Truth About The Crucifixion — Page 131
writings, 52 in number (consisting of 1,191 surviving pages) deal with the beliefs of early Christians. They are all written in the Coptic language. It is the literature of Gnostics the. Hebrew Christians-the more pious part of the Christian. Community. When the Roman Church set about destroying this literature, early Christians collected it and buried it underground in a graveyard. This literature contains the Gospel of St. Thomas. This Gospel contains the earliest version of 114 sayings of Jesus Christ, many of which the present day reader does not find in the synoptic Gospels. The most interesting point is that this literature contains dialogues which Jesus Christ held after the event of the cross. This treasure includes besides the Gospel of St. Thomas, the Gospel of Philip, the Gospel of Truth and the Epistle of James. . This discovery points to the changes which took place in early Christian beliefs. It also points to what happened to. Jesus after the crucifixion. It also contains the parables and teachings of Jesus. These Gospels make clear that the death of Jesus on the cross is a myth. Jesus lived in Palestine for 550 days after the crucifixion, and he lived in the company of some of his followers and kept himself busy in teaching and training them. This proves that Jesus was alive after the incident of the crucifixion. . I give some excerpts from Nag Hammadi Gospels. The Gospel of Philip says:. Those who say that the Lord died first and then rose up are in error, for he rose up first and then died. . Quoting a passage from the unpublished document Bertil. Gartner writes:. In one of the many documents from the Nag-Hammadi. Library, the as yet unpublished Apocryphon of James, we read that the risen Lord walked with his disciples for 550 days after his resurrection, and that it is Peter and James who are there entrusted with the secret knowledge. *. The same author quotes another passage from the Apocryphon of James. . Jesus said: Leave James and Peter to me, that I may fill them with fullness. And when we had called them both, he drew them aside at the same time commanding the others * R. M. Wilson, The Gospel of Philip (1962) p. 85. . Bertil Gartner, The Theology of the Gospel of Thames; pp. 102-103. 135