What can we learn from the Gnostic Gospels such as the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Judas?

Answer 1

My faith, I do not claim religion, is in Jesus Christ and His teachings in God's Holy Word... the Bible.

Gnostic Gospels:
A one-sentence description of Gnosticism: a religion that differentiates the evil god of this world (who is identified with the god of the Old Testament) from a higher more abstract God revealed by Jesus Christ, a religion that regards this world as the creation of a series of evil archons/powers who wish to keep the human soul trapped in an evil physical body, a religion that preaches a hidden wisdom or knowledge only to a select group as necessary for salvation or escape from this world.

The term "gnostic" derives from "gnosis," which means "knowledge" in Greek. The Gnostics believed that they were privy to a secret knowledge about the divine, hence the name. (Huxley coined "agnosticism" on the basis that all knowledge must be based on reason. We cannot rationally claim to have access to knowledge that is beyond the powers of the intellect.)

Answer 2

They were based on the actual gospels written much earlier. When we compare the similarities, they show that those parts are authentic and disprove any claim that the texts were altered over the centuries.

The Gnostic Gospel of Peter, for instance, copies the passion almost word for word from Mark.

The differences show an ulterior motive that is a laughable shame at best.

Compare the two in Greek and you will see

Answer 3

That the deception is great as predicted in the Bible that strong delusions will come that will even decieve the very elect if it were possible. The Bible should be our sole source of the correct word of God and thus we should follow it only and check everything else by it.

Answer 4

We can probably lean more about the customs of the day but not how God wants us to live.

Answer 5

Have you ever read them?