By Ron Miller
The Gospel of Thomas—a e-book of sayings and knowledge of Jesus compiled as early or ahead of the recent testomony gospels—can remodel your non secular lifestyles. there are various educational commentaries at the Gospel of Thomas, yet this booklet has a unique objective. it truly is intended to be a guidebook, that's, a translation of the sayings into day-by-day perform. The aim of such perform is to turn into Jesus’s dual. this doesn't, in fact, suggest changing into an olive-skinned, bearded Mediterranean peasant donning sandals. it's extra approximately manifesting in our lives an analogous Christ awareness printed within the individual we all know as Jesus of Nazareth. —from the advent within the many years in view that its discovery, the Gospel of Thomas has intrigued humans of all faiths world wide. laying off new mild at the origins of Christianity, the Gospel of Thomas increases questions on even if the hot Testament’s model of Jesus’s teachings is fullyyt exact and whole. within the Gospel of Thomas we see Jesus as a wisdom-loving sage, sharing aphorisms concerning the price of the current and every person’s position within the production of the dominion of God right here in the world. yet those inspiring sayings can depart you brooding about, "What next?" you can now the right way to commence using Jesus’s knowledge in your personal life—and, in flip, to the realm round you. This distinctive guidebook leads you thru Thomas, providing practices that assist you translate Jesus’s knowledge right into a extra gratifying, enriching way of life, together with: * changing into a religious grownup * checking out the outdated and the hot * Being a therapeutic Presence * bold to Be a urban on a Hill * God’s Reign demands prepared arms * Spirituality isn't Skygazing * and masses more...
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There is a knock at the door and when we open the door we find one or two smiling people who are eager to help us. They never ask about the way in which we experience the divine mystery. They have the answer, the right answer, our right answer. They know how we should find G o d better than we ourselves could possibly know. W h y is that? Because they have the infallible book—the Bible, the Book of Mormon, or whatever. O r they have the infallible leader or the infallible method of salvation—we just need to accept Jesus or Krishna.
N o matter how hard you try to block out your body with your black robes, you too are a sexual being with all the longings that make us human. And when we don't recognize the holiness of that sexual desire, we experience the 17 THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS 18 distortions presented in two of the other sisters in that cold and loveless convent. 1 have learned much in this regard from my study of Judaism and Islam. I delighted in learning about the Sabbath, how that culminating day of the week celebrates the anticipation of the end times, the fullness of life and love, the time when God is symbolically united again with the Shekhinah, the feminine presence of God residing in the world in its experience of exile.
Is it not from the G o d who made us as sexual beings? N o matter how hard you try to block out your body with your black robes, you too are a sexual being with all the longings that make us human. And when we don't recognize the holiness of that sexual desire, we experience the 17 THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS 18 distortions presented in two of the other sisters in that cold and loveless convent. 1 have learned much in this regard from my study of Judaism and Islam. I delighted in learning about the Sabbath, how that culminating day of the week celebrates the anticipation of the end times, the fullness of life and love, the time when God is symbolically united again with the Shekhinah, the feminine presence of God residing in the world in its experience of exile.