The Fraud of Thomas

By Christopher from Schtix and Stones 

Despite the odd new love for the Gospel of Thomas in the Hebrew Roots Movement,  this is a love affair that will result in the same fashion as a Glenn Close, Michael Douglas movie made back in....I donno 1987.  
I find it rather scary that the same people who told me to stay away from the Rabbinical sources, are the same ones gravitating towards something that is considered a "Gnostic Gospel".  It makes as much sense as Clint Howard playing Humprey Bogart in a multi-million Universal release of the life of Bogie.  
Now I have read the Gospel of Thomas and I read it back in 2004, the Gospel of Thomas claims to be the "secret sayings of Jesus" one of this things I realized is the Buddhist influence in the Fraud...I mean Gospel of Thomas.  The Messiah was painted a mix of Archie Bunker, meets, Guru Pinka (Mike Myers character from the Love Guru), meets Dr Gregory House.  And at times a drunk Oreson Welles.  At times I thought I was reading the Stanley Kubrick script from A.I.  Or like I was watching Pulp Fiction on a Meth-bender.  
Is that enough pop culture references?  Ya get the cut of my jib so we can get into the meat of this now?  Now I do not wanna get off on a rant here......well again maybe I do.  But lets look at what some Hebrew roots believers are reading in the Gospel of Thomas: 

•  “Let Mary (Magdalene) go out from among us, because women are not worthy of the Life."
  
• : “See I shall lead her, so that I will make her male, that she too may become a living spirit, resembling you males. For every woman who makes herself male will enter the Kingdom of Heaven.” 
  
• "Whoever discovers the interpretation of these sayings will not taste death."
  
•  "Lucky is the lion that the human will eat, so that the lion becomes human. And foul is the human that the lion will eat, and the lion still will become human." 
  
• "I am not your teacher. Because you have drunk, you have become intoxicated from the bubbling spring that I have tended." 
  
• Jesus said to them, "If you fast, you will bring sin upon yourselves, and if you pray, you will be condemned, and if you give to charity, you will harm your spirits"
  
• "After all, what goes into your mouth will not defile you; rather, it's what comes out of your mouth that will defile you." 
  
• Jesus said, "Two will recline on a couch; one will die, one will live." 
  
• Jesus said, "I will destroy [this] house, and no one will be able to rebuild it [...]." 
  
• He turned to his disciples and said to them, "I'm not a divider, am I?" 
  
• Jesus said, "Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce the wealthy" 
  
• Jesus said, "Adam came from great power and great wealth, but he was not worthy of you. For had he been worthy, [he would] not [have tasted] death." 
  
• Jesus said, "God D*** the Pharisees"
  

Now from looking at these quotes and looking at the ideals brought forward from this "Gnostic Gospel" the theology aligns with the Sadducees whom were in direct contradiction with the Word of Yahweh and the Scriptures.  Notice in these supposed verses in the Gospel of Thomas, we see Yeshua saying to eat a lion....lion is not Kosher.  Notice as well the emphasis on the blessing of monetary wealth, this was obviously Sadducee influence.  The Sadducees did not believe in a resurrection, notice in the Scripture it says Yeshua was speaking to the Sadduccees, that did not believe in the Resurrection.  Thus accounting for the verse that the house Yeshua was gonna tear down contradicts the Scripture, in the Gospel of Thomas it says it cannot be fixed, and Yeshua said in the real gospels, that he would resurrect this house in 3 days.  There is also a ton of New Age mysticism and Buddhist beliefs in the realm of women in the first two verses.  The mysticism also goes on to say, that basically whomever figures out Yeshua's sayings will not taste death.  This is new age mysticism 100% and it 100% goes against Scripture and heck it even goes against the Talmud.  Christians over the past 10 years have been flooding to the Gospel of Thomas because they admittedly love the Sadducees, because they do not know who they were, I have actually heard it said in Churches, "The difference between the Sadducees and Pharisees is that the Sadducees believed in Jesus and the Pharisees did not".  This is such a ridiculous claim and it is based on NOTHING but ignorance of who the two were, notice they never mention the Essenes yet they always talk about John the Baptist who was an Essene.  The young can be easily tricked by this book and the claims by other young ones in the faith.  The Gospel of Thomas is a straight up fraud and it needs to be known.

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