[KarlInOhio]

assigned to the red and pink categories in The Five Gospels

Huh? Did I miss one? Was King Arthur in Monty Python and the Holy Grail doing the counting?

[mhking]

Huh? Did I miss one? Was King Arthur in Monty Python and the Holy Grail doing the counting?

Mel Brooks. 'Came right after "...these fifteen--[crash!] Uh, ten commandments!"

[Remole]

No--the 5th Gospel used in Funk's book is The Gospel of Thomas, a collection of sayings purportedly by Jesus.

[wideawake]

The Jesus Seminar published a very profitable volume entitled The Five Gospels consisting of very loose "translation" of the actual Gospels - a "translation" which demonstrates that the "translators" have an embarassing lack of command of Koine Greek - plus a translation of an apocryphal text known as the Gospel of Thomas.

The Gospel of Thomas is not a narrative of Christ's ministry and passion like the real Gospels - it is a collection of snippets of stories about Jesus which range from bits lifted straight out of the real Gospels to grotesque legends - including a bit about the boy Jesus murdering the local town bully.

It's the kind of book serious scholars wouldn't be caught dead reading.

[Zack Nguyen]

I bet you didn't realize that there were originally Fifteen Commandments either. You see, Moses dropped the other tablet. Sadly it has been lost to history.

:)