Is there a reason that the story of Jesus in the koran is exactly similar to the gnostic gospel of thomas?

Question

a fictional work of the 4th century which was popular between gnostic arabs?

Answer 1

There is no story in the Gospel of Thomas. The Gospel of Thomas of Gnostic fame (part of the Nag Hammadi Library) is a collection of sayings and proverbs "given by Jesus". It was considered an incredible find by Bible scholars because it gave support for the conjectured, but lost, gospel known as "Q" which would also be a sayings gospel.

There is an Infancy Gospel of Thomas, but it's not Gnostic (it's lumped into the New Testament Apocrypha), famous because of it's evil portrayal of Jesus (he kills a child, blinds a man, etc.). It bears resemblance to yet another apocryphal gospel (much of it lost) called "The Arabic Infancy Gospel". If this is the case, there might be a connection, in fact there is some speculation that these two gospels are related. It would seem likely that an Arabic gospel might make its way to Mecca; there were Christians in Mecca at the time of Mohammad. Perhaps they had a copy of it.

Answer 2

You give no reference, so I can cannot do a scholarly analysis of your claim, but I will see if what you are saying is true.
Gnostic Gospel of Thomas
7. Jesus said, "Lucky is the lion that the human will eat, so that the lion becomes human. And foul is the human that the lion will eat, and the lion still will become human."
So we can confirm that these works are fictional.

As to their being similarity of Jesus in the Qu'ran and here I did not find it. And if you are referring to the fact the Gnostics claim they were privy to some knowledge that others did not have. This is against Islamic teaching that the Qu'ran is guidance for all mankind.

[047:032] Verily, those who disbelieve, and hinder (men) from the path of God (i.e. Islâm), and oppose the Messenger [peace be upon him] (by standing against him and hurting him), after the guidance has been clearly shown to them, they will not harm God in the least, but He will make their deeds fruitless,

Answer 3

the thing about the gospel of thomas is they don't actually know when it was written, and even if was written in the 4th century, that's a long way off from the original. in the first century, christians were to true to Jesus and God, and then in the second and third centuries, things started going all over the place, and the christians were placing too much authority in themselves. by the 4th century it waas a mess, and i wouldn't trust anything written in that time, especially about a man who had lived a little less than 300 years ago.

Answer 4

there is a lot in the Koran that is the same as the Bible, that is one reason all these idiots who are so rabid antimuslim need to get a grip. The stories are the same because Muslims and Christians have the same history. But they don't believe that Jesus is the son of God. That is a mistake, but it doesn't mean that the whole religion should be just dismissed. Jesis would not dismiss them.

Answer 5

Jesus is a Prophet, get over it

Answer 6

probably because that was the only referance to Jesus they actually had

Answer 7

God in one and his stories are similar