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minus-squareAniki 🌱🌿linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·edit-216 days agoIt’s not a conspiracy theory. It’s based off the lost gospels that were found in the Nag Hammadi Library [The Gnostics]. This theory might be from the Gospel of Mary but it might be another one. http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhlcodex.html
minus-squareZoolander@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·16 days agoIt’s from the Gospel of St. Thomas.
minus-squareAniki 🌱🌿linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·16 days agoRight you are! Only drop the Saint. The Gnostics believed in self-actualization not in divine intervention.
minus-squareZoolander@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·16 days agoYes but he’s typically referring to as St. Thomas or Doubting Thomas.
minus-squareAniki 🌱🌿linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·16 days agoBy Catholics. The reformers don’t believe in Sainthood.
minus-squareZoolander@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·16 days agoWhat does that have to do with anything? It’s meant as a clarification. Catholics don’t believe that the book was actually written by him either.
minus-squareAniki 🌱🌿linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-216 days agoBecause it’s not called “The Gospel of Saint Thomas,” it’s “The Gospel of Thomas.”
minus-squareZoolander@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·16 days agoHe’s one and the same. Again, it’s for clarification. The book is supposedly written by the Thomas that was an apostle of Jesus.
minus-squaregbuttersnaps@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-216 days agoFrom the wiki article: “Most modern scholars do not consider the Apostle Thomas the author of this document and the author remains unknown.” Unfortunately it doesn’t look like that is very well accepted
It’s not a conspiracy theory. It’s based off the lost gospels that were found in the Nag Hammadi Library [The Gnostics]. This theory might be from the Gospel of Mary but it might be another one.
http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhlcodex.html
It’s from the Gospel of St. Thomas.
Right you are! Only drop the Saint. The Gnostics believed in self-actualization not in divine intervention.
Yes but he’s typically referring to as St. Thomas or Doubting Thomas.
By Catholics. The reformers don’t believe in Sainthood.
What does that have to do with anything? It’s meant as a clarification. Catholics don’t believe that the book was actually written by him either.
Because it’s not called “The Gospel of Saint Thomas,” it’s “The Gospel of Thomas.”
He’s one and the same. Again, it’s for clarification. The book is supposedly written by the Thomas that was an apostle of Jesus.
From the wiki article: “Most modern scholars do not consider the Apostle Thomas the author of this document and the author remains unknown.”
Unfortunately it doesn’t look like that is very well accepted