the gnostics and social justice. (Creator, Jehovah, church, catholic)

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According to the gnostics, the god of the Old Testament was the god of the Law.?

And also the creator. They also said that the true God was hidden. At first, it sounds blasphemous that the Abrahamic God is a 'second-class God.' But let's look at this metaphorically. What if the Demiurge is not actually LITERALLY the God of the Old Testament; what if the Yhwh motif was used as a metaphor for the oppressive elements that claim to have adopted the law of Yhwh, and keep people down? The conclusion would then be that the Hidden God of the Gnostics on an ultimate level IS the God of the Jews, Christians and Muslims? I realise that Gnostics are said to have been against the Hebrew God; but what if YHWH is in fact a metaphor for the forces of compulsion and oppression? And the original message, originally passed to initiates in secret for fear of misinrerpretation, has indeed been misunderstood by christians; and the Gnostics were not really rebelling against Jehovah, but rather against those claiming divine sanction: the Catholic Church?

[No offence intended to any Catholics, but I am pointing that abuses were not unknown in this period. No doubt the Gnostics themselves were not perfect either.]