Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper examines the Gospel of Thomas (GoT), a non-canonical Christian text from the second century CE, while challenging its previous associations with Gnosticism. This paper argues that the Thomasine soteriology (i.e., understanding of salvation) involves a return to a pre-Adamic human nature in the image of God, a position that requires unique reinterpretations of Christian doctrine. First, the paper shows how this gospel presents Jesus as a guide rather than a traditional savior, urging practitioners to embody his teachings to recognize their inherent divinity. It then describes the centrality of Christian asceticism and its role in purifying practitioners for their spiritual journey. The article also explores the importance of Jewish exegetical traditions for the GoT’s soteriology, while also acknowledging its critiques of Jewish laws. The primary goal of this study is to highlight the distinctive soteriology of return of the GoT. Its unique use of various influences to advocate for the realization of inner divinity may provide insight on the diverse nature of Early Christianity.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".