13th Passer-By

These are 114 campfire conversations of early Christians around 200 AD.

I'm not trying to compare the gospel of Thomas to anything. I'm just presenting it as food for thought.

Imagine trying to describe the details of a black hole to a shepherd out on a Nazarene hillside. It would be difficult to convey anything like that in terms that made sense and would probably get you stoned to death as well! That actually might still be true because it would be no less difficult for a true immortal to explain life in the universe to even the smartest of us today. The only alternative that makes sense then, is for us to seek in our own standard of intent and try and figure it out ourselves.

I'm certainly not a biblical scholar nor do I claim any special religious understanding. I'm not even sure Jesus was being religious when he let us kill him. I do believe that he was showing us something that we were completely missing then and might still be missing today. It's like the manuscript is challenging us to understand. Anyway, I can't put this under a bushel so here they are:.

Translated by Thomas O. Lamndin. "These are the secret sayings which the living Jesus spoke and which Didymos Judas Thomas wrote down."