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Let no one being tested say, "I am tested from God," for God is beyond testing by evils and he himself tests no one. But each is tested by his own longing, being drawn away and entrapped. So then the longing having conceived gives birth to sin, and sin being completely formed brings forth death...

These experts don't even mention that various early church fathers wrote that the gospel of Thomas was a forgery by the Manichaean gnostics. I think their gig is to sell books that suggest the Gospel of Thomas is not gnostic to make it more appealing to the Christian world so they can sell more...

That's the whole point of the bible - so we can know GOD's mind.

You're not being completely honest. Marvin Meyer says it contains incipient gnosticism. I would agree with that. "I [Marvin Meyer] prefer to consider the Gospel of Thomas to be a gospel with an incipient gnostic perspective."

Another book seller. These folks just imagine things they can't prove or support in any way.

This guy's a linguist who likes to sell books. He just comes up with ideas he can't support, and stupid, gullible people call it research.

You're obviously getting this info from somewhere. Why don't you post the link to it so I can read it.

Nonsense. This shows how clueless these "scholars" are. I can discern the gnostic ideas in the Gospel of Thomas. Why don't you list these "scholars" names so I can research them.

Some scholars. And I would add - some very ignorant scholars.

Oh so that's it. A person who chooses to believe cannot choose to unbelieve.

I can't help but chuckle when I see these back and forths between Ralph and others, because there seems to be agreement on what there is disagreement about. That is of course, unless you believe a person can stop trusting/believing and still be saved. But that didn't come across in your comment.

Jews were gnostics too.

So many people make a living by begging nowadays that it's usually very difficult for me to justify giving to them. Sad, but true. I just have to take it on a case by case basis. I really don't feel like giving my money to enable the bad habits of freeloaders/alcoholics/druggies.

Yes, you take them to revert back to the letters (law of Moses), which totally undermines and destroys the law of Christ.

The law of Moses can only pertain to the living. It doesn't have force over dead people, which we are in Christ; whose slaves we now are, obeying his commandments written in our hearts, which are faith in GOD and love of man. A command to observe weekly sabbaths is simply not there. There is...

Which is the exact opposite of what the bible both explicitly and implicitly states (e.g., 2 Corinthians 3:7), i.e., the law of Christ obsoletes the law of Moses. But sabbatarians can only see the law of Moses. Moses drives, while Christ takes the back seat.

Mark 7:11 G2878 κορβάν korban (kor-ban') (and korbanas kor-ban-as') n. 1. a votive offering and the offering 2. a consecrated present (to the Temple fund) 3. (by extension, the latter term) the Treasury itself, i.e. the room where the contribution boxes stood

Scripture explicitly witnesses to have faith/believe in, upon and into Christ. The faith of Christ is simply the noun form of those.

I don't think a threshold for proof could get much lower.

Manichaean gnostics "Origen listed the "Gospel according to Thomas" as being among the heterodox apocryphal gospels known to him (Hom. in Luc. 1). In the 4th and 5th centuries, various Church Fathers wrote that the Gospel of Thomas was highly valued by Mani. In the 4th century, Cyril of...