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by xhevahir
894 days ago
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Like the other commenter said, The Gospel of Thomas is a real religious scripture from a date very early in the Christian era. When Origen, Eusebius, and the other Church Fathers decided which texts and doctrines were properly Christian, they didn't include the Gospel of Thomas. Assuming they were aware of Thomas at all, they would have judged its content to be heretical. It's likely, though, that Thomas' readers saw it as forming part of the nascent Jesus movement. Not only that, it shows signs of having borrowed from the same "sayings gospel," "Q," that the authors of the Synoptic Gospels used as a source |
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