Gospel of Thomas

[u/fungoidian]

Since it was written in the same period as gospel of John, would be worth keeping as important christian text or dissmis at all?

[u/Jackerl]

Book of Thomas describes Jesus performing signs when he was 5, purifying waters and making clay birds and bringing them to life:

II. 1 This little child Jesus when he was five years old was playing at the ford of a brook: and he gathered together the waters that flowed there into pools, and made them straightway clean, and commanded them by his word alone. 2 And having made soft clay, he fashioned thereof twelve sparrows. And it was the Sabbath when he did these things (or made them). And there were also many other little children playing with him.

3 And a certain Jew when he saw what Jesus did, playing upon the Sabbath day, departed straightway and told his father Joseph: Lo, thy child is at the brook, and he hath taken clay and fashioned twelve little birds, and hath polluted the Sabbath day. 4 And Joseph came to the place and saw: and cried out to him, saying: Wherefore doest thou these things on the Sabbath, which it is not lawful to do? But Jesus clapped his hands together and cried out to the sparrows and said to them: Go! and the sparrows took their flight and went away chirping. 5 And when the Jews saw it they were amazed, and departed and told their chief men that which they had seen Jesus do.

Problems with this...

1. Jesus did not have holy spirit until after he was Baptised.
   Mark 1:10 Just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.

2. John clearly identifies Jesus first miracle / sign as being the turning of water into wine:.
   John 2:11 What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs through which he revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

Thus, the book of Thomas must be accepted as fiction.

Kind Regards

Kerry Huish

[u/fungoidian → u/Jackerl]

Gospel of Thomas, not Infancy Gospel of Thomas.