Gnostic Baptists (Sobiai) refers to various sects of Baptizers who adopted Kabbalah (Jewish Theology) and devoted themselves to BinaBinah. Gnostic Baptists were most common in Tang China, the Persian Empire and Mesopotamian Arabia which the Roman Church described as haeresium ferax, the “bearer” (or “mother”) of heresies. The phrase Arabi Mubeen itself refers to Devotees of BinaBinah. The Islamic Quran seems to have been drawn from Gnostic Baptist materials written in the tongue of devotees to Gnosis. Gnostics are derogatorily called Apostates or Heathens or Heretics by other Christians being Hanifa or Hanpa (corrupt) in Semitic languages because of their adherence to Kabbalah (Jewish Theology).
The Koine Greek word "Gnosis" refers to the Jewish Theological concept of "BinaBinah" (בינה) as a kind of spiritual knowledge usually referred to as "Understanding" and is used by Gnostic Baptists to refer to the light which shines in creation from BinaBinah. The concept entered Roman Christianity as "Sophia".
Gnostics view the World of Assia as a battle ground where the Kingdom of G-d is attempting to dethrone Lilith who was thought to rule as a sort of self-styled "god" of this world until the day of Har-Mageddon. Several different Gnostic Baptist sects emerged such as:
:Mandaeans
:Old Paulicans
:Hanifians (certain desert-dwelling Devotees of Bina Binah in Late Antiquity who under Maslama bin Habib embraced the term Hanifa as a name for Abraham to remind that even a man of such renowned righteousness as Abraham descended from such a corrupt Hanif as Serug. Thus no one should lose hope. They called themselves the Banu Hanifa meaning Children of Abraham.)
These sects regarded Jesus not as a human being but as an Angelic visitor of purely divine nature from the world of Bina Binah who decided it would be best to be born to enter this world rather than enter the world by other means. Such sects regarded Jesus as the "Mahamadim" Bridegroom, a spiritual trinity of Luminous Spirit, Crucified Word and Messianic Messenger who in combination only appeared to be human but in reality was not a human being. They also rejected the idea that the Father Gave Birth to the Messenger and they rejected the idea that the Messenger had any Children.
Gnostic Baptists can be distinguished from Christians by their use of the name Yahia instead of Iuhana to refer to John the Baptist and the use of the word Ieso instead of Yeshua to refer to Jesus.
