Nag Hammadi: Gospel of Thomas and Gospel of Truth

Lets take one more dive into Nag Hammadi Library

These two books called gospels are not narrative of Jesus' life and stories of his miracles. Instead Gospel of Thomas is collection of wise saying attributed to Jesus Christ. It focuses mainly on people recognising their divine origin, through spiritual inquiry and discovery.

Gospel of truth is similar in theme and initiates readers to awaken from their forgetfulness of God and remove the veil of ignorance to release damping weight of ignorance that rules in our consciousness.

On a time frame of Nag Hammadi: When the papyrus that these codexes are written on was examined, it firmly placed writing of these books between 350-400 AD.
However, the composition is usually dated as much older somewhere between 120-150 AD. They were thought of as heretical even in the ancient times therefore it is assumed they might be younger then the original Mathew, Luke, Mark and John gospels.

In this session we will read

💎 Gospel of Thomas (3 translations in the free PDF)
choose your adventure:
- Peterson, Meyer translation pg 74-80
- Lambdin translation 81-88
- Peterson, Robinson translation 89-101
💎 Gospel of Truth
pages 24 -30

*page numbers refer to the free PDF edition link here

free Nag Hammadi edition download here
of you can get it from Amazon here

Expectations are that you will do the reading assigned for that session and participate respectfully.