Gospel of Thomas is Non Canonical and False Gnostic Writing,Which is Written around 140AD. Most of you will be familiar with this Coptic manuscript discovered in 1945 at Nag Hammadi in Egypt, Don't Confuse this Gnostic saying Gospel to the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, Found in Greek and Latin and another Gnostic book named Book of Thomas the Contender But Both all the works are Fake and also Contradicts the Bible
This Gospel of was referenced by Mohammed in the Quran. This Gnostic manuscript contains 114 sayings attributed to Jesus.
Several sayings are similar to sayings found in the Canonical Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Other sayings were unknown. The 114 sayings are secretive in nature and are impossible to understand.The Sayings found are Traditional sayings of Jesus, Not Secret saying.
The Early church fathers warned that no “secret” information was passed down and that Christians understand riddles and symbols by comparing them to Scripture.
The satanic forgeries are so complex and mysterious that Spirit-filled Christians will discern that they have no real meaning. They were only created to deceive.
Teachings from the False version that contradict Scripture are:
1. People have an Look or Essence of God in them.
2. Salvation is finding the light within oneself.
3. Yeshua (or Jesus) says “ You will be Forsake or condemned, if you pray,”
4. Jesus says “If you fast, you are sinning.”
As you Know that Church Father is the only Source of Early Church information and this Gospel Contradicts bible a lot here are Some Quotings,
Origen, AD 240
Against Celsus 7:9 – The spirits speaking through the pagan prophets claim to be God, but their speech is “strange, fanatical, and quite unintelligible words, in which no rational person can find the Interpretation: for so dark are they, as to have no meaning at all; but they give occasion to every fool or Pagans [impostor] to apply them to suit his own purposes.”
Against Celsus 7:10 – True prophets speak the plain truth and sometimes in parables and enigmas, but spiritual Christian can always figure out the riddles. Satan will trick us with riddles that have no real meaning.
Irenaeus, book in AD 178
Against Heresies 3.3 – The Apostles/Disciples did not pass down any hidden wisdom/Riddles, just the Scriptures.
Against the Heresies 4.33 – The doctrine of the apostles has been guarded and preserved without any Forging of Scriptures [by the Church Father] , as a very complete system of doctrine. Neither (do not) receive addition to, nor suffer (curtailment) from, its truths. Read the Scripture (Word of God) without falsification, lawfully and diligently explaining the Old Testament in harmony with the rest of the Scriptures.
Clement of Alexandria
Stromata Book 2.4 – There was never any secret/Mysterious teachings handed down by the apostles, just the Scriptures. Only the heretics say there is a Mysterious doctrine from the apostles which you must know to correctly understand the Scripture.
Tertullian, AD 190-210
Prescription Against Heretics 1.25
– The apostles did not keep any secret doctrine, but taught it all openly. Only heretics teach a Mysterious gospel or letter or teaching.
Prescription °Concerning/against Heretics 1.26
– The apostles did not give any special information to [his] favorite friends.
Hippolytus Says in his Refutation of All Heresies 5.7.20:
Origen listed the "Gospel according to Thomas" as being among the heterodox apocryphal gospels known to him (Hom. in Luc. 1).
Cyril of Jerusalem
The Manicheans also wrote a Gospel according to Thomas
During the Fourth and Fifth centuries, various (many) Church Fathers wrote that the Gospel of Thomas was highly valued by a Sect Mani. In the Fourth (4th) century, Cyril of Jerusalem mentioned a "Gospel of Thomas" twice in his Catechesis: "The Manichæans also wrote a Gospel according to Thomas, which being tinctured with the Flavor or Style or [fragrance] of the evangelic title corrupts (or Mislead) the souls of the simple sort."and "Let none read the Gospel according to Pseudo Thomas: for it is the work not of one of the twelve Apostles, but of one of the three wicked disciples of Sect Manes."The 5th-century Decretum Gelasianum includes "A Gospel attributed to Thomas which the Sect named Manchean use" in its list of : heretical books.
Discovery of Text
Scholars Reconsider that the works were buried in Order a letter from Bishop Athanasius declaring a strict canon of Christian scripture. Scholars have Composed dates of composition as early as AD 60 and as late as AD 140.
Contents
The introduction of Gospel states: "These are the hidden/Mysterious words that the living Jesus had spoke and Didymus Judas Thomas writen them down."
The Hidden or Secret things are Found only in Gnostic Manuscripts which are Also Found in Nag Hammadi.Compare any Canonical New testament Gospels or Letters or Any Actual New testament/Old testament Lost Books like,
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