It's not about "buying" it - it's essentially proven at that point.
		Tom Send a noteboard - 21/09/2012 03:26:50 AM
		
	
		
			
				As I said, I am going to rely on the editorial staff of the official printing of the Nag Hammadi Corpus by Brill, rather than your assertions as to what one or two academics say based on a cursory reading of wikipedia.  There will always be an academic willing to take any position, particularly if he can publish something based on it, so citing one academic is not really that persuasive.
Consensus puts Thomas in the early Second Century, and virtually no serious scholars put it after 150 AD.
			
		
	
	Consensus puts Thomas in the early Second Century, and virtually no serious scholars put it after 150 AD.
		Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
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ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
			So, about this silly "Jesus' wife" story making the rounds...
	    
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			That's right! Jesus' position on marriage was "One man, no woman." *NM*
	    
	         - 19/09/2012 11:05:55 PM
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			What is the context?  The canonical bible says Christ has a wife:  The Church.
	    
	         - 19/09/2012 11:25:19 PM
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			Oh please...don't confuse "wife" with "bride"
	    
	         - 19/09/2012 11:35:09 PM
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			What word do the Prophets use for Israels relationship to God?
	    
	         - 20/09/2012 12:38:20 AM
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			BRIDE
	    
	         - 20/09/2012 03:39:30 PM
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			I love your last two sentences. They're a really nice description.  *NM*
	    
	         - 20/09/2012 07:58:19 PM
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			That makes sense for an eternal God, but sounds like a wife who remains a bride.
	    
	         - 20/09/2012 08:56:07 PM
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			It's "bride" in the Old Testament as well.
	    
	         - 20/09/2012 09:48:37 PM
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			The distinction is important for preserving the newlywed condition, but not for this fragment.
	    
	         - 20/09/2012 11:21:52 PM
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			Two things why it is important
	    
	         - 20/09/2012 04:24:37 AM
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			Did someone hit you over the head?  "Two things why it is important"?  Really?
	    
	         - 20/09/2012 03:50:02 PM
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			Something I forgot to ask you about last night: What is your take on Daniels messianic prophecy?
	    
	         - 20/09/2012 09:21:32 PM
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			I don't get that at all.  "And will be no more", or "And will have nothing" is better.
	    
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			It is the King James text, which I have never heard anyone call heretical.
	    
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			The King James Bible is aesthetically pleasing but a bad translation.
	    
	         - 21/09/2012 12:03:00 AM
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			I like the NKJV because it tries to include all ambiguities.
	    
	         - 21/09/2012 12:47:38 AM
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			There is a very good reason no one dismissed the illegitmate gospels as illegitimate until 180 AD:
	    
	         - 20/09/2012 09:15:05 PM
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			The Gospel of Thomas was written before 180 AD.
	    
	         - 20/09/2012 09:33:44 PM
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			What is the oldest extant text of or reference to it?
	    
	         - 20/09/2012 11:11:03 PM
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			The Oxyrhynchus fragments were dated to c. 200 AD, and they are copies
	    
	         - 21/09/2012 12:18:33 AM
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			I would buy 200 AD, of course.
	    
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			It's not about "buying" it - it's essentially proven at that point.
		
	         - 21/09/2012 03:26:50 AM
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			Yes; all I meant was that I never disputed a date around 200 AD.
	    
	         - 22/09/2012 12:25:41 AM
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			I don't think any of the gospels were written by their purported authors.
	    
	         - 22/09/2012 03:36:32 AM
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			Not even Mark or Luke?
	    
	         - 22/09/2012 01:21:24 PM
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			Well, but everyone knew Peter didn't speak Greek
	    
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			True, but everyone also knew Paul spoke it fluently, and he would have been an ideal choice.
	    
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			Some people did "lie big".
	    
	         - 24/09/2012 02:11:58 PM
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			I forgot about (or possibly repressed memories of) the Gnostics "Gospel" of Peter.
	    
	         - 24/09/2012 11:26:43 PM
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			I'm not trying to defend Gnosticism doctrinally, but...
	    
	         - 24/09/2012 11:51:40 PM
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			I am not relying SOLELY (or chiefly) on popularity though.
	    
	         - 25/09/2012 02:21:01 AM
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			The Gnostic response would be:
	    
	         - 25/09/2012 06:01:58 AM
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			That just sounds like more conspiracy allegations based on desire rather than evidence.
	    
	         - 25/09/2012 07:15:06 AM
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			The issue of evidence for Gnosticism would make this thread unnecessarily long.
	    
	         - 25/09/2012 07:28:22 PM
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			What about those who postulate a mid-to-late 1st century composition?
	    
	         - 22/09/2012 02:21:18 AM
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			Elaine Pagels ceased to be an impartial academic a long time ago.
	    
	         - 22/09/2012 03:41:41 AM
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			Suspected as much, but wanted to see if you thought so as well
	    
	         - 22/09/2012 03:47:05 AM
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			Let's not get started on Funk
	    
	         - 22/09/2012 09:48:05 PM
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			don't these people have anything better to do?
	    
	         - 20/09/2012 11:39:35 PM
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			Clearly not.
	    
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