>It seems that what Jesus is really wanting his disciples to understand in the Gospel of Thomas is that they are capable of having the exact same sort of epiphanies and realizations about the divine and about who they are; that it isn’t even so much about ‘who is Jesus?’ It’s about ‘who are you?>Jesus is telling us: There is no separation between us and God and no separation between us and one another – that is reality; that’s the way the universe really is.
>>41641146The older I get the more I appreciate The Bible.
>>41641146If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
>>41641279The gospel of Thomas didn't even make it into the Bible. It's too powerful.
>>41641146Exactly anon. Thomas is an instructional manual for someone like me. I promise you it's real. I made the journey. You're not likely to believe me but that's your choice. I'm just the one with the nerve to hug Satan.
>>41642011Ill share some notes“The kingdom is inside you and outside you.” (saying 3)This redefines “kingdom” as an already present reality, not a future political event. To “know” it is to recognize it here and now. “Whoever finds the interpretation of these sayings will not taste death.” (saying 1)Salvation is linked to insight and direct perception, not ritual or creed. “If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” (saying 70)Knowledge and creativity is a living seed in the soul that must be expressed; repression is dangerous. “When you make the two one…” (saying 22)This is about integrating the inner opposites (male/female, inner/outer, heaven/earth) masculine and feminine integration. Hiddenness and revelation. Thomas portrays Jesus not as a lawgiver but as a revealer of hidden light. His words are more like Zen kōans than sermons. they’re meant to destabilize the normal mind so a direct knowing can appear.
>>41641146Jesus is a made up faggot.
>>41641146The Gospel of Thomas posters will inherit the Earth
>>41641279The more I understand manifestation the more I believe in the Wizard of Oz.
>>41641283"Love" is casting two people into Satan's clutches for having second thoughts about giving a donation of real estate to "St." Paul.
>>41645520If you're thinking of Ananias and Sapphira in Acts, that involved Peter before Paul was converted. And Acts is questionable as history.
>>41641146It's the exact same thing the Law of One channelings talk about, and what they say Jesus came here to tell. The truth that the Church has actively suppressed since 300AD to boost their own political power
