I like how they're acting like this is a new discovery. The Infancy Gospel of St. Thomas (or The Gospel of Thomas) has been in print for many years. The only discovery here is that they found the oldest known "version" which isn't a complete gospel, just a few words from it.
The reason this apocryphal book was excluded from the Bible is because the council didn't like the two instances in which Jesus killed people. Somebody bumps into Jesus when he was a child and Jesus said "You'll go no further!" and the person dropped dead. There's another part where it is implied that Jesus pushed somebody off a roof and killed them.
The clay bird miracle is fun and all but if we accept that then we have to accept Jesus as a killer.
The above is all correct! Closeup. The find has some excitement to it, but not that which the general public might assume from hasty reading. Rather, it shows that even apocrypha were used for writing exercises very early on, and confirms accuracy of transmission and of early date for the apocrypha.
Both TGP and CBS have written uncritical, incorrect headlines. The source, Humboldt University, correctly reports "Earliest manuscript of Gospel about Jesus’s childhood discovered". Not the oldest written childhood record, but the oldest copy of the "childhood gospel" aka Infancy Gospel of Thomas. Also, not "reveals" a miracle, because Thomas followers (like Anne Rice) have known about these alleged miracles for centuries. There are extant apologetics about the death passages, though I'd take them with a different grain of salt.
Note that we have older manuscripts of Jesus's birth, circumcision and presentation, and childhood, such as Papyrus 141 (3rd century) containing Luke 2:40-42 et al., not to mention Vaticanus/Sinaiticus.
Still looking for Jesus's name in the text. All I can read is "KEK".
I like how they're acting like this is a new discovery. The Infancy Gospel of St. Thomas (or The Gospel of Thomas) has been in print for many years. The only discovery here is that they found the oldest known "version" which isn't a complete gospel, just a few words from it.
The reason this apocryphal book was excluded from the Bible is because the council didn't like the two instances in which Jesus killed people. Somebody bumps into Jesus when he was a child and Jesus said "You'll go no further!" and the person dropped dead. There's another part where it is implied that Jesus pushed somebody off a roof and killed them.
The clay bird miracle is fun and all but if we accept that then we have to accept Jesus as a killer.
who else didn't have 'Jesus the Killer' on their bingo card
The above is all correct! Closeup. The find has some excitement to it, but not that which the general public might assume from hasty reading. Rather, it shows that even apocrypha were used for writing exercises very early on, and confirms accuracy of transmission and of early date for the apocrypha.
Both TGP and CBS have written uncritical, incorrect headlines. The source, Humboldt University, correctly reports "Earliest manuscript of Gospel about Jesus’s childhood discovered". Not the oldest written childhood record, but the oldest copy of the "childhood gospel" aka Infancy Gospel of Thomas. Also, not "reveals" a miracle, because Thomas followers (like Anne Rice) have known about these alleged miracles for centuries. There are extant apologetics about the death passages, though I'd take them with a different grain of salt.
Note that we have older manuscripts of Jesus's birth, circumcision and presentation, and childhood, such as Papyrus 141 (3rd century) containing Luke 2:40-42 et al., not to mention Vaticanus/Sinaiticus.
Still looking for Jesus's name in the text. All I can read is "KEK".
kek!!
Thank you for a very informative comment.
wow, I didn't know any of this^ interesting & would explain some of hints I've 'noticed'...about temptation, fighting demons, etc.
There are lots and lots of heresies
If you're curious, you can ask the catholics about them all. They keep an encyclopedia of them.
If you read the NT closely you'll note that many of Paul's letters were specifically addressed towards defeating heresies.