Who knows for sure? If you take the set of sayings that are in Thomas and that are also in the gospels of Mark or Matthew or Luke (no sayings in Thomas are also in John) then you have a set of sayings that rather reliably come from Jesus. Scholars commonly are so influenced by biblical texts that they assume that any sayings in Thomas that don't sound like sayings in Matthew/Mark/Luke are therefore not sayings of Jesus.

Portions of Greek versions of the Gospel of Thomas were found in Oxyrhynchus Egypt about one hundred years ago and these can be dated to about 170 A.D. or so. A complete version in Coptic (the native Egyptian language written in an alphabet derived from the Greek alphabet) was found in Nag Hammadi Egypt in 1945. That version can be dated to about 340 A.D. The Coptic version is a translation of the Greek version.

This is a question hotly debated by scholars. Many scholars say that it was written at about the same time, even perhaps somewhat before, the gospels in the bible. Their argument is that most of the sayings in Thomas show no signs of having any dependence on, or knowledge of, the Biblical gospels and so Thomas' sayings derive from oral tradition and not from written Biblical texts.

No one knows. The four canonical gospels and Thomas and other gospels such as the Gospel of Philip (found at Nag Hammadi) were given their names some time in the second century. Scholars of the New Testament generally agree that none of the gospels were written by people who had ever met Jesus of Nazareth during his lifetime. But at a later date names were assigned to them that were associated with famous individuals in the earliest church.

We don't know how the texts in the Bible were chosen. Whatever happened occurred principally in the middle of the second century. However the choices were made, it could well have been that Thomas was unknown to those who made them. Or there might have been elements of Thomas that were distasteful to them. Or, given a preference for narrative biographical gospels, Thomas might have been thought irrelevant. We know hardly anything about the process of canonical gospel choice.

No. The biblical canon is not open for debate, it is a closed entity. A church that adds Thomas to its collection of scriptures would move outside the margins of orthodox Christianity and no well-known denomination has the slightest intention of adding Thomas to its scriptures. It is possible, of course, that a non-orthodox new denomination might arise that would include Thomas, but this hasn't yet happened.

You can always go to the Gospel of Thomas homepage and read essays that are there, http://home.epix.net/~miser17/Thomas.html

It all depends on what you mean by Gnostic. If you mean by Gnostic the belief that people have a divine capacity within themselves and that they can come to understand that the Kingdom of God is already upon the earth if they can come to perceive the world that way then Thomas is Gnostic.

It is that the Kingdom of God is spread out upon the earth now, if people can just come to see it; and that there is divine light within all people, a light that can enable them to see the Kingdom of God upon the earth. Further, the perspective of Thomas is that the Image of God in the beginning (Genesis chapter One) still exists and people can assume that identity, an identity that is neither male nor female. The image of God is differentiated from the fallen Adam of Genesis chapter Two.

We don’t know how the texts in the bible were chosen. Whatever happened occurred principally in the middle of the second century. However the choices were made, it could well have been that Thomas was unknown to those who made them. Or there might have been elements of Thomas that were distasteful to them. Or, given a preference for narrative biographical gospels, Thomas might have been thought irrelevant. We know hardly anything about the process of canonical gospel choice.

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There are no religious individuals who are within Kemetic Spirituality. Christianity is only one culture's approach to religion. This culture ended up conquering the world with this religion so it has been adopted by the majority of people in the US. However it should be emphasized that Christianity is a very young religion in comparison to the depth of human history. Christianity is 2000 years old and has already lead humanity into slavery and the destruction of the world.

Because the Outer Gods exist, that's why. Richard Nixon was a manifestation of Nyarlathotep, servant of Azathoth, and that is why they stopped making bubblegum flavored vodka: it made the summoning of Daoloth, The Render of Veils, extremely easy, resulting in the hospitalizations (and eventual death) of an entire family in New York and four hippies in Pennsylvania.

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Regardless of ethnic or racial heritage, each and every person born naturally into this world is incapable of pure goodness or even to comprehend truth on his or her own.

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The New Testament accounts (cf. especially John 20) show Christ was resurrected physically on the previous evening and ascended to the Father on the Wave Sheaf, which was the Sunday morning. He returned the same day and allowed Thomas to touch him. He appears to have been able to translate from the physical to the spiritual. Look at the papers The Wave Sheaf Offering (No. 106b) and Timing of the Crucifixion and the Resurrection (No. 159).

It all started one day while driving down the interstate in heavy traffic. Everyone was traveling at better than 70mph in three lanes across. The thought occurred that if anyone had a tire blow out or similar mishap, ten to twenty cars could quickly become part of a pileup, setting off a chain reaction reminiscent of speedway racing. How do race car drivers avoid wrecks? By listening to their spotter on the radio and following their guidance.

According to the LDS teachings, with which I was raised, part of the plan of salvation and our sojourn on this earth involved our being free to choose. Free to choose if we were going to follow the commandments of God. Satan's plan was that he was going to force us to do his will. Satan's plan is that we would be forced to follow the commandments. On the other hand, Jesus wanted to give us our (free) agency to choose if we were going to follow the commandments, or not.