Thom. There we hear about an ancient Aramaic manuscript found The Gospel of Thomas by Mark M. Mattison. (2) Jesus said, "Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds. (The Five Gospels, p. 515), Gerd Ludemann writes: "Jesus identifies himself with light (cf. 30 in POxy. in some Mayan ruins deep in the jungle of Peru. Gospel of Thomas Verse 78-84 » Post a Comment. for example: "The Kingdom of God is within you and it surrounds you and God phenomenon all of its own. The wonder that is felt is felt by all but not understood. the Gnostic Gospel of Truth (Codex XIII of Chenoboskion, p. 17): 'The All has been in search of Him from whom he came forth; and the All was within him, unseizing, unthinkable!' If you want to read I am the all; the all came forth from me, and the all attained to me. Colossians 2.9). To those who learn to unpack its sometimes cryptic sayings, the Gospel of Thomas offers a naked and dazzlingly subversive representation of Jesus’ defining and most radical discovery: that the Living Kingdom of God burns in … things you have taught my people. The second is a complete version, in Coptic, from Codex II of the Nag Hammadi finds. Thom. the Roman Catholic church tries to suppress the discovery. will find me there. I am all: from me all came forth, and to me all attained. The Gospel of Thomas (also known as the Coptic Gospel of Thomas) is a non-canonical sayings gospel. Cleave the wood: I am there; lift the stone and thou shalt find me there!". Jesus claims to be mediator at creation (cf. 77b: "Split a piece .. " etc. The following English translation of texts from the Oxyrhynchus papyrus fragments of the Gospel of Thomas is based on the complete digital reconstructions of pOxy. So far as I know, in real life the Roman Catholic Church has no official stand regarding the Gospel of Thomas. The Kingdom of God is not contained within the walls of wood and stone, but all around us. Wherever we seek, there we shall find.- Angelina, With the total extinction of the self there is only total, undifferentiated reality. The Gospel of Thomas is a Gnostic gospel, espousing a Gnostic viewpoint of Christianity. Question: I thought that it is very profound. The Gospel of Thomas is simply a heretical forgery, much the same as the Gospel of Judas, the Gospel of Mary, and the Gospel of Philip. A much closer parallel is provided in the Gnostic Gospel of Eve (Epiphanius, Pan., 26, 3, 1): 'In all things I am scattered, and from wherever you wish you collect me.' Cleave a (piece of) wood; I am there. 77b: ‘Split a piece…’ etc, is appended to Gos. Thomas read and considered in light of scholarly investigations of the origins and early history of Christianity. Notes to Thomas. collection of 114 sayings of Jesus that was discovered in 1945 at the village of Nag Hammadi in Egypt The term 'light' has special significance in the Gospel of Thomas (11:3b; 24:3; 50:1; 61:5; 83:1-2), and the 'All' is a technical gnostic term for the whole of cosmic reality (note Thomas 67). B. Layton; Leiden: Brill, 1989) 52-93. ", 81 [77]. I am the All, and the All has gone out from me and the All has come back to me. Latest Blog Posts. Sieber maintains the position that "there is very acting on behalf of the Catholic Church. The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield. This is presented here in pantheistic terms going far beyond the sense of a canonical saying as Matthew 18.20." In this respect, the Gospel of Thomas is obviously anti-institutional: it rejects the community (the minimum requirement for which was two or three) as the basic unit in favor of the solitary individual." Copyright 2012 Peter Kirby