Is Allegorical Religion better than Fundamentalism?

[JairCrawford]

Problem is that there are lots of stories regarding Jesus; for instance, do you believe that Jesus said the following:

Simon Peter said to them, "Make Mary leave us, for females don't deserve life." Jesus said, "Look, I will guide her to make her male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every female who makes herself male will enter the kingdom of Heaven." (Gospel of Thomas, 114)

If not, why not? It's in an ancient source, and, so, worthy of belief and faith?

That’s a fair point and one I have thought about much more than in the past. I don’t know enough about the non canonical writings. By that I mean, it’s difficult to find consensus on them. Critical scholars have studied GThomas for a very long time but there’s still not really any solid consensus for whether it’s an old text or a text that post-dates the canonical writings (and by consensus I mean, discounting the consensus of theologians).

That being said, if I were to look at GThomas with a fully open mind, there are some red letter passages even in canon that I find… unlikely to have actually been said, so, that’s probably how I would tackle that specific verse in GThomas as well.