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Valentinian sources describe God as containing all things within himself. An anonymous Valentinian quoted by Irenaeus claims that, "the Father of all contains all things, and that there is nothing whatever outside of the Pleroma..." (Irenaeus Against Heresies 2:4:2).
Christ. Next to Sophia stands a male redeeming divinity. In the true Valentinian system, the Christ is the son of the fallen Sophia, who is thus conceived as an individual.
A Valentinian Exposition is the second tractate from Codex XI of the Nag Hammadi Library. Less than half of the text has been preserved. The text explores the relationship between God, the created world, and humanity. It states that the material world is a shadow of the spiritual world and that humanity is a mixture of spiritual and carnal ...
By contrast, Valentinus’s views on this question are quite clear. He spoke of the Old Testament creator god as a superficial image of God, which, when believed in and followed in a literal sense, is a hindrance to experiencing firsthand what God really is. [16]
Valentinian Christology emphasizes that the human Jesus is redeemed by being joined with the Savior at his baptism. The Son is "the Name which came down upon Jesus in the dove and redeemed him" (Excerpts of Theodotus 22:6).
Because he is seem as the image of the true God and Father, Valentinians have no problem using the terms "Father" and "God" to describe him (cf. also Against Heresies 1:5:1, Valentinian Exposition 38).
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This world-view forms the basis of the Valentinian interpretation of Christianity. It also served to make the life and death of Jesus Christ the Saviour meaningful to them, providing the key to understanding his mission in the world and to why he said and performed the things he did.
