The Gospel of Thomas 1/3 (Christian Gnostic)

NOTE: I have combined the Greek text with the Coptic wherever there was any difference in meaning. Also, since the recurring phrase, "Jesus said," is something of a distraction, and also almost completely unnecessary, I have removed most of them to form a more cohesive narrative. By taking them out, I hope that the reader will come to better appreciate the unity behind the text, which these phrases slightly obscure. The text is generally better off without them, since most of the logions relate to one another anyway.


The Gospel According to Thomas, commonly shortened to the Gospel of Thomas, is a well preserved early Christian, non-canonical sayings-gospel discovered near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in December 1945, in one of a group of books known as the Nag Hammadi library
The Coptic language text, the second of seven contained in what modern-day scholars have designated as Codex II, is composed of 114 sayings attributed to Jesus. Almost half of these sayings more or less resemble those found in the Canonical Gospels, while the other sayings were previously unknown. Its place of origin may have been Syria, where Thomasine traditions were strong.
The introduction states: These are the hidden words that the living Jesus spoke and Didymos Judas Thomas wrote them down. Didymus (Greek) and Thomas (Aramaic) both mean "twin". Scholars suspect this reference to the Apostle Thomas to be false and the true writer remains unknown. The document probably originated within a school of early Christians, possibly proto-Gnostics. Even the description of Thomas as a "gnostic" gospel is based upon little other than the fact that it was found along with gnostic texts at Nag Hammadi. The name of Thomas was also attached to the Book of Thomas the Contender, which was also in Nag Hammadi Codex II, and the Acts of Thomas.
The Gospel of Thomas is very different in tone and structure from other New Testament apocrypha and the four Canonical Gospels. Unlike the canonical Gospels, it is not a narrative account of the life of Jesus; instead, it consists of logia (sayings) attributed to Jesus, sometimes stand-alone, sometimes embedded in short dialogues or parables. The text contains a possible allusion to the death of Jesus in logion 65. (Parable of the Wicked Tenants, paralleled in the Synoptic Gospels), but doesn't mention crucifixion, resurrection, or final judgement; nor does it mention a messianic understanding of Jesus. The Early Church believed it to be a false gospel. Eusebius, for example, included it among a group of books that he believed to be not only spurious, but "the fictions of heretics" that should be thrown out as absurd and impious.

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[smartwarlord]

Great.

added to a playlist.

[Apocryphile1970]

@smartwarlord AWESOME! You are the Fonz!

[nachoholic77]

@acidicreverie ...People need to come to realize Christ. For Gnostics, it's not about believing in who Jesus was but rather knowing the truth in what he taught and did.

For people to discredit another religion is disgusting I am merely trying to help broaden some narrow minds

[NanakLove]

thank you Thomas for sharing the Truth through Jesus!

[cnce145]

wowww it's everything i've benn trying to live upon . i fell inspired right now

[ASexyChef]

@bobo577 Have you looked into codex sinaiticus the oldest known and fairly recently found bible in the world, that they have translated into English now? ITs from the 4th century, its honestly amazing find, and its brilliant!

[bobo577]

@ASexyChef Also, The Quran today was not the one of Abdullah ibn Massood but is actually Uthman's version. Uthman actually commanded other Surahs to be burnt so they could have one official Quran. As for what you mentioed to KayBeeEee1983, I mentioned this before, The Roman Catholics had NOTHING to do with the canon, It was a PRE Nicean council that decided which books had apostolic authority and authorship. Even skeptical secular scholar will say John was written within the 1st century

[bobo577]

@ASexyChef In regards to the Quran, many Surahs have been lost. Aisha had the only copy of one surah on breast feeding an adult that was eaten by a goat, That's mentioned in the Hadith. Uthman, one of the caliphs sent many Muslims who had memorized Surahs which weren't written down and no one else knew into battle and they were slaughter.

[ASexyChef]

@KayBeeEee1983 Do you ignore the fact we know the New Testament today are from copies from about the same time as this gospel would have been written, because the earlier ones did not survive, yes they are based off text believed to originate about 70 to 100 A.D. but you than have to accept they would of been copies of copies of copies translated from different langs, so ignore this one because of its date yet ignore the fact whats in the New Testament has the same issues too!

[ASexyChef]

@KayBeeEee1983 The truth of it is that there are more texts we have lost than we can even imagine, its kind a miracle that we have gotten a few of them back. This is just one version of Thomas. We have books that even Jesus sited that the early church got ride of. Why because it did not conform to the version that the Catholic Church was creating, yet thousands of years later we have the protestant reformation start because it disagree with the Catholic Version so who knows what we have lost.

[ASexyChef]

@bobo577 I did it again precise not precious, my dyslexia coming out lol keep put in the wrong word lol...

[ASexyChef]

@bobo577 I miss wrote that, there is evidence that the Quran was written in an older form of Arabic, which when Islam became the major world power and became the lang of science they made it into a very precious lang than. So there was this huge discovery somewhere that had old written versions of the Quran, that did not have all the dots so when experts look at it, the meanings of somethings could be very different.