The night before Jesus his execution

These coming days we make time to think about what Jesus has done.

Lots of Christians do forget that God can not die, but that Jesus really has put his own will aside to do the will of God (when Jesus would be God he naturally would always have done his own will). Jesus really found his death at the stake and after his resurrection could show the wounds of his torture at the stake, proving he is no spirit, like his Father is Spirit.

In the Scriptures we also can find how Paul describes the true Christ or Anointed of God and not God the Anointed, something totally different. As a devout Jew Paul was convinced that in Jesus could all people receive salvation or redemption through Jesus and not through God His blood, because Paul knew that God has no bones, flesh or blood Him being a Spirit. John and the other apostles believed the same as any other Jew would believe. (Luke 24:39; 1 Corinthians 15:50; John 4:24)

Paul does not say Jesus is God but defines Jesus to be in the image of the invisible Elohim, the firstborn of every creature. You seem to forget we all are made in the image of God. God is invisible but Jesus not and was seen by many who did not fall death when they saw him. No man can see God and live (Exodus 33:23; John 1:18; 1 Tim 1:17).
Paul like the apostle John also considers Jesus as the instigator of the New World, a new creation of which all followers of Jeshua shall become inheritance.

Paul writes that it was for it pleased the Father (i.e. Jehovah God) that in Jesus should all fulness dwell because we may count on it that peace is made through the blood of his death at the stake (please also do not forget that God can not die). This giving of his own body and soul as a ransom was to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, Paul says, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

In the Olive Garden the night before his execution when Jesus prayed the scripture uses phrases like,

“My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death”…
”he went forward an little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: never the less not what I will, but what thou wilt”.

Jesus expresses that he wants God Will to be done and not his will. In case Jesus is God, naturally than it would always be his own will which would happen.

In this Olive Garden we find the son of man praying to his heavenly Father, and not praying to himself, which he would have done when Jesus is God.  See Jesus did exactly what we are expected to do.  Pray for our need, but submit to the will of the Father.  Know that what he is asking us to do is needful and necessary.

  If Jesus would not have suffered for us, then his sacrificial offering would not benefit us. When Jesus is God and if he as God having come to this world would have faked his temptation, his praying to the Most High and faking his death (because God cannot be tempted nor die) then we would not know the Father.
  If you do not have times of suffering, someone else who may have come to know Jesus by the example of your faith, might also die  but not in their sins when he or she accepted Jesus Christ.  We have to trust in his will and continue spreading the message of Christ, calling people to come to God having Jesus as the way to God, that is faith.  Standing in that hope and knowledge of the love of God towards you is exercising that faith.

  So then the disciples awoke Jesus in some vague hope that he just might be close enough to God to do something. But fear did overcome them and it took until the day that the Holy Spirit came over them before they dared to come out in public again to tell others they were followers of Jesus Christ.

Are you a real follower of Jesus Christ?
Do you dare to tell others that you believe that Jesus is the son of God and not god the son?
do you dare to tell others that you worship the same God that was worshipped by Jesus Christ and his disciples, namely the Only One true God Who is One, the Elohim Hashem Jehovah?

Or is their fear in  you, not willing to admit yet that you believe Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah, sent by God?

Or you still in a stadium of being 'in the night before Jesus his execution'?

Looking at what the Gospel of Thomas Teaches

Biblical Christian Gnostic Teachings looks at "The Theology of the Gospel of Thomas".

The non-canonical sayings gospel or writing of logia by the apostle Thomas, commonly known as "Doubting Thomas" , brings not a narrative account of the life of Jesus, but some 114 of the sayings attributed to his master teacher Jesus Christ. Almost half of these sayings resemble those found in the Canonical Gospels, while it is speculated that the other sayings were added from Gnostic tradition.

Originated in Hellenistic Judaism we may find in this second of seven contained in what modern-day scholars have designated as Codex II from a school of early Christians, possibly proto-Gnostics.

In this book is said that Jesus is alive and is called the living one meaning the risen lord. It tells us we can live by Jesus' sayings and should take into account about things which Jesus speaks.

The listener should seek the truth, which can be found in the Holy Scriptures whereto Thomas gives some overview of things Jesus said we should remember. With his writings Thomas wants us to join him on a journey 

that will make us kings and at the end it will lead to rest (Greek Saying 2)

 Naturally being it a gnostic writing we have to look at it as not a divine inspired book, but as just one of the several civic writings about the Nazarene master teacher Jeshua (Jesus Christ). Though it request us to be exclusively committed to the truth like the fisherman who came to follow that son of man who said to them he was the sent one from God.

Also in this book we are assured that the kingdom we are looking for should be found on earth and not in heaven (saying 3 82 113) It is within us and it is to be spread out upon the earth. it is not in the world of the dead (saying 59).

The work tells us there is a spiritual kingdom on earth right now. It is within us if Jesus is in us and all around us (saying 3 24 22 51 77 82 113).

In this work we also come to know that if we follow Jesus we can become 

a man of light lighting up the whole world (Saying 24) like a city built on a high mountain (Saying 33)

and that Jesus tells us to tell others (33 50).

By presenting this writing the apostle Thomas points to the fact that we should look at Jesus as the Kingdom near us, him being the origin of the new creation (77 82 3 49 14 50 7) and that we should pass by the thinking of the flesh and be passers by of all other teachers and teachings (Saying 42)

> find to read

1. Casting the Fire of Kingdom upon the World The Gospel of Thomas
2. Non-Docetic Gnosticism in the Nag Hammadi Library
3. My siblings and My mother The Gospel of Thomas Saying 99

some of the sayings: 

1. Prophecy in the Gospel of Thomas
2. seeks rule and rest Gospel of Thomas Saying 2
3. Gnosis is to Know Thyself Gospel of Thomas Saying 3
4. Gnosis And Intuition Gospel of Thomas Saying 3
5. it is not “pie in the sky when you die, bye & bye.” Gospel of Thomas Saying 3
6. Gospel of Thomas Saying 4
7. James the Just Gospel of Thomas Saying 12
8. The Light Within The Gospel of Thomas Saying 24
9. Taking Off A Garment Gospel of Thomas saying 37
10. meditating about death gospel of thomas saying 63
11. The Gospel of Thomas Saying 77
12. Should we worship mary Gospel of Thomas saying 79
13. The “twin” of Christ Gospel of Thomas Saying 108

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1. The nature of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas
2. Miracles in the Gospel of Thomas
3. Forgiveness in the Gospel of Thomas
4. Love in the Gospel of Thomas
5. The Doctrine of Sin in the Gospel of Thomas
6. The Theology of the Gospel of Thomas
7. Does the gospel of Thomas teach the Trinity?
8. What the Gospel of Thomas Does Not Teach