“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
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.
“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.