The Most Dangerous to Manuscript Ever Found That Would Destroy the Church in a Day.

 Most people think they know the story of Thomas. They call him the doubter, the disciple of little faith, the one who needed to touch Jesus' wounds to believe. But that story was fabricated. In this lecture, Professor Jiang Xueqin reconstructs the true story of Thomas, the disciple whom Jesus called his spiritual twin, the one who received the deepest teachings in private, and the one who was systematically erased from history because what he preserved would have made the entire institutional Church unnecessary. We examine the discovery of the Nag Hammadi texts in 1945, the dating and authenticity of the Gospel of Thomas, the fabrication of the character of Doubting Thomas in the Gospel of John, the political...