisse and Michael Waldstein, in The Nag Hammadi Scriptures, or Karen L. King's The Secret Revelation of John Hypostasis of the Archons, translated by Bentley Layton, in The Gnostic Scriptures