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Right you are! Only drop the Saint. The Gnostics believed in self-actualization not in divine intervention.
Yes but he’s typically referring to as St. Thomas or Doubting Thomas.
By Catholics. The reformers don't believe in Sainthood.
What does that have to do with anything? It’s meant as a clarification. Catholics don’t believe that the book was actually written by him either.
Because it's not called "The Gospel of Saint Thomas," it's "The Gospel of Thomas."
He’s one and the same. Again, it’s for clarification. The book is supposedly written by the Thomas that was an apostle of Jesus.
From the wiki article: "Most modern scholars do not consider the Apostle Thomas the author of this document and the author remains unknown."
Unfortunately it doesn't look like that is very well accepted
This is surely meant in the same way that scholars don’t actually consider any of the gospels, including Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John, to be written by the actual apostles they’re named after. All of them, including the Gospel of Thomas (don’t want to confuse the pedants around here!), are meant to be written as if coming directly from the apostles, hence why they’re named the way they are. Modern scholarship acknowledges that none of them can possibly be written by any of Jesus’ contemporaries but that doesn’t mean that most modern Christians know or care about that. They’re the Gospels of each of the people supposedly credited to them.