Fascinating,but the authenticity is irrelevant. Many Christians will accept it if it confirms dogma.If not,it will be rejected out of hand, just was The Gospel of Thomas,an authentic discovery,part of the Nag Hammadi findings in 1945..
At this point it smells. I remember reading how some experts of the day (at the Eastman laboratories) were certain the photos of the Cottingley Fairies could not have been faked.(they were)
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The full Wiki article is worth reading.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Thomas
At this point it smells. I remember reading how some experts of the day (at the Eastman laboratories) were certain the photos of the Cottingley Fairies could not have been faked.(they were)
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The full Wiki article is worth reading.
Quote:The Gospel According to Thomas, commonly shortened to the Gospel of Thomas, is a well preserved early Christian, non-canonical sayings-gospel discovered near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in December 1945, in one of a group of books known as the Nag Hammadi library. The Gospel of Thomas was found among a collection of fifty-two writings including gospels claiming to have been written by Jesus' disciple Philip and an excerpt from Plato's Republic. Scholars have speculated that the works were buried in response to a letter from the bishop Athanasius who for the first time declared a strict canon of Christian scripture.[1
Quote:The Gospel of Thomas is regarded by some scholars as one of the most important texts in understanding early Christianity outside the New Testament. It is one of the earliest accounts of the teaching of Jesus outside of the canonical gospels, according to a few scholars, and so is considered a valuable text.[64] It is further unique in that the gospel is no more than a collection of Jesus' sayings and parables, and contains no narrative account of his life, which is something that all four canonical gospels include.
No major Christian group accepts this gospel as canonical or authoritative. Nonetheless, it is an important work for scholars working on the Q document, which itself is thought to be a collection of sayings or teachings upon which Matthew and Luke are partly based. Although no copy of Q has ever been discovered, the fact that Thomas is similarly a 'sayings' Gospel is taken by some as indication that the early Christians did write collections of the sayings of Jesus, and thus they feel it renders the Q theory more credible.[65]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Thomas
