THE WORK CREW

society, culture, religion, spirituality, science · EN

The Work Crew Socials: https://beacons.ai/theworkcrew What happens when you open the Gospel of Thomas with someone who's never read it before? In this episode of The Work Crew, TJ reads the Gospel of Thomas for the first time—and we barely make it through the first 18 of its 114 sayings before finding ourselves deep in questions about Jesus, consciousness, self-knowledge, the Kingdom of God, Gnosticism, spiritual awakening, death, and what these ancient sayings might actually mean. Unlike the narrative structure of the canonical Gospels, the Gospel of Thomas is presented primarily as a collection of sayings attributed to Jesus. And that's where things get interesting. We begin by looking at the text itself, its surviving Coptic manuscript, earlier Greek fragments, its association with the Nag Hammadi discovery, and the question of how Thomas relates to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Then we start reading. And almost immediately, the conversation gets weird. "Whoever fi