How come if they just found the Gospel of Thomas, they didn't put it in the Bible?

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Tommy B. Vareedowful
 
 

They didn't just find the Gospel of Thomas. It was written a couple of centuries after Jesus.  The early church knew about it and decided it wasn't that good. 

There were lots of different sources of revelation in the early church.  There were oral collections of the sayings of Jesus.  There were wandering prophets.  There were written visions and a whole lot more. 

There is an interesting book called the Teaching of the Twelve Apostles that was written about 90 -110 AD.  It has handy tips on what to do when a wandering prophet comes to town.  It advises that if he says, “Thus says the Lord: Give me a meal and money,” toss him out.  He’s a false prophet! 

As early as a century after the beginning of the church there were people who saw a handsome living in the business of religion.  The Bishops, whose title means supervisor, got together over a period of time and decided to write a canon (a word which means measuring rod) to help people better discern what the Lord was saying, and to help figure out if this revelation or that prophet was authentic.  They compiled an approved reading list to help the believer.  It was called the canon of scriptures.  We call it the Bible.

St. Paul says if someone comes to you preaching another Gospel, do not hear him.  So, it seems in the early Church there were lots of Gospels.  Only four were thought to be completely from the Holy Spirit, and the Gospel of Thomas wasn't one of them.

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Rev. Know-It-All