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What motivated the non-canonical authors to write these ancient Home About J. Connect with us. Hi, what are you looking for? Warner Wallace. Julien Max Rooney June 12, at am. Leave a Reply. Trending Latest. Christianity Should Christians Judge Others? It taught that the god who created the world was evil, and by extension, his entire creation was evil too. Salvation, then, was the liberation of the soul from the physical realm into a spiritual realm. One can achieve this salvation only through a secret knowledge gnosis in Greek.
This secret knowledge, according to the Gnostics, comes from Jesus. Of course, Jesus was radically different from the god of the Old Testament.
Jesus was a warm and inviting god while the one of the Old Testament was hostile and angry. The Gospel of Thomas makes no qualms about its Gnostic leanings with all its emphasis on learning the secrets of Jesus.
Of course, the early church rejected Gnosticism as heretical. Orthodoxy taught salvation by faith. Thomas taught salvation came through knowledge of secret information. Thomas also veers away from orthodoxy in how it views women. For every female who makes herself male will enter the kingdom of Heaven. This statement clearly contradicts how Jesus views women in the canonical Gospels. Furthermore, it contradicts Genesis 1, which declares that God made both men and women in his image.
Thus, women are not inferior, as the Gospel of Thomas suggests. Did the universal church affirm the authority of Thomas? If you think about it, since Thomas lacks the first two attributes — apostolic authority and divine qualities — the early church had no motivation to think it was Scripture.
Their rejection of this book is evidenced in two ways. First, the early church never includes Thomas in any of its early canonical lists. In all the lists, we have four, and only four, Gospels. Second, the church specifically rejected Thomas as heretical. This rejection is contrasted with other books, like the Shepherd of Hermas or the Didache, that at least gained a hearing.
Its contents contradict the orthodox texts. Unlike the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus makes the message of the gospel clear. That he came to die and resurrect, to save sinners, and offer a pathway to eternal life John The Gospel of Thomas, like a cult or secret society, promotes the idea that followers of Jesus have to attain certain enlightenment through uncovering secrets, undiscoverable by most men 3, 39, Difference 3: The Gospel of Thomas Promotes the Gnostic idea that the body is bad, and the spirit is good.
During the first few centuries in the church, a heretical idea floated around that our physical bodies are essentially bad at best and that we should only focus on matters of the spirit.
They seemed to have forgotten that God had given us our bodies as gifts and that bodies will be resurrected Luke Therefore, if God sees something worth resurrecting, it is not inherently evil. See this article for more examples. In the same way, we have to exercise extreme discernment. Satan likes to twist the truth just ever so slightly, so our ears get tricked by it.
No doubt, every church in history has had to battle some heretical ideas, ours stands at no exception. Hope Bolinger is an editor at Salem, a multi-published novelist, and a graduate of Taylor University's professional writing program. More than 1, of her works have been featured in various publications ranging from Writer's Digest to Keys for Kids. She has worked for various publishing companies, magazines, newspapers, and literary agencies and has edited the work of authors such as Jerry B.
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