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Oh the problems that the LXX has caused. The Hebrew has six attributes describing one God. The LXX has seven attributes describing one God. More interesting to me is that 'spirit' is only used 4 times, three describing one. A few years ago I mapped the heavens one of the gnostic writings to the seve...

7. Jesus said, "Lucky is the lion that the human will eat, so that the lion becomes human. And foul is the human that the lion will eat, and the lion still will become human. All riddle: Jesus is the Lion of Judah Lion is a pun to light. It represents the Holiness of God as the judge. Eat has ...

GOT was discovered recently and it has nothing to teach to anyone after some 2000 years of Christian history . GOT is for academics interested in the detailed history of the past. In about the fifth century the allegorical approach investigated the OT for the following four aspects :the literal mea...

Because at one point in Buddhist doctrine only monks could get to Nibbana and nuns had to be reborn as men before reaching full enlightenment....just like GOT claims Jesus said Mary Magdalrne must become male to be saved. Its interesting to compare. GOT named after the apostle who tradition says we...

The NT was written in Greek, no need to chage. Origen is credited with the introduction of the allegorical interpretation of the OT . The allegorical approach serves to find a deeper spiritual sense in addition to the plain literal sense and this deeper method required spiritual insight . This alle...

And remember, it is not the Gospel of Thomas that teaches doctrine... doctrine comes from scripture. It teaches how to read the mystery of Christ hidden in riddle.

Google sensus plenior and NT authors use of OT scripture and you will find confession after confession that modern theologians cannot reproduce the exegesis of the NT authors. Some even suggest that Jesus and the apostles would fail their Hermeneutics 101 classes for misappropriating scripture. Mayb...

OT pun:
Light אור ‘owr : Skin עור ‘owr
Light is a symbol for the holiness of God. God gave Adam garments of something like his holiness.

NT pun:
Yeshua God's salvation. Ya shuach God humbled (incarnation). The pun fulfills the prophecy Emmanuel -God with us

Ezekiel is saying that the Messiah would speak in double entendre. He does not give clues as to how to make sense of them. They would remain unsolvable until the time of the cross. GOT 20 is a saying that has examples of several types of riddles used by Jesus and the apostles. He retains the pun for...

The simple answer is that each saying of Thomas is an example of a type of riddle used by NT authors as they exegete the OT. I have applied those types of riddles to the parable of the mustard seed in the example given.