because it threatens their beliefs.True or false?If true ,can we deduce that Christians are closed minded?
2006-11-26 05:36:56 · 7 answers · asked by Paul I 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Malak.........prove it
2006-11-26 05:57:10 · update #1
The Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Peter are both forgeries. The Gospel of Thomas is Gnostic and the Gospel of Peter contains a Docetic character. Heresy is another word.
Why you would say it threatens Christian beliefs is beyond me. No one has hidden or suppressed these writings, that is a Dan Brown fantasy. Both so-called gospels are available all over the internet, and the Church has declared them unfit for scripture way back at the end of the 3rd century.
But the Church has not declared them off limits for anyone to read. That idea comes from closed minded people who fall for the Gospel of Dan Brown, author of the Da Vinci Code.
Christians are free to read whatever they want, but that is not the issue. The issue is closed minded people who think Christians have to read every heretical and Gnostic writing ever written in order to be open minded.
There is a difference between having an open mind, and having a mind like an open trash can.
2006-11-26 06:03:33 · answer #1 · answered by Br. Dymphna S.F.O 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many reasons the Early Church Fathers in AD 100 something(sorry i forgot the date) did not choose the gospel of Thomas.One of the reasons was because the four canonical gospels(Mark,Matthew,Luke,John) in the Bible are related to each other,but some of the sayings in the gospel of Thomas countered those of the canonical gospels.Another BIG factor to exclude the gospel of Thomas from Scripture is because it was indeed a Gnostic gospel.Just for your information,Gnosticism is a VERY different belief compared to the Early Catholic teaching.Some scholars consider this gospel to be a gnostic text, since it was found in a library among other, more clearly gnostic texts.The gospel of Thomas,just like the gospel of Judas was:
(1)It was deemed heretical.
(2)It was deemed inauthentic.
(3)It was unknown to the canonizers.
(4)It was thought to be superseded by the narrative gospels.
(5)It belonged to a branch of Christianity outside the circle of Athanasius of Alexandria.
I think that it sufficient proof to silence your doubts.Please e-mail me at blastoramaboy@hotmail.com if you wish to know more
2006-11-26 06:09:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
women folk, adult men, and students ... evaluate this The "gospel of Thomas" and, probably, the "gospel of Mary Magdalene" and somewhat a number of the different "gospels" no longer in the hot testomony are books/letters/scrolls that have been written circa 25 advert or later and have diverse gnostic theology, etc. that are no longer in retaining with the theology of the hot testomony. So, regardless of if it became "Mary's gospel" of the previous due 1800's or "Gospel of Thomas" of the 1950's. or gnostic "gospels of circa 3 hundred A.D., yet they're "yet another Gospel" ... and since the hot testomony author says "nonetheless we nor an Angel from Heaven proclaim unto you the different gospel than that which we [the Apostles] have proclaimed, permit him [or her] be anathema". probably may be extra useful in case you spent a while analyzing the Bible, looking out with reference to the daughters of Zelophehad, or approximately Priscilla, or with reference to the noble women folk of the Gospel bills, or the godly woman of Proverbs 31, or Esther, Ruth, etc., etc. ,
2016-10-17 13:56:49 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They're gnostic books and don't reflect the teachings of Christ. Also, they weren't written by Thomas or Peter, they were written over a hundred years after their deaths. Actually, there were quite a lot of gnostic books out there, but like I said, they're weren't really relative to His teachings. I'd read them, but that doesn't mean I'd take them seriously. I read a lot of fiction, doesn't mean I believe it.
2006-11-26 05:48:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I want you excuse me for saying something, you will not find 2 books of Gospel look similar and iam sure for what iam saying.
2006-11-26 05:59:05 · answer #5 · answered by iron_man 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, with the power given to her by her Lord Jesus, the Catholic Church decided in 393 A.D. at the council of Hippo which books belonged in the canon of the Bible. Those gospels were not and are not considered inspired.
2006-11-26 05:39:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
You can say what you want about me I know who I am in Christ...I spend enough time with Jesus to know when I should read something or not...
2006-11-26 05:39:36 · answer #7 · answered by I give you the Glory Father ! 6 · 0⤊ 4⤋