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Old 22nd May 2006, 11:52 PM
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Gnostic Gospels

Hello. I was just wadering if yall have ever read the gnostic gospels? and what do you think about them? Like is it a good read even if you dont agree with it. They seem interesting and I'm planning to read some of them.
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Hello. I was just wadering if yall have ever read the gnostic gospels? and what do you think about them? Like is it a good read even if you dont agree with it. They seem interesting and I'm planning to read some of them.
There is some pretty funny stuff in some of them - in the Gospel of Peter it talks about Jesus as a child, playing games with his friends and striking them down when he loses!
What a slur on Christ's character! I mean, as if He would lose
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There is some pretty funny stuff in some of them - in the Gospel of Peter it talks about Jesus as a child, playing games with his friends and striking them down when he loses!
What a slur on Christ's character! I mean, as if He would lose
LOL! Your right Go here and read at least the first 3 chapters of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas! http://www.gospels.net/translations/...anslation.html
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Heretical Garbage, They were condemned by St. Paul pretty early on.

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LOL! I didn't know heresy was this funny!
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Originally Posted by reg
Hello. I was just wadering if yall have ever read the gnostic gospels?
Some of 'em, yeah.

and what do you think about them?
Balderdash.
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If you think they're exciting stories starring Tom Hanks, you're in for a surprise.

I've fought my way through quite a few of them. They're a hard read. Dense, rambling speculations for the most part. If you read them, you'll understand very quickly why Mark, Matthew, Luke & John are the four canonical ones. "Gnostic Jesus" rambles on and on about weird, crazy stuff.

Infancy Thomas isn't really a "gnostic gospel". It's a collection of stories.
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There is some weird non-canonical literature out there as well, epistles, acts and apocalypses.
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LOL! Your right Go here and read at least the first 3 chapters of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas! http://www.gospels.net/translations/...anslation.html
this 'gospel' is wrong mainly in its notion that Jesus could have acted bitterly or angrily. however (contrary to Dan Brown's ideas) many of these 'gospels' also emphasize traditional Christian teaching on the divinity of Christ.
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They aren't really "GOSPELS".

Originally Posted by reg
Hello. I was just wadering if yall have ever read the gnostic gospels? and what do you think about them? Like is it a good read even if you dont agree with it. They seem interesting and I'm planning to read some of them.

If you have a lot of free time you can afford to throw away...Go for it !
As for me I will stick with THE TRUE GOSPEL of Jesus Christ, approved by the Church in the 4th century.

God speaks through these.

Reading the "Gnostics" would fall into the same category as
reading "the gospel of judas", promoted by National Geo. , or
reading the "duh-vinchy code"... promoted by Hollow-wood.

The enemy speaks through these.
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