>>18986234Quote the exact saying number. I've checked the actual Gospel of Thomas, all 114 sayings, and there is absolutely no command from Christ to rape children. You're making an extraordinary accusation against a religious text without providing a single piece of evidence. An apocryphal gospel existing does not mean every claim attributed to it is authentic. So produce the passage, or admit you made it up.
Simon Gathercole, in The Gospel of Thomas: Introduction and Commentary (Brill, 2014), discusses the child imagery in Sayings 4, 22 and 37. He identifies interpretations involving innocence, sexual innocence and primordial humanity. He does not identify any instruction to rape children.
Stephen J. Patterson, in the Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Apocrypha (2016), discusses the Gospel of Thomas and its relevance to historical Jesus scholarship, including the unresolved questions surrounding its date, theology and sources.
Judith Hartenstein, in the same Oxford Handbook, examines sexuality and asceticism in apocryphal gospels. Her discussion concerns sexual renunciation, gender and spiritual transformation.
So where exactly is the command to rape children? Give me a saying number, an actual quotation and a scholarly reference. You cannot just invoke unnamed experts and expect that to count as evidence
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