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Gospel of Thomas

Some­thing before my next post on postmodernism…

You can read the Gospel of Thomas here.

The (infant) Gospel of Thomas has been the cen­ter of atten­tion in a few cir­cles (think Dan Brown groupies) and has, for some, become some­thing of an obsta­cle. I don’t believe there is any rea­son for accept­ing the Gospel of Thomas nor any­thing con­tained therein. Four rea­sons why I believe this, the third being most important:

1. Is what’s known as a psue­dopi­graph­i­cal work, a work his claims to author­ship (in this case the Apos­tle Thomas) is false and unfounded.
2. Writ­ten between 200 and 250 CE (3^rd cen­tury work). The last canon­i­cal Gospel is believed to have been writ­ten around 90 CE (‘Lib­eral’ dat­ing).
3. Con­tra­dicts the estab­lished wit­ness of the New Tes­ta­ment Gospels, some times with com­plete absur­di­ties, more on this below.
4. Pla­gia­rizes and incor­rectly attrib­utes say­ings from the New … (Read more)