• The Gospel of Thomas, begins, “These are the secret sayings which the living Jesus spoke and which Didymos Judas Thomas wrote down.” • The Gospel of Mary has Mary saying to the apostles, “Whatever is hidden from you and I remember, I will proclaim to you.” • The Apocryphon of James even depicts the apostles of Jesus writing their books, before it goes on to record a new revelation of Jesus to the apostles after the resurrection. Here is the point: to trade on secret words of Jesus concedes that
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