The former was so early false attribution might well have risked repudiation by the purported author. With the exception of John, what perplexes me about disputing the traditional view of the Gospels' authorship is that I cannot understand why anyone writing a pseudepigraph would not choose a more prominent "author" like James of Peter. The lead consultant on "Patton" was Omar Bradley, not Bill Mauldin or Kay Summersby. One would think anyone trying to legitimize their gospel would have chosen a better byline than Mark, who only gets a handful of mentions (not all favorable) in the entire NT.


What of "If you bring forth what is within you, what you have will save you"? That sounds more like Mormonisms "as God is, so man may become," than Christianitys doctrine that all men stand condemned by our sins and thus need redemption and justification in Christ. Sayings like "Split a piece of wood, and I am there. Lift a stone, and you will find me there" can be reconciled as panentheist rather than pantheist, but Thomas has some fairly strong gnostic language for a truly Christian work.