Were they ever really into it? Or were they just taking a course like “Literary Arts” and adding to their resume to be seen and applauded as great by man?
Were they learning that they threw out a lot of books that told answers to the truth in order to comply to one of the 40,000 protestant denominations or multiple Catholic choices? Or are they learning that Christianity was born out of combining the Roman Gods with the followers of the way?
This documentary of Scholars, PhD’s, and Theologians with big fat resumes who are no longer Christians… is interesting but, in all their searching… it appears many of these have still missed the mark. But God’s ways are not man’s ways and this just may be a way of tearing down the walls of PhD driven calamity? And the ode to the 501c3 as that train crashes??
To these scholars who have debated themselves into the gates of hell…bye, bye. I do hope they find the truth, the way, and the light and perhaps open up the hidden and forbidden books and read that the same message is in them as was the message Jesus told. So as painful as it is to even listen to this… here it is.
If these scholars of Yale and world structures, are into Greek and Roman mythology, they would enjoy the forbidden books of how all that came about. But they don’t teach that at Yale, and the Evangelical Mega Churches are focused on prosperity. So, one can look at it as coming out from her my people… but, the question is… will they build on the rock of the Lord or will slide away under the sand? At least they are seeing they were not teaching the true word of God. Jesus was not of a denomination…he was the Word of God and came for all people and the way to the Father is the same for all. It’s just not being taught among those dug into vain philosophies and deceit. Oh how great thou art is a praise give to God…not to flesh of scholars and man made dogma’s and creeds.
Note: After doing a bit of digging on the Mythvision documentary putter togetherer…. he appears to be on a liberal mission to destroy Jesus and the Word of God. That will not bode well.
Dr. Matt Monger, one of those in the documentary above, says the Bible was written backwards on his website. Is that the same thing as saying that we only have half of the story, because they left out the first books? Like we talked about on the last blog? So we have to go back and find the first half and that is the journey? Like Star Wars trilogy Prequel and Sequel last and not first? At least he is now trying to figure it out.
Meanwhile the Gospel of Thomas is making its way into Scholarly discussions…
How do they know it was only one disciple who Jesus shared this with? Jesus told us all, that with faith the size of a mustard seed we can say to this mountain move and it shall move. And much, much more like the power of the Holy Spirit.
The Gospel of Thomas was not included in the Bible at the council of Nicea because they said it lacked apostolic authority and divine qualities. Why is this? Because the deciders said it brought about a different message and did not go with the other books of the Bible, especially the gospels of Matthew, Luke, John and Mark. Was that because it didn’t repeat it in the same words, or said something Luke didn’t say? The same as the Gospel of John is the only one that spoke of the wedding in Canaan…so do we throw that out too because Luke didn’t say it? Good grief!
It was rejected by modern scholars who also were not of that historic time period? And thought by the same memorizers of other peoples dogma, that it was from an early school of Christian teachings and possibly the proto-Gnostics. (I can visualize them all debating this topic like it is going to make or break the world, all while putting out their own books filled with their religious opinions…which are okay to read?)
This leaves questions as to what they meant by “the words of Thomas were different than those of the others”? When all the gospels were from the early Christian teachings. And many of the other books they deemed “not in line” were also in line with the book of Thomas? And Thomas also said some of the very same things mentioned in the other gospels.
This also raises questions as to why they were selective in what was and was not included? For example, they said it brought about a different message that did not go with the other books? Which books are those? For it goes along with the same message as the other gospels and books like Enoch, Jasher, Jubilees, Adam and Eve, and The Secrets of Solomon, and the words of Jesus himself. And the old testament prophets like Ezekiel, Zechariah, and John in the book of the Revelation of Jesus.
When we read the book of Enoch who shared all the things that God showed him that would be in the 8 ages, that message is complete from the days of Adam unto the final coming of the Lord to rid it of all unrighteousness and establish His Kingdom on Earth forever. When we read the book of Jubilees also written by God and given to Moses, it is very much the same as Jesus?
Today, with all the intellect of man, inspired by man, of man and to man with a touch of A.I. and a boat load of censorship … we are watching a grand scheme of a selective collection of what would be included in the books we were able to read, based on a thorough censorship of anything written that spoke of the days before the flood. Along with editing via translation or misinterpretation, any details of the days of Noah both before and after the flood. In mainstream we are given evolution, the big bang, aliens, and Babylonian accounts of Gilgamesh legends on stone, as having more substance than the Words of Jesus, who knew all these legends in His day and spoke not one ounce of support for any of it.
