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All the teachings and spiritual exercises make sense with my understanding. If you apply the same assuming that the Name stands for Toaster, it doesn't make any sense. You may succeed to understand the Word of the prophets and spiritual exercise without using the Name, but you will surely fail...

Have you read my posts? I have not pushed the authorship to a late date, rather I disputed the late dating in post #91. The biggest sceptics accept a Q source and even a fictional source for John and say that all accounts must have been written late with the argument that they mention the doom...

That's what has been published by scholars around 1980. Many newer scholars have completely different opinions. I personally doubt this estimation.

It is quite evident from the structure of Mt that the author used multiple sources, similar to Luke, who also used Mark's account and other sources. A direct disciple would not have done that. That's not the case with the Gospel according to John. It doesn't recur to commonly known sayings and...

Suppose you answer is about me saying you refuse Mark and Luke. I know that you didnt't want ot say that. But they don't fulfil your criteria. You take the definition of your church. I don't. More interesting: Could you gie an example? There were more than one "Gospel of the Hebrews". One was...

So, you discard Mk and Lk and assume that It was written by Matthew? All scholars agree in that Jesus didn't write anything. I see, you have made your opinion and don't come back to it. No trace of that. There are no parallels to Th in the Diatessaron (I only know the Latin version so far)...

Hello and welcome. I am happy to see a Muslim joining this site. As to your question: no, you should not recur to palmistry. According to sunnah, it is forbidden. It is better to be there where you are at any time and try to be righteous before God. He will guide you. Besides, I don't believe...

Maybe we also differ in our attitude towards the canonical Gospel accounts. I see in tehm an originally oral tradition as well, assuming that they are reliable enough to draw fromtheme what Jesus tought, but not reliable in every detail. Maybe, you follw the attitude that because it is in the...

You are missing my point. My argument is that I take it as a valid 5th source. If Thomas had written it, it would rather be the 1st source. But that's evidently not the case. The plus I reckon for the author is because he didn't intend to attribute a false authority. If is was completely...

That's similar with the traditions Luke and the author of Matthews didn't read from Mark. I didn't say that. What I said was that the author evidently did not know the written accounts. We must also consider that there was no copy machine and no internet; all writings had to be copied by hand...

I've written in my introductory chapter to my gospel edition: The “Gospel of Thomas” All but the four Gospel accounts have been graded “apocryphal”, meaning that their origin is not known. This would correspond to the weak grade. There among are not many scriptures that are considered to...

It's a long and good discussion I hadn't noticed so far. There are roughly 3 meanings of the verb "to believe" 1 believe something: accept an assumption to be objectively true, based on indications, although lacking an objective proof 2 believe someone: trust a person and assume that he or...

Maybe on a dump ;-) In fact, I consider it to be a valid 5th source, not completely reliable but a collection of an upright author. Nevertheless, it has been discarded by scholars of the majority church, so it may have not been considered a sacred text at all by the one who threw it away.

Small correction: the Oxyrhynchos papyri of Th were found first and are estimated to be earlier as well.

Thanks for the correction. As I said, my knowledge in Hebrew is very deficient. But what about Eloh? At least in Arabic, Allah is grammatically certainly masculine (I'm not an expert in Arabic either but at least I can communicate and read it, whereas in Hebrew, I rather have to analyse word by...

There's certainly a difference between monotheistic prophets and the wise teachers in Indian religions. There's no real equivalent to what we perceive as God. But is the teaching of the wise a self-enhancement without a relationship with other people, animals, plants ?

You made me doubt my very limited knowledge of the Hebrew but i looked it up and it confirmed that -im is always a masculine plural ending.

Did any prophet recommend to run a Marathon? Animating yourself to do something doesn't mean anything more than that. We may have several images to think of God, but God is certainly not an undefined function you can use. Any references to God, in my understanding and conviction, needs to...

Is there? The authors didn't even mention their own names. John (suppose that the Gospel has been written on his explicit authority) even avoided it actively.

It's hard to grade the authenticity of a hadith. You can formulate criteria for it, but if they are hard and formal, they may be misleading, and others are very subjective. In Islam hadith science, we have the isnad criterion: scholars who reported the hadith had to tell the entire chain A...