Wednesday, March 6, 2013

#JesusSaid

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My website is www.Timothean.com The Nag Hammadi library has a lot of lost text of the sayings of Jesus such as the Gospel of Mary and the Gospel of Thomas. After Jesus was killed , the 12 apostles discussed whether they should preach the kingdom of God and denounce the Roman Empire, when their teacher was killed by the Romans. They said, "if the Romans killed Jesus, they would kill us also". But the 12 apostles went and preached anyway. But when Jesus was resurrected and spoke to the 12 apostles again, they asked him, "where should we go for wisdom when you're gone?" Jesus said, "go to James the just, for whose purpose the whole world came into existence", Nag Hammadi, logion 12. This is very profound statement. Jesus was saying the whole world was created and came into existence for one man. The world wasn't even created for the 12 apostles. If the 12 apostles died preaching the gospel, it's no big deal, nothing was lost, the world wasn't created for them anyway. Not to take that statement out of context, If we go back to where Abraham says to Jesus, if there are 10 righteous in the city, will you destroy it? Jesus was pretty much saying, that because of this one righteous person, the world is not destroyed. In a passage in Eusebius, Clement of Alexandria (150-215 CE) says the "Gift of Knowledge" was given by Jesus to "James the Just, to John, and Peter," and they gave it to the rest of the Apostles, and they taught to the Seventy, of who Barnabas was one," (EH 2.1). The ...

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