I have been faithfully following Beth's Blogging right along and have been blessed by many of her posts. She and Ross have recently started a couple more. I was especially intrigued by the Forgotten Texts Blog-Site she started with the Gospel of Thomas, which you can easily get to through the Link I provided in the title of this Blog. I have known about this Gospel for many years along with some of the other Coptic texts and the Nag Hammadi Scrolls. Beth has recently discovered them and is devouring them with a Passion, much as I did 20 some odd years ago. It brings back memories. I have always thought of Thomas as the Alternative Gospel and it is interesting to note, that He apparently made it as far as India, where a different form of Christianity thrived until the Catholic Portuguese arrived and "straightened them out". Ron might remember when we made this discovery quite a long time ago. It is with a good deal of sadness that we note how the Catholic Church has managed to squelch and bury whatever religious aberrations they encountered in their conquering of the New World.
I urge you all to make at least an occasional trip to Ross and Beth's WebSites to stay abreast of the many good things they are bringing to light.
Katy Texas
15 years ago
3 comments:
Thanks Rick for the encouragement and advertisement. I had almost forgotten the feat I went through to get the forgotten texts of Thomas onto that site and I'm far from finished. I may try to get some more done on that this week.
Rick what conclusions did you come to through all that? Do you remember anything specific that stood out to you?
Beth, and others. There are many conclusions that can be made through a thorough reading of the various texts available. St Thomas (The Twin) most certianly did make it to India, to the region known as Mylapur, where he was peirced with spears and first buried. The Christianity that he spawned there survived on tradition alone, with practically no writings at all until the time of the Portuguese in the 17th Century. More can be read at http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14678a.htm#I about these so-called St. Thomas Christians.
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