Gadaris / Gadarites

Pronunciation: guh-DAYR-ihs / GAD-uh-raits

Occurrences: Gadaris - 4 Gadarites - 15

First Reference: 4th Endowment 26:22-23 (see below)

See: Laecontes, Terralee Refer to: 4th Endowment 26 — 28

Summary: During the days of Laecontes, the sixth dispensational leader on the world of Terralee, a fanatical religious movement formed around the teachings of a man named Gadaris. The followers of Gadaris (referred to as the Gadarites) viewed humanity as inherently evil and depraved.

Notes/References:

Now there arose in the city a great commotion because of Laecontes; for in the regions of Sinope was there found a certain faction which claimed themselves as most pious and devout, looking down with cold disdain upon their fellow man.

Being themselves outside the assembly of believers, being a contentious and troublesome band, speaking always their own rightness of belief while yet they condemned all others.

Proving themselves most zealous and fanatical in following after Gadaris, a man which taught the fierceness and wrath of one God only; having written for his followers a book which would denounce in scathing words the teachings of Adamilus and Evelah and of all who came from Heaven.

Now the Gadarites believed that all men were bestial and filled with sin, being themselves worthy of death and suffering; and that except a man live strictly the commandments of Gadaris, then would the soul of a man perish in the grave to be no more forever.

4th Endowment 26:20-23

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