The beliefs of the Cathar #heretics , also known as Albigensians (from the city of Albi) were mainly reported through the writings of their opponents. This 19th century translation is from a 13th century chronicle. First it is to be known that the heretics held that there are two Creators; viz. one of invisible things, whom they called the benevolent #God , and another of visible things, whom they named the malevolent God. The New Testament they attributed to the benevolent God; but the Old Testament to the malevolent God, and rejected it altogether, except certain authorities which are inserted in the New Testament from the Old; which, out of reverence to the New Testament, they esteemed worthy of reception. They charged the author of the Old Testament with falsehood, because the Creator said, "In the day that ye eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil ye shall die;" nor (as they say) after eating did they die; when, in fact, after the eating the forbidden fruit t...
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