Where in the Bible is God called "Yaldaboath"?

Answer 1

God is not called Yaldaboath in the canonical Bible, itself. The Gnostics called the god of the Hebrew Bible, (Old Testament for Christians), Yaldaboath, Samael, Saklas, or The Demiurge.

BTW: Yaldaboath is NOT the name of the Gnostic God, Gnostics rejected Yaldaboath. The Gnostic God has no name since there was no one before him to give him a name. The Gnostic scriptures have much to do with the Bible, since they believed that the god Jesus taught of was the Gnostic God, not the god of the Old Testament. This is how the Gnostics explain the striking differences in the character of God between the Old and New Testaments.

Also, Sophia is not the one who tricked Yaldaboath into breathing the essence of light into Adam, it was Christ in the form of an angel. He was sent by the Father to redeem Sophia for bringing forth Yaldaboath in the first place. The essence breathed into Adam was Sophia's, not Yaldaboath's. He stole it from his mother, Sophia, when she banished him from the realm of light into the realm of darkness.

Answer 2

That's a Gnostic name for their god. In Gnostic mythology, Sophia tricked Yaldaboath into breathing his essence of the light into man. It has nothing to do with the Bible.

Yes, Sophia tricked Yabadolah. http://glasgowgnostic.blogspot.com/2005_10_01_glasgowgnostic_archive.html

http://lightandlife.wordpress.com/tag/praxis/

Yaldaboath is the name of the creator god in Gnosticism.
"Gnostic" is an umbrella term for many different Christian heresies which originated about 400 A.D. as a rebellion against Christianity. There are no Gnostic scriptures older than 400 A.D., even though a few scholars have tried to push back the date to 200 A.D. (such as the spurious Judas Gospel manuscript which dates circa 400 A.D. )
Since Gnosticism comes later than orthodox Christianity, it therefore cannot be "more genuine." As one scholar noted, the Judas Gospel was an obvious fake, and compared to reading the diary of Queen Victoria and she mentioned her Rock CD collection.

The beliefs of Gnostic groups were extermely diverse. Some believed in total sexual abstinence (and of course they died out). Some groups, like the Cainites and Sethites believed every sexual desire should be fulfilled and held orgies. Most held women in an unfavorable light (despite what you might have read in the DaVinci Code). The spurious "Gospel of Thomas" states that Mary Magdalene would become a man in Heaven, because women were corrupted.

Many of the Gnostic groups had the habit of Theological "charachter inversion". The creator god was usually seen as evil, since he created an imperfect world. Satan (often identified with Ophite of Greek mythology by these sects) was seen as the good guy. Likewise, many of the villians of the Bible were seen as heroes. Simon Magus was a particular favorite.

Gnosticism also dealt with magic and sorcery and every kind of superstion. Consult "Ancient Christian Magic" by Marvin W. Meyer and Richard Smith for a look at the love spells, money spells and even revenge spells(!) of the various Gnostic sects. Once you read that book, you'll realize how silly and superstitious Gnostics were. Another good book is "The Other Bible" by Willis Barnstone which has many texts of Gnostic sects.

Answer 3

It's the name the Gnostics gave Yaweh. The name is in the Gnostic texts.

Answer 4

I am sure nowhere, unless you mean some Hebrew term thoroughly butchered in English to come up with that mishmash...

Answer 5

Nowhere!

Answer 6

NO WHERE