Clayton Lisy
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And I mean, Thomas had a private conversation with Jesus and.
We'll never know what happened in the private conversation, but he started Gnosticism right after.
And it's like and he said to the other apostles, if I told you what he told me, you would all kill me where I stand.
So basically saying like whatever you like think he fucking took like.
Is and the way I thought about that is not that he was it's been translated that people think, oh, he was being critical the way Thomas was and called him out on a bunch of bullshit.
No, the way I view that is, is what would make somebody kill you where you stand more likely to challenge them on all their beliefs?
So Jesus chose Thomas to say, hey, I'm going to give you the real lowdown of what what's going on here.
You seem like you can handle it.
Carry on this message.
So that's kind of and that's where that stems from.
And like I said, all these other religions, you know, have a lot of flaws.
Oh, yeah.
But if you look just purely at Gnosticism, you'll never hear about bullshit with that.
It's it's interesting, but I don't think it's like.
It's also like.
It doesn't require a church.
It doesn't require a lot of, you know what I'm saying?
It says you can pray wherever you are.
God is inside of you.
You can pray.