Many people hold great esteem towards the gospel of thomas. What grab's people so hard with this text?

Question

What message do you think ppl are so attract to it?

Answer 1

gospel of thomas...?never heard of such a thing.

Answer 2

The gospel of Thomas, which was written by an anonymous author a couple of hundred years after the real Thomas lived, seems to say that Jesus was not really God, and will not really judge people based on their acceptance of Him as Lord.
People have the idea that if this book is right, they are "let off the hook" so to speak. But remember that the book is a forgery, and disagrees with everything the Bible teaches.
I wouldn't take a chance with my soul, by buying into a fake gospel.

Answer 3

I read two different versions of it. I thought that it was a typical Gnostic writing.

I think that some people are drawn to it because if it was true, people would be able to refute the Bible with it.

Since nothing can be found in it to do so, they apply wishful thinking as a reason to grab on to anything from it.

If the Bible was missing as many passages that the Gospel of Thomas was missing, we Christians would never hear the end of it. The same goes for the Gospel of Judas.

But it doesn't take anything away from me if the doubters of the world glop on to it. I think it very fortunate to know the truth. ( :

Answer 4

Well, for one thing, it has an aura of mystery and forbiddenness, and people like that stuff, unfortunately.

On a more scholarly level, the fact that it's just a collection of Jesus' sayings, without any story written around them, shows that it's likely a very ancient text, perhaps in its original form predating the canonical Gospels. It may not be "Q" (the hypothetical sayings-document from which the Synoptics drew so much of their material) but it's likely rooted in a Q-like document.

OTOH, people go too far with that. It's also obviously a text that was edited, redacted, and transmitted in a heavily Gnostic milieu, and since we have very few copies of it, we can't easily determine what in it was from its original recension and what was inserted by Gnostic redactors.

Answer 5

I cannot imagine what makes the gospel of Thomas attractive to people. Since both the Catholic Church and the Protestant Church have chosen to omit it from cannon, its authorship and message are not only questioned, but its Divine inspiration is doubted.

Answer 6

Maybe that the Church, the Roman Catholic Church who compiled the bible into what we know it as today, knew about this and other gospels but chose not to include them, essentially keeping the message from us. I'd rather have all the info and have the Church (I am Catholic) tell me what it thinks about the info and then decide for myself, with it guiding me. I don't like it when the Church assumes that it is smarter and "holier" than the rest of us.

Answer 7

It didn't make it to the Bible so people want to read it, along with all the other books and gospels that weren't up to God's standards. They'd like to read something they think is totally spiritual, but isn't (so - they think - everyone's happy! God's happy cuz they're reading something about Him, and they are happy cuz they can think they are being spiritual)

I encourage you to read the Bible only and not trust other non-biblical books like that. If it isn't in the Bible now, God doesn't want it there and it's not trustworthy.

;)

Answer 8

Some think this was written by the Christ. Thomas means the twin. Also, there are some excellent insights to be found, "When the inner becomes the outer..." (for mystics only)

Answer 9

Sorry most people accept it only as literature, not Gospel.
I Cr 13;8a
12-17-6

Answer 10

Here is truth but well hidden, to turn off the half functioning brain.