GOSPEL OF THOMAS...from Stigmata...the movie

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Hello all. I was just wondering if anyone had a link to a site where I can read where the church denounced the Gospel of Thomas. I confess that the movie Stigmata is one of my favorites, and the Gospel is mentioned there.

Also, if anyone knows anything about it…post here for me. Thanks!
 
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sadie2723:
Hello all. I was just wondering if anyone had a link to a site where I can read where the church denounced the Gospel of Thomas. I confess that the movie Stigmata is one of my favorites, and the Gospel is mentioned there.

Also, if anyone knows anything about it…post here for me. Thanks!
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The denunciation, like the inferences drawn from it, is a fictitious detail in the story, which is present for the sake of the plot.​

In actuality, the text referred to was discovered only in 1945, and is one of a large number of texts not referred to, (let alone denounced or accepted) by ancient Christian writers.

There are two Thomas-texts:
  1. The “Infancy Gospel of Thomas the Israelite Philosopher”, which claims to relate some incidents from the childhood of Jesus
  2. Our text, which is a series of 114 sayings ascribed to Jesus. It is not really a gospel at all in its form. It’s part of a cache of documents discovered in 1945 at Nag Hammadi in Egypt. ##
 
I don’t know if this is the same work or something different but Eusebius, writing about A.D. 312, refers to a Gospel of Thomas which he says was not accepted by the Church in his History of the Church, book 3, chapter 25.
 
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You liked that movie? :confused:
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I found it kind of entertaining…yes. Now, make no mistake, I entered it from a fiction standpoint. But, that is my gift, the ability to separate fact from fiction…and thus enjoy both.
 
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