“But did you know that only the Gospel of John tells the story of Doubting Thomas? Only John portrays Thomas as this dull-witted and faithless disciple. The other Gospels revere Thomas.
Besides the mystery of the relics of the Biblical Magi, I've always been interested in the earliest foundations of the Catholic Church, especially in regard to the gnostic texts that predate the fourfold Gospel canon that would become the established Bible. I was especially intrigued by the gnostic Gospel of Thomas, which leaned away from organized religion and into more of a personal quest for faith, summed up as "seek and you shall find." Some scholars believe that the story of "Doubting Thomas" (as told only in John's account) was an attept to discredit the philosophy of Thomas in order to cement a more Church-centric orthodoxy. Is that a valid assessment? I don't know, but I'll keep searching.
