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Clarification on Gospel of Thomas
How could the Church have removed it...
if it was never part of the Bible in the first place? The "Gospel of Thomas" was a Gnostic text discovered with the rest of the Nag Hammadi "library" in Egypt in 1945. Generally dated about AD 140-170, this particular text purports to record 114 "secret sayings" of Jesus. As the scholar Raymond E. Brown said, "we learn not a single verifiable new fact about Jesus' ministry and only a few new sayings that might plausibly have been His." Like much of the Gnostic Gospels, the Gospel of Thomas often cites or borrows from the canonical New Testament books. However, and more importantly, Gnosticism in general teaches much that is inconsistent with that believed and taught by the early Christians. The early Church fathers con- demned it as heretical. So,... the Gospel of Thomas was at best practically useless and at worst heresy. And it was *never* part of the Biblical canon. Chris |
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