Actually, Gnostics still believe God love you. They just believe that the creator of the physical universe which traps us all, i.e. the false-god Demiurge, hates us. Real God attempts to pierce the wall between our false existence and the spiritual world through messengers like Jesus ect. ect. Old Testament God is the…

You misinterpret the Gnostic message. There is a God, and he is a God of love, but we are trapped by the demiurge, in a world of want and material desires. This is remarkably similar to Buddhist teachings, and is one of the clues that early Christian writers were heavily influenced by Eastern thought.

But they do believe it's a fake god and that there is a real ultimate force outside of its realm. So it's not quite the same as a run-of-the-mill Christian believing in God and hating him... The gnostic god is not omnipotent outside this world, and escape from this world is possible. In most Christianity, God is an…

Rather, God-1 Exists, he hates you, but God-2 also exists, and he wants you to escape from God-1's prison because God-2 loves you.