As the Pope, surely you know that the best record we have of what Jesus said is contained in the gnostic Gospel of Thomas. It was written around 45 C.E., which means it predates all four of the canonical gospels – the earliest of which was written forty years after the crucifixion.
The reason most people don’t know about the Gospel of Thomas is that it was declared “heretical” by one of your predecessors and then ordered destroyed. Luckily, however, Egyptian monks defied the order and buried a cache of the gospels at Nag Hammadi. More than 50 texts were discovered there in 1945 and are now available to everyone. These gospels give a much fuller account of what Jesus taught, which I will happily and humbly summarize for you, my dear Pope:
Jesus came to Earth to teach his followers a path to enlightenment (a/k/a heaven), just as the Buddha did 500 years earlier for his followers.
PS: You may find the gnostic Gospel of Philip and the Gospel of Mary quite edifying. Both gosples strongly suggest that Mary Magdalene was Jesus’ closest spiritual partner.
PPS: Pope, why are you so frightened by feminine energy?
Jesus Taught Enlightenment
- Submitted by Laura on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 17:22.