Every week, the minister Michel Genton, comments for you, a saying new.
Logia is a term applied to collections of sayings credited to Jesus. The Greek word "logia" means "oracles, divine responses, utterances, or sayings.
Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Saying1
" And he said: He who shall find the interpretation of these words shall not taste of death."
Comments:
He said it means well that Thomas didn't transcribe all that Jesus Christ said. As Jean also asserts it moreover: Gospel of Jean chapter 21 and verse 25:
“ And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. "
Luc will also say in the Acts of the apostles chapter 1 and verse 1: " The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,… " Jesus was never very clear in his education because He didn't want to be included by all. He said for example:
"I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes". This Gospel of Thomas isn't dictated to Thomas by Jesus alone together as would like we it to persuade certain gnostics. Thomas isn't a privileged person. He is one of disciples and he understands what it is predestined to understand.
As you, he listens to and he doesn't understand everything, he doesn't hear everything.
Jesus speaks about the need to interpret what He says to be able to escape the death. The word "interpretation" disturbs many Christians. And nevertheless, there is nothing of wizard to interpret the words of Jesus. The interpretation is the science and the art the purpose of which is to give the meaning of Texts. Jesus interpreted Writings Luc 24/27. And Jesus said:
" The works which I made, you will also make them … "
We thus have the right and the duty to interpret texts by means of the Holy Spirit. As Jesus was, on earth, at the same moment divine and human, His Word is also at the same moment divine and human. It is necessary to us to have appeal to the Spirit and to the intellect. To escape the death, it is necessary to us to understand what Jesus said. In the Words of Jesus is the Life. The thought of eternity being memorized by people, it is good to know where is the key to enter in the eternity.
It can seem very mysterious at the beginning, but the one who looks has the pleasure and the satisfaction to find. Anyway, those whom God predestined for the Life will find itr. That is they will become conscious here low, on earth there, before living her except the limitations of this created system. But, it passes necessarily by the Words of Jesus. It did not come for the other matter than.