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@kellyjay said
Hebrews 4:15, ESV: "For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin."

English Standard Version
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

He went through life without sin, then became sin so we could be free of it.

Is that why the Gospel of Thomas was excluded from the Bible?

Jesus did quite a bit of sinning as a kid.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Is that why the Gospel of Thomas was excluded from the Bible?

Jesus did quite a bit of sinning as a kid.

Which would mean it doesn't line up with the rest of the text within scripture. If everything that was written was accepted and none of it matched or lined up with the rest, it would indeed be nothing but man's work, and nothing else was involved.

@kellyjay said
Which would mean it doesn't line up with the rest of the text within scripture. If everything that was written was accepted and none of it matched or lined up with the rest, it would indeed be nothing but man's work, and nothing else was involved.

Humans decided which books to include and which books to leave out.

Humans.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Humans decided which books to include and which books to leave out.

Humans.

Humans inspired, guided by and controlled by God’s Holy Spirit.

@pb1022 said
Humans inspired, guided by and controlled by God’s Holy Spirit.

Yes, humans always claim that to justify their decisions.

Can you provide evidence that was the case?

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Humans decided which books to include and which books to leave out.

Humans.

They confirmed what was already accepted as scripture, that could be confirmed, whose sources were accepted. Of course, humans decided, what would have made more sense if zebras did it?

@kellyjay said
They confirmed what was already accepted as scripture, that could be confirmed, whose sources were accepted. Of course, humans decided, what would have made more sense if zebras did it?

Have you ever read the Gospel of Thomas?

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Have you ever read the Gospel of Thomas?

No

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Have you ever read the Gospel of Thomas?

Have you ever watched this?

YouTube

@kellyjay said
No

Pope Benedict XVI spoke from the Gospel of Thomas in his 2012 Easter vigil Mass.

In his book, The Gospel of Thomas: A Catholic Perspective, M. C. Ingraham gives evidence of all the sayings of Jesus, contained within the Gospel of Thomas to be explainable within Catholic theology. The Gospel of Thomas is a collection of 114 sayings of Jesus recorded by the apostle Thomas. It is the fifth gospel of Jesus. Half of the sayings of the Gospel are identical or similar in words and meaning to the canonical gospels.

@kellyjay said
Have you ever watched this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRcYEzc7r7w

No.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
No.

You should if you are interested in the topic, and I'll look up the book and read it if you do.

@kellyjay said
You should if you are interested in the topic, and I'll look up the book and read it if you do.

Do what you like Kelly. I gave you a sample.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Yes, humans always claim that to justify their decisions.

Can you provide evidence that was the case?

I’ll answer by asking you a question:

If the Holy Bible was not written by men under the influence, guidance and control of God’s Holy Spirit, how do you explain the accuracy of prophecies and scientific facts in the Bible that were centuries and thousands of years ahead of man realizing them?