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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BrownFlush" data-source="post: 3713534" data-attributes="member: 65823">I have..They call it The Five Gospels. They speak of five Gospels because, falling in with the latest scholarly fad, they have put a work called "The Gospel of Thomas" alongside (actually, above) the four Gospels of the Bible. It would be better, though, to entitle it The Fifth Gospel, for a fifth Gospel is exactly what they are trying to create. They have found fault with the four biblical Gospels and have taken upon themselves, to construct a better one. This fifth, supplanting Gospel they like to refer to as "the historical Jesus."This sort of thing is nothing new. An element of religious intellectuals has been trying to do this on and off for two centuries now, with widely varying results.</blockquote>