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What a great Xmas! I went to NY, bought a watch on sale, saw the “holiday tree”, and couldn’t get my friends song out of my damn head.I also read a great article in Harpers about the Book of Thomas. I knew something about it before, but I found this article very interesting, and I’d like the comments from the NGB community.Thomas claims to be the brother of Jesus, and may be the best argument for the historicity for the existence Jesus as a man. This “gospel” was written in the correct time frame, and includes the secular teachings of Jesus, WITHOUT any reference to the crucifixion, ressurection, or any divinity whatsoever. These teachings also appear in M,M, L, and J, but are further “enhanced” by the divine story that we all know predates Christianity.The story is that the assemblers of the Bible didn’t like the secular teachings of Thomas, and so banned it and ordered its destruction. A copy was found about a century ago.What do you know about Thomas? Is this the smoking gun that should cause Christians to seriously reconsider their god’s deity, or a farce?

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