The Albert Pike Masonic push to destroy Christianity is in full swing. But they will not prevail. The Lord shall win. This was proclaimed in the first book written of Enoch in the days of Noah, and in the last book written – The Revelation of Jesus Christ in the beginning of the days of great tribulation!
The words of Jesus to us, was to seek God and follow Him and do as He does. Jesus did not say that man was evolved from apes over millions of years. Nor did he say that God made man in His image which was that of an ape? He did not once say to follow the ways of the pagan gods and goddesses that the world followed. He warned of the men who sit in the seat of Moses and make all manner of laws and are not of God.
There is no question as to why they wanted to silence Jesus and destroy Him and His Words. Those in the Sanhedrin knew full well of the promise to Adam of the 5,500 years. The accounts written of these events were all shoved under the rocks as not divinely inspired therefore heed it not. For it told truth that they were fighting hard to hide and to deny. They had lost their hold on the masses and were fighting hard to regain their authority.
It is no wonder how at the council of Nicaea they silenced all together the truth of the days of Adam and Eve and the out right censoring of Enoch other than he was a righteous man and God took him. If not for Jude… which quoted him from his book, we would have nothing on the man at all except imaginations of his righteousness.
We are now in the days prophesied by Enoch as he foretold to his son Methusaleh that the days would come and his books would be hidden for a season, but would resurface again to that final generation which the truth in the book would be a great blessing to them and tell them all things. For Enoch was shown all things from the beginning unto the end of all the 8 ages and what would happen in each age.
2 Enoch Chapter 35
1 BEHOLD from their seed shall arise another generation, much afterwards, but of them many will be very insatiate.
2 He who raises that generation, shall reveal to them the books of thy handwriting, of thy fathers, to them to whom he must point out the guardianship of the world, to the faithful men and workers of my pleasure, who do not acknowledge my name in vain.
3 And they shall tell another generation, and those others having read shall be glorified thereafter, more than the first.
The book of Enoch foretells the Son of God coming and glorifies the Word of God. When we look at the books of Enoch, and read the Words of Jesus, we see a strong cross referencing of the events being fulfilled. The same as we see cross references with the prophets after the flood. We read so many truths of how the Words of Enoch were for instruction for all generations and given to Noah to take upon the Ark by Methusaleh. We learn of the heavenly priest Melchizedek and the promise of God’s Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.
In 2 Enoch XLV: 1-3, God shows how he does not want from men sacrifices, nor burnt-offerings, but pure and contrite hearts.
“1 WHOEVER hastens to make offering before the Lord’s face, the Lord for his part will hasten that offering by granting of his work. 2 But whoever increases his lamp before the Lord’s face and make not true judgement, the Lord will not increase his treasure in the realm of the highest. 3 When the Lord demands bread, or candles, or flesh (sc. cattle), or any other sacrifice, then that is nothing; but God demands pure hearts, and with all that only tests the heart of man.“
Is this not what the scriptures say? Yes it is.
PURE HEARTS ARE THE CIRCUMCISION OF THE HEART…WHICH IS THE CIRCUMCISION OF CHRIST…
Colossians 2:8-19
6As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: 7Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. 8Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. 9For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. 10And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: 11In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: 12Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. 13And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; 14Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; 15And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
16Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: 17Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. 18Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, 19And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
In 2 Enoch, XLVII:2-3, it says, “2 Take these books of your father’s handwriting and read them. 3 For the books are many, and in them you will learn all the Lord’s works, all that has been from the beginning of creation, and will be till the end of time.“
When the books of Enoch, Jasher, Jubilees and many others were removed by a Council of men in Nicaea… it left an opening like a big black hole for spiritual warfare against God’s Word.
Constantine had already decided he was going to be the godhead of his new religion of which was his idea to do. So when we look at what was really behind the merging of Roman Gods and Goddesses into and mixed within the Words of the Followers of the Way of Jesus, we see very important books counted as unorthodox. This shows us the spiritual warfare in play and what the banning of books was truly all about. We see an entirely different purpose for uniting Christians into a Roman fold so to speak.
Let us go back and look at brief history of this event. From an article in the Jerusalem Post, titled, “How the Council of Nicaea intensified antisemitism and a Bible ban”….
