They were written BEFORE the bible and claim that jesus was not the son of god,but he was a messanger of god.What are your thoughts on this?
2006-07-08 05:28:20 · 12 answers · asked by MrBudbag 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2006-07-08 05:32:02 · answer #1 · answered by dale 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know the Gospel of Thomas very well, and it says nothing that you claim.
First of all, it was not written before the Bible, because the Bible starts with Genesis.
Second of all, it is a recording of the words and sayings of Jesus. Thomas makes no claim about the divinity of Jesus. Here is an extract:
These are the secret sayings that the living Jesus spoke and Didymos Judas Thomas recorded.
1 And he said, "Whoever discovers the interpretation of these sayings will not taste death."
2 Jesus said, "Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will reign over all. [And after they have reigned they will rest.]"
3 Jesus said, "If your leaders say to you, 'Look, the (Father's) kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the kingdom is within you and it is outside you.
2006-07-08 12:37:04 · answer #2 · answered by NightShade 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YEs, these texts do reflect that. My opinion is that they are correct and were left out of the bible as we know it b/c it opposed the material power of the church. Jesus kept saying, "I am the Son of Man", not the son of god.
However, many pagan traditions had a "dying/rising god", such as Osiris in Egypt, Adonis, and Dionysis in Greece. I think that in order to "compete" with them, early xristian church invented the divinity of Jesus. A smart concept,along with that of "highjacking" their holidays, that allowed Christianity to grow and overwhelm the other religions.
2006-07-08 12:39:10 · answer #3 · answered by Dante 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus son of Mary PBUH not son of God, and Paul was the corrupter of Christianity. Christians today follow Paul not Jesus and should be labeled as Paulians.
http://www.answering-christianity.com
2006-07-08 12:43:53 · answer #4 · answered by helper 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These were written by Gnostic sects to deny the Divinity Of Christ Jesus.
2006-07-08 12:32:08 · answer #5 · answered by clusium1971 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was not the son of God or God.
It is an established fact that documents were forged to support the idea of the Trinity.
2006-07-08 12:32:46 · answer #6 · answered by Left the building 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually they were wrote a couple of hundred years after the books of the new testement The old testement was written 1000 years before the new.
They were decided to be fakes a century ago,
2006-07-08 13:03:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i love all of those old books,in reality there where over three hundred books written for the bible,which could not be included because the scribe was afraid for his life,so only included the ones that the Romans would allow.
2006-07-08 12:32:37 · answer #8 · answered by deerwoman777 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Right up there with the National Enquirer and the rest of those newsstand rags.
2006-07-08 12:38:12 · answer #9 · answered by NickofTyme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were written before what bible and in what language?
2006-07-08 12:33:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you should go read it again and get your facts both historically and theologically straight.
2006-07-08 12:32:41 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