(May 27, 2016 at 7:53 am)Jehanne Wrote:(May 27, 2016 at 2:27 am)Godschild Wrote: Those are not reliable or accepted teachings of Christ, the go against the Bible we now have.
GC
The Gospel of Thomas has been deemed to be somewhat historically reliable. There was not one version of early Christianity, but many different ones. Your version comes on the scene very late, being descended from the Anabaptists of the 16th-century, whom Martin Luther even persecuted.
In all, there are at least 44 different "Gospels" that were written prior to the 2nd century. The Gospel of Peter, for instance, was supported in some of the early Churches and contains sayings of Jesus that are found in the Bible Gospels.
First my faith started with the day Christ was born, the writers of the NT were finished by the end of the first century, the same century that Christ lived on earth.
It doesn't surprise me that there are historical facts in some of the rejected writings, they did live during the times. The Bible is a spiritual book with history within it which is only natural.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.