It states, ” Constantine took a tough line. He said he considered himself greater than all the apostles. Could he then define doctrine, the canon and stop the quarrels by making himself a dictator? Would you like Hitler or Stalin to be the one to define the Hebrew or Greek canon? Who would agree to a Roman dictator? only their followers– the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches. How does a dictator define truth? How does he ‘manage’ freedom of religion?” (Ponder that a moment. What are your thoughts?)
More excerpts: “The Nicean Council set the new imperial religion on the wrong track. It condemned Sabbath-keeping and established what Constantine called ‘the venerable day of the Sun’. Sun worship had been part of Roman worship since the collapse of the classical pantheon in the first centuries. It also banned the Passover and substituted the pagan Easter.” (Yes. Easter holiday was around even in the days of Jesus. Recall in the book of Acts 12:4 where Peter was put in prison until after the Easter Holiday. “And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.”)
Excerpt: “From first to third centuries, Roman imperial religious Caesars wanted to extirpate Christianity by deaths, slavery or by disinformation. If the Roman authorities could not kill Christianity, the next best thing was to assimilate it into the pagan system of the College of Pontiffs. Constantine was now Pontifex Maximus, the Supreme Pontiff, ruler of all religious cults. (The popes took up this title that Constantine’s successors abandoned as offensive to God.)” Read more:How the Council of Nicea intensified antisemitism and a Bible ban – The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com)
Constantine and his not so divine motivation to merge the two religions was not about the Jews and their religion at all, they were not the threat. It was about destroying the Word of God (Jesus) and His teachings. It has been an all out war against God’s children from the first day Satan entered the garden and it shall be until the Lord Returns with ten thousands of his saints to execute judgement on all as it states in Jude 1:14 quoting… Enoch…saying:
“14And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, 15To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. 16These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.“
Throughout history, the gates of hell have reared its ugly head against the Word of God and all of God’s people. It is not a new thing, it is ancient. Jesus died once and for all to free all dead from the punishment of eternal separation from God. That is what Adam looked forward to in God’s promise of the five and a half days (5,500 years)… so he could return to the garden and be one again with God. It is what every soul has looked forward to in order to be free of the evil in the world from Adam unto this very day. Jesus, the Word of God, came in the flesh, born into this fallen world so he could take on all sin and offer himself up to be killed, as the sacrifice for all flesh and enter into hell to tare down its gates and preach to the captives and free all whom were imprisoned there. And He did so just as He promised to Adam and did all that He said He would do.
The accounts of books hidden such as the book of Nicodemus, sometimes called the Acts of Pilate, tells the accounts of these matters. It also tells the accounts of the testimonies of those who encountered the saints who rose from the graves when they were opened as it states in Matthew Chapter 27:52. Most pastors don’t talk about this at all. Why is that? Why do they hide such a marvelous testimony as this? Why have they banned the books that speak of this?
It’s as though ignoring the obvious or creating false distractions of certain facts were intentionally made to keep us from finding the truth? Leaving one to search for puzzle pieces and connect the dots? Oh NO… what am I thinking? Keepers of the true historic facts would never do that. They wouldn’t do that back then any more than they would dare to do that today. Right? Ponder it. Smile.
Matthew 27:52
“52And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, 53And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.”
When these things happened the city was filled with chatter and talk of all the things taking place. The veil of the temple was torn from the top to the bottom and much damage was done to it. Rocks and stones were moved out of their places and all of these signs must have caused previous nonbelievers to realize Jesus must have truly been the Son of God. Luke 24:18 tells that all in Jerusalem were talking about the events surrounding Jesus’ death and resurrection. The city was “buzzing” with excitement about these events. These signs may be one of the reasons why thousands of people believed Jesus, including many of the priests (Acts 6:7).
And even His own disciples had heard many things and still didn’t know what to make of everything.
Luke 24:17-23
17 And he (Jesus) said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?
18 And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days? 19 And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people:
20 And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him. 21 But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done. 22 Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulchre; (speaking of Mary Magdalene and Luke 24:10 It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles.) 23And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive.
