The gospel of Thomas is a collection of some of Jesus's teachings, mostly in regards to the kingdom of heaven. I particularly like the one that says that God already layed the Kingdom out across the earth, and among us, we are just too blind to see it. People tend to be blinded by society, by greed, by lust, by hate, and by fear, and we don't see what good and what greatness lies right in front of us. Instead we chase false hopes and ignorant desires, perpetuating our own suffering.
I also think it is interesting how, today, we have a sort of view as if the majority of people we know will all go to heaven, including ourselves. We don't think of it in the terms that Jesus put it when he stated that the wide gate is easy, and it is only the few that find and make it through the narrow, harder gate, implying that in reality very few of us will actually make it to heaven, because so many of us choose to avoid that path.
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I agree with you and think people today are blinded and we don't always see what lies right in front of us. There are a lot of people out there caught up in this material world, caught up with their own needs and wants. But I also see a lot of people in todays world searching, searching for something more, searching for answers, searching for something spiritual. Trying to do better.
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