The whole picking of the Gospels was an exercise in 4th Century religious politics now foisted on the world as the only truths.
The present day church is nothing like the original concept.
My church
Posted on 12/25/2019 5:25:21 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I call it the Jimmy Carter School of Forgiveness. Just forgive everyone anything they do because it feels (and looks) good.
Jesus, however, hinged forgiveness on repentance.
‘Go and sin no more.’
‘Go’ just doesn’t cut it.
He IS alive today. He lives in every one of us. In Him we move and breathe and have our being. Point well taken though. There are times when we need to upturn the tables of the money launderers...upp, oops... I mean money changers.
in both Mathew and Thomas then actually as many sayings are across multiple gospels.
Yes; lots of spurious “gospels” include material from the real Gospels.
He left this world as a lamb but will return as a lion. So..ya better be good.
Nice people don’t make enemies …Of course they do. How long did non-enmity exist between Neville Chamberlain and Adolf (Schicklgruber) when the former was running to the media boasting of “peace for our time”?
Jesus is more alive than any human being, even independent of us.
In my view, modern attempts to reduce Christ, snd the crucifixion, and above all the resurrection from actual historical events to metaphorical and allegorical stories, reduces Christianity to just another philosophy, that can be safely ignored like any other.
An apostate baptist church in my city which garnered a lot of attention by caving to the homosexual agenda is named “Broadway” baptist. A sodomite presidential candidate’s name even harkens to a favorite anatomy of the homosexual.
The misnamed “Center for Constitutional Rights,” a queer activist organization which attacked pro-family minister Scott Lively with a “crimes against humanity” charge has the ominous address:
666 Broadway
This is all just too frequent to be coincidence.
“spurious ‘gospels’” often sound to me more true than those chosen to represent the four elements and compass directions, but one would have to read them for one’s self, as I have, to make that judgment - they aren’t all that different.
Both Thomas and Mathew were written around the same time 150-200 AD
President Trump did the same thing! MAGA!
Then, Taylor, you're mis-reading the Bible.
The only people Jesus weren't nice to were the Pharisees and Sadducees. They were holding themselves up as the religious elite and turning God's house into a den of thieves.
In every instance with His encounters with everyone else Jesus was kind and forgiving. He was honest with them, but he was nice.
I think, what the author is saying is that Jesus is not “nice” the same way the modern, secular world defines “nice”.
RE: Both Thomas and Mathew were written around the same time 150-200 AD
FROM BRITANNICA:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Gospel-According-to-Matthew
Matthew the Evangelist, one of the 12 Apostles, described in the text as a tax collector (10:3). The Gospel According to Matthew was composed in Greek, probably sometime after 70 CE, with evident dependence on the earlier Gospel According to Mark.
Other sources put it much later
“Thomas” actually dates from the second century AD and is one of the “Gnostic” pseudo-gospels. If it sounds “more true” to you than the canonical Gospels, then I urge you to some serious self-examination, with all due respect.
Those who believe that Matthew’s gospel was written 2 centuries after Christ ought to consider this...
Our early church fathers had quite a bit to say about the four gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John). Of the four Gospels alone, there are 19,368 citations by the church fathers from the late first century on.
The whole picking of the Gospels was an exercise in 4th Century religious politics now foisted on the world as the only truths.
The present day church is nothing like the original concept.
My church
Knocking over the tables of the money changers in the temple pretty much sums it up.
JoMa
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