Today Scholars slice and dice this trying to explain it away in order to not have it interfere with their interpretations of rapture and raising the dead from their graves. The books that tell of this have been deemed unorthodox and so people are left to listen to the garble of the world’s opinions and documentaries on the Discovery Channel that breed confusion and doubt to all of it. For that is what it is designed to do…diminish the truth and build up the apes, aliens, and Darth Vader is your Father.
Back to the Books of Thomas…
In Chapter 1 verse 2 and 3 it is written: (2) Jesus said, “Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds. When he finds, he will become troubled. When he becomes troubled, he will be astonished, and he will rule over the All.”
(3) Jesus said, “If those who lead you say to you, ‘See, the kingdom is in the sky,’ then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, ‘It is in the sea,’ then the fish will precede you. Rather, the kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty.”
Why are these words said to not be in alignment of the teachings of Jesus?
Did Jesus not say the same in Luke 17:20-21?
20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: 21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
Perhaps because Thomas also tells a bit more of the indepth teachings Jesus did with his disciples when not among the crowds? We get a little window of how those times were in many verses, such as in Matthew of the wheat and the tares. When they went into the house His disciples asked him to explain the parable of the tares in the field for they did not understand it.
Matthew 13:36-43
36 Then Jesus sent the multitude away and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.”
37 He answered and said to them: “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. 38 The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one. 39 The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels. 40 Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age. 41 The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, 42 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!
We see in this parable the end of the age…the same as Enoch spoke of the ages and the final age. We see also the tares are sown by the devil. Same as all the forbidden books tell. We see these are cast into the fire and burned where weeping and wailing are the same as all books have said of hell. The rightous will shine as the sun in the kingdom of their Father… which is the Kingdom of God. The same that was promised to Adam and spoken of in Enoch and foretold by the prophets, even in Daniel with the statue whose feet and toes are made of miry clay and the stone uncut by human hands strikes the feet and the toes and brings it all down. Where the prophets get to say strange and mysterious prophetic words, and Thomas is charged with not in alignment of Jesus? The truth is that Thomas spoke of the same teachings and gave more insight to the Lord’s explanations in private settings.
What all of the debaters are forgetting to mention is the fact that all disciples were being persecuted, imprisoned and killed for spreading the Words of Jesus. Many things wrote were in such a manner that they could not be clearly understood by those who did not have eyes to see or ears to hear…the same reason that Jesus spoke in parables. A form of code for those who have the Holy Spirit discernment.
The question is this… “If you were offered two books and could only choose one to read… and one written by a modern day scholar let’s say like Jordan Peterson…. on his psychology of religion and the Christ…. and the other one the forbidden book of The Gospel of Thomas, whom was a disciple of Jesus, which one would you choose to read?”
Today, there are thousands of books written by man with their own ideas and those are best sellers and few if any say a word about any of it being unorthodox or forbidden. The world encourages such writings and makes a lot of money filming documentaries that are filled with doubt, confusion, arguments, and discrepencies, even within their own discussions and opinions of everything they are presenting.
These are like modern day Plato’s and Socrates building their own vain philosophies and opinions based on athiestic views of a world without a God, and or many gods and man’s feeble mind following as sheep to whoever they choose to follow. Even some debating that man as hairy ape like cave men sitting around a fire worshipping the flame as it is now a god to them? And these are supposed to be experts in theology and religion… all the while their testimony is lacking faith in God. It’s more like proving God’s existance or no existance, along with every main prophetic person who scribed their words in a book, a scroll, carved in stone, or whose words were passed down orally. And people believe the so called experts and pay to hear their lectures and buy their books. This is sad and the same stone of stumbling that has befallen man since the days of Adam.
That being said, I would choose to read the book of Thomas…if you chose that too, here is a link to read it. Smile. Gospel of Thomas (marquette.edu)
And here is another link showing questions and debates used by the scholarly religious men who in their pride deem to know the minds and opinions of those who wrote their testimonies in their own words such as Thomas. Whether the council of Nicaea, or World Council of Churches, these appear to form their opinions from either conversations among themselves, or by the input of the experts in the days of the council of Nicaea. Whereby at that council so great and nobel, not a one of the inspired so called Holy Religious Leaders, NONE OF THEM, fought to stop the merging of Holy Scriptures with the gods and goddesses of Rome. Let that sink in!! The Gospel of Thomas: Manuscripts, Texts, and Early Citations – Owlcation
KEEP ON PRESSING INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD! PRESS, PRESS, PRESS!
DIANNE
