Comments by "Ikenga Spirit" (@ikengaspirit3063) on "Gospel of Thomas: Why Is It Not In the Bible?" video.

  1. No, no. By the existance if the Roman Catholic Church, there were other major centres of Christianity from Carthage to Mesopotamia and they all threw out Thomas.
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  2. It isn't just among the Catholics, among the Orthodox, Copts and Oriental Churches it fell out. So it was unpopular in every significant centre of non-Gnostic Christianity, even the book of Enoch didn't L that badly.
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  3. @pUrP!€ @nArX!$t the tradition is evidence
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  4. Like has any of you guys simping for the Gospel of Thomas in the comments actually read the Gospel of Thomas? It's highly Gnostic and in direct opposition with all the Canonical Gospels so no way that anyone that accepts Matthew, Luke, John or Mark will accept this heresy.
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  5. "the Gospel of Thomas" is a forgery, not written by the actual Apostle named Thomas.
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  6. No, Thomas didn't. Thomas fails the test of authenticity more than any other Gospel.
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  7. Doubt
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  8. "Why would anyone take the opinions of the people with the most interest in, ability to and speciality in keeping the books of the Bible alife, instead listen to New age Christians and Ex-Christians that have every reason to distort the Bible to their cause".
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  9. Thomas I'd definitely not Q, if not there'll be some Gnostic overtones in Matthew and Luke. Thomas is definitely not early as it quotes from even John in it's counter arguments. And after the Church said that you are all sons of God and the spirit of God is within you all, how would God being in you all be new too controversial?.
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  10.  @gospelofthomas77thpearl22  I go with the schoolars that say Thomas was late and was responding to John. For one, even for a sayings Gospel, it doesn't mention any landmark, the Quran is similar in being recorded preachings and it still records more incidental geographical details. So is probably a forgery written by people not familiar with Canaan. It's clear antagonism to the other Apostles, saying they knew nothing. This alone is Thomas acknowledging to be in opposition to ideas/groups within early Christiandom more popular among the teachers than it was. I go more with the chronology that Gnosticism was about a century older than Christianity not that that it was forged by Christian influence. But hey, I get the schoolarship isn't complete and I am probably not as knowledgeable as you are on all the schoolarship but I am not impressed, especially not by popular academics after reading/listening to all the blunders that Ehrman gets to.
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  11.  @KatariaGujjar  right everyone else as similarly scattered around as That's would agree on stuff except Thomas and it somehow isn't more likely that Thomas was the wrong one.
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  12.  @oneidea1121  Thomas wasn't popular among non-Gnostic Christians and Gnostic Christianity isn't what won out.
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  13. 4 real one, dozens of fakes.
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  14. No, they were sincere and that's why the Late and forged Gospel of Thomas was excluded. Like has any of you guys simping for the Gospel of Thomas in the comments actually read the Gospel of Thomas? It's highly Gnostic and in direct opposition with all the Canonical Gospels so no way that anyone that accepts Matthew, Luke, John or Mark will accept this heresy. And Paul wasn't unaware of Jesus nor never met him, Paul lived in Jerusalem co-current with Jesus even if not a disciple and can you actually give examples of differences between Paul and the Gospels or is this just another made up accusation built on assumptions not facts.
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  15. Maybe the writer of Thomas was based after all. Heaven has a "No girls allowed".
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