Jesus and the Kingdom of God
Date Submitted: 09/19/2004 22:57:18
Category: / Society & Culture / Religion
Length: 3 pages (874 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / Religion
Length: 3 pages (874 words)
The Gospel of Thomas is unlike any other scripture written about Jesus. It is a collection of Jesus' secret sayings that only someone who actually knew him, like his "twin", would be able to recount. Jesus, in the Gospel of Thomas, is a teacher that points his followers in the direction of the Kingdom of Heaven. He explains that the kingdom is a place with no poverty, where all is revealed and that it is …
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…them when they know themselves (GTh 37).
Because the Gospel of Thomas is just a collection of Jesus' sayings with no context many of these sayings are hard to comprehend but it gives us a valuable and different picture of Jesus. This Jesus shows us the hidden reality of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, the way to Heaven is through understanding, and once we reach Heaven all in the world will be revealed to us.
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