Oddly enough, I've seen a few online comments from USA (Im in UK) recently, presumably evangelicals, and, for some reason, Thomas seems to really scare them, & they appear desperate to dismiss it.
Personally, I think Thomas makes a lot of sense, as does gospel of Mary.
Thanks, that means a lot. Thomas unsettles a certain kind of believer in a way the canonical four don’t, and I think it’s because it can’t be domesticated. There’s no crucifixion, no resurrection, no apocalyptic—just sayings that push you to figure things out for yourself. That’s the threat. Once Jesus stops being the cosmic sacrifice and starts being a teacher pointing inward, the whole substitutionary atonement framework has nothing to hold onto.
American evangelicals believe in Paul, not necessarily Jesus, and if there’s no cosmic sacrifice to discuss, there can’t be Paul.
Here I am, reading another article written by Tanner and learning about things I've never heard of/read before. This one is a real gem Tanner.
My brain was doing summersaults when I read the bit about Jesus saying that he will turn Mary into a man. It was already reeling from the introductory line saying that women do not deserve life. I don't know why really ~ because the Bible is full of all of that kind of ancient babble.
And then, after finishing that whole paragraph, a comedy skit played out in my mind in which all of the devout Christian females try to turn themselves into men in order to deserve life. 😆😹🤣🤣
Possibly your best yet, thank you.
Oddly enough, I've seen a few online comments from USA (Im in UK) recently, presumably evangelicals, and, for some reason, Thomas seems to really scare them, & they appear desperate to dismiss it.
Personally, I think Thomas makes a lot of sense, as does gospel of Mary.
Thanks, that means a lot. Thomas unsettles a certain kind of believer in a way the canonical four don’t, and I think it’s because it can’t be domesticated. There’s no crucifixion, no resurrection, no apocalyptic—just sayings that push you to figure things out for yourself. That’s the threat. Once Jesus stops being the cosmic sacrifice and starts being a teacher pointing inward, the whole substitutionary atonement framework has nothing to hold onto.
American evangelicals believe in Paul, not necessarily Jesus, and if there’s no cosmic sacrifice to discuss, there can’t be Paul.
In nutshell, the Real Good News :
(1) Re-cognize & Be Yourselves, sovereign co-conceptualizers (#3)
(2) Be co-re-conceptualizing for Paradise (#19) with periodic re-pose (#27)
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Also, did you know that in the original Coptic Thomas,
the Com-Parables were not moral stories,
they were actually carefully crafted to include absurdities
meant to be retorted by their listeners (audience),
for the retorters to prove to themselves that
conceptual sovereignty is innate, immanent and inalienable in everyone?
The translators made sure that was impossible — ie disappeared the absurdities, by normalizing them with the synoptic (re-written) parables.
Here I am, reading another article written by Tanner and learning about things I've never heard of/read before. This one is a real gem Tanner.
My brain was doing summersaults when I read the bit about Jesus saying that he will turn Mary into a man. It was already reeling from the introductory line saying that women do not deserve life. I don't know why really ~ because the Bible is full of all of that kind of ancient babble.
And then, after finishing that whole paragraph, a comedy skit played out in my mind in which all of the devout Christian females try to turn themselves into men in order to deserve life. 😆😹🤣🤣