Re: Revelations
James J Rovira (jrovira@juno.com)
Sun, 11 Jul 1999 08:22:26 -0400 (EDT)
Thor...it's really funny I mentioned the Gospel of Thomas. It's one of
the documents in the Nag Hammandi scrolls.
Dude, those scrolls are generally believed to have been written in the
second century AD by a Gnostic sect in Egypt. You don't really think
they're descriptive of the Jerusalem and Roman churches, do you? It
seems like they're considered valuable for the study of Gnosticism, and
informative in so far as they help us understand **the writings of the
early church against Gnostic heresies.** But they don't tell us anything
about the real apostles who grew up in Palestine and, tradition records,
died in various parts of the Roman Empire. One was said to have made it
all the way to India before the end of the 1st century.
Jim
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