Original Christianity and early Gnostics did not worship Jehovah, the God of the Jews and the Old Testament, nor did they worship the Christian God fashioned out of a hybrid of Jewish and Roman archetypes. The Gnostic Deity was the Great Life, the Hidden Living Ones and this was the original God of the Jewish People and of the Nazoreans of Yeshu (Jesus).

Early Nazoreans said that "Nazoreanism was older than Judaism." They understood Judaism to be a corruption of the original pure Gnosis by those who returned from captivity in Persia and who were sponsored by the Persian Government. In classic Nazorean and Gnostic texts we are told that the god who created the world, and Judaism, was not the high god but a lower deity. Sometimes called Sabbath sometimes Ptahil. The earliest Christians did not worship this being. Later Roman Christians adopted him as their own, however.