"I have come from the force of the man for the destruction of your work."
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2021 1:02 pm
In a Gnostic text from Nagh Hammadi, the answer of Jesus to archontes questioning his identity doesn't leave a minimal shadow of doubt:
Hardly the same certainty is derived from Jesus's answer to Pilate:
If the consensus is right about the Gnostic text (above) being based on a gospel and not the contrary (the gospel being based on such Gnostic text), then it is based on a proto-gospel where the Jesus's answer had shown an identical certainty just as the Jesus of the Gnostic text.
"I have come from the force of the man for the destruction of your work."
Hardly the same certainty is derived from Jesus's answer to Pilate:
“Are you the king of the Jews?” asked Pilate.
“You have said so,” Jesus replied
“You have said so,” Jesus replied
If the consensus is right about the Gnostic text (above) being based on a gospel and not the contrary (the gospel being based on such Gnostic text), then it is based on a proto-gospel where the Jesus's answer had shown an identical certainty just as the Jesus of the Gnostic text.
“Are you the king of the Jews?” asked Pilate.
“I have said so,” Jesus replied.
“I have said so,” Jesus replied.