Is the gospel of Thomas adamantly gnostic?
You can probably not live up to all of them anyway, and as a Gentile follower – a non-Jewish guy – you are not required to, according to Acts 15 and Acts 21:25. If you go for being of sound moral, mind, and body, you can dispense with Jesus too, as judged from sayings of his, such as Mark 2:17. Many sayings in Thomas are also in Mark, Matthew and Luke. And it is quite possible that Thomas retains sayings that the biblical gospels don’t retain and . . . that Thomas is more reliable as a guide to some sides of the thinking of Jesus and some of his utterances than the biblical gospels are, where the end of Matthew is a later, forged addition, according to such as J. Whiness.
