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October 23, 2005, 6:09 pm PDT
The Received Texts
Quote From: momisme2In the Gospel According To Thomas there is another verson of the Creation story too. That is one of the texts that got thrown out of the Bible. If youre interested in it im pretty sure you can read it online. Pull up the Gnostic Scriptures and you will find a whole mess of books that were written in the same time as the Bible. (a side note...some are calculated to have been written even closer to the original time of Jesus then the remaining Gospels in the modern day Bible were) The Gospel According To Thomas will be among those many books.
My personal opinion on why this particular book got tossed is because of the way women are portrayed in it. In this Gospel, Jesus holds Mary above his male disciples. Even so much as the men disciples(or apostleswhichever you prefer) were downright pissy and more then a tad jelaous over his sharing information with her that he wouldnt with them. There are a few verses in there where the disciples go to Jesus angry and basically wanting to know whats up with that. tehehe ;)
Just thought I would fill you in in case youre interested in reading other accounts of the story of Creation. A word of warning though, I wouldnt reccomend reading this Gospel unless you have an open mind. If you have never heard of it before it could offend you as it has many versions of Bible stories with quite a different twist. However, it does have alot of the same stuff as well. The Gnostic books were rejected because they promoted the Gnostic heresy, a heresy that essentially said salvation was by 'special knowledge," rather than by grace, among other things.
The rest of the books left out of the Protestant and Jewish Bibles were excluded for similar reasons. There was no conspiracy to exclude certain books because of some agenda.
Reading lies certainly shows you have an open mind. Believing them shows you are a fool.
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