knight4yshua,

As it happens, I placed my mail order for a copy of Thomas just the other day. I assume your careful selection gives me a preview of what I might find most extreme and difficult to understand in it.

I heard a lecture by Dr. Pagels where she offered her very convincing argument for how and why Thomas was set aside in favor of John for some arbitrary reasons, including imposing a limit on the gospels to four.

Surely you can find a host of contradictions in the canon’s texts? Or does divine inspiration for the Bishop of Alexandria’s selectivity of the first canon cover all sins? As Constantine’s might has made right the decisions at Nicea?

I’ll stand with Thomas the doubter (even though that attribution is now recognized as John’s maligning a competitor).