The Bagnolians were a sect

Sect

A sect is a group with distinctive religious, political or philosophical beliefs. Although in past it was mostly used to refer to religious groups, it has since expanded and in modern culture can refer to any organization that breaks away from a larger one to follow a different set of rules and...

 in the 8th century, deemed heretical

Heresy

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, who rejected the Old Testament and part of the New Testament. They held the world to be eternal

Eternity

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, and affirmed that God did not create the soul, when he infused it into the body. They derived their name from Bagnols

Bagnols

Bagnols may refer to various communes in France:* Bagnols, Puy-de-Dôme* Bagnols, Rhône* Bagnols-en-Forêt, Var* Bagnols-les-Bains, Lozère* Bagnols-sur-Cèze, Gard...

, a city in Languedoc

Languedoc

Languedoc is a former province of France, now continued in the modern-day régions of Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées in the south of France, and whose capital city was Toulouse, now in Midi-Pyrénées. It had an area of approximately 42,700 km² .-Geographical Extent:The traditional...

, France. Their doctrine generally agreed with that of the Manicheans.