Tag: Gnostic

• The Gospel Of Thomas…. Doubt-Free

  

  In 1945 one of the greatest historical finds ever emerged in Nag Hammadi, Egypt. Dozens of early Christian texts suddenly came to the awareness of the western world. Called the Nag Hammadi Library, it was a collection of a 52 mainly gnostic texts along with Plato’s Republic and The Corpus Hermeticum. One theory is that…

  Timos Trismegistus

  February 25, 2025

  Early Christian Beliefs, Early Christian Groups, Gnosticism, Messiahs, Scripture

  Apostle, Archaeology, bible, Christian, Christianity, faith, Gnostic, god, Gospel, Jesus, Thomas

• John the Baptizer, Messiah or Nah?

  In the New Testament, John the Baptist was portrayed as the only person holy enough to be able to baptize Jesus of Nazareth at the inauguration of his ministry. The story (present in all four gospels) has Jesus requesting the ceremony at one of John’s baptism services. John seems to be reticent about performing the…

  Timos Trismegistus

  November 14, 2024

  Early Christian Beliefs, Early Christian Groups, First Century Figures, Gnosticism, History, Messiahs, Prophecy, Scripture

  Baptism, Baptist, Baptizer, bible, Christian, Christianity, Ginza, Gnostic, John, Mandaean, Mandaic, Nasorean, New, Prophet, Rba, Religion, Sabian, Testament

• Gnosticism; Then and Now

  Most of us are aware of the story of Jesus around which the world’s largest religion is shaped. Over the almost two millennia since the death of Jesus of Nazareth, the Christian version of his story has coalesced into the form that most of us are familiar with today. As popular and nearly ubiquitous as…

  Timos Trismegistus

  August 5, 2023

  History, Misc., Scripture

  canonical, Century, Christian, Christianity, Extra, First, Gnosis, Gnostic, Historical, Jesus, Jewish, Judaism, Mary, Nag Hammadi, Nazarene