Why don Christians accept the Gospel of Thomas?
Or does one need to go into detail on how this book is no good news at all, but the standard-issue pagan gnosticism? And it’s distressingly misogynistic, too. “Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:5-6). John knew both Jesus and Thomas personally. I take his word for it over someone writing a couple of centuries later. I don’t need the links, thanks anyway for them, I’m familiar with the thing. What also is known is that the gnostics found this new “Christian” cult to be a competitor for attention in the early Roman Empire so they coughed up some books of their own and slapped various names on them to stir things up and win customers. “Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity” (2 Timothy 2:19)
