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I choose Valentinus and his teacher Theudas because Historical episcopate, scripture and traditionalism is pure ritualism ergo brainless worshiping.
He taught that there were three kinds of people, the spiritual, psychical, and material; and that only those of a spiritual nature (his own followers) received the gnosis (knowledge) that allowed them to return to the divine Pleroma, while those of a psychic nature (ordinary Christians) would attain a lesser form of salvation, and that those of a material nature (pagans and Jews) were doomed to perish
People like Irenaeus are the reason why the Catholic Church exists.