Jesus said, "The world is a corpse."
The phrase “The world is a corpse” is not found in the Bible , but it does appear in some early Christian writings , especially in the Gnostic texts —which were not included in the official Bible but were preserved in collections like the Nag Hammadi Library . Petrified Giants and the Dragon's Eye One such quote is often attributed to Jesus in the Gospel of Philip , a Gnostic gospel, which contains the line: “The world is a corpse, and all who worship it are dead men.” This reflects a spiritual view of the material world —common in Gnosticism—that the physical world is broken, decaying, and cut off from true life, which only comes through spiritual knowledge (or “gnosis”). In this view, the “world” is not to be trusted or worshiped because it is temporary and lifeless , like a corpse. Instead, one should seek truth and light beyond the physical world—what Gnostics believed was the realm of the true, hidden God. In contrast, in the canonical Bible , Jesus does say similar things ...
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