I don't think Gary Renard has stolen the Gospel of Thomas
Bruce MacDonald says Gary Renard, the writer of the best-selling book "The Disappearance Of The Universe" plagiarized the Gospel of Thomas because Parsah's Gospel in Renard's second book was word for word with Stephen Patterson and Marvin Meyer’s English translation from Nag Hammadi Library.
I don't think so, for the same reason as MacDonald's that it is verbatim.
Let me list up my points.
1. Stephen Patterson and Marvin Meyer's English translation is a most famous Gospel of Thomas.
Check out Amazon's page for instance. When you try to plagiarize something, will you steal No.1 famous material word for word with the same title? And it is a matter of Gospels. When you cite Bible in conversations (Renard's book is a style of conversations' record), you wouldn't mention which version is, especially in case of being from the most famous translation. Gospels are among public domain which Robert Perry loves.
2. Gary Renards' book recommends us to compare itself with the current Gospel of Thomas.
His book says it used the same numbers for Jesus' sayings that you may compare with the Coptic version to show you which part is omited and changed in Parsah's version. When you have stolen the content, will you recommend the readers to compare yours with the original material?
3. Bruce MacDonald claims he is the true reincarnation of St. Thomas.
Gary's book touches the same topic of the saint's reincarnation. So, Bruce should be one of the parties interested. After the explosive sales of Gary's book which was once listed next to Harry Potter, what do you think the less-well-known public claimer of St. Thomas' reincarnation felt against the million hit? I bet he must have felt slapped in the face by the millions of Gary's readers in his imagination.
4. Bruce claims Gary Renard is the reincarnation of Simon Magus, and Magus faked A Course in Miracles.
It is strange that Robert Perry, the founder of "Circle of Atonement", hired the claims of Bruce who insists A Course in Miracles is a completely fake. (Circle of Atomenet is one of the organizations based on A Course in Miracles. COA once sued FIP which has the copyright of A Course in Miracles with the claim that ACIM be among public domain.) More absurd for me is that Bruce seriously insists Simon Magus(Gary, he means) dictated A Course in Miracles to Helen Schucman. Gary Renard, supposedly born in 50's, was a little boy in Massachusetts when Helen started scribing A Course in Miracles at N.Y. in 1965. Anyone, please explain me how a boy at Salem sent 1100 pages of inspirations to an assistant professor in Colombia University.
So my conclusion is smile and forgiveness.
I don't think so, for the same reason as MacDonald's that it is verbatim.
Let me list up my points.
1. Stephen Patterson and Marvin Meyer's English translation is a most famous Gospel of Thomas.
Check out Amazon's page for instance. When you try to plagiarize something, will you steal No.1 famous material word for word with the same title? And it is a matter of Gospels. When you cite Bible in conversations (Renard's book is a style of conversations' record), you wouldn't mention which version is, especially in case of being from the most famous translation. Gospels are among public domain which Robert Perry loves.
2. Gary Renards' book recommends us to compare itself with the current Gospel of Thomas.
His book says it used the same numbers for Jesus' sayings that you may compare with the Coptic version to show you which part is omited and changed in Parsah's version. When you have stolen the content, will you recommend the readers to compare yours with the original material?
3. Bruce MacDonald claims he is the true reincarnation of St. Thomas.
Gary's book touches the same topic of the saint's reincarnation. So, Bruce should be one of the parties interested. After the explosive sales of Gary's book which was once listed next to Harry Potter, what do you think the less-well-known public claimer of St. Thomas' reincarnation felt against the million hit? I bet he must have felt slapped in the face by the millions of Gary's readers in his imagination.
4. Bruce claims Gary Renard is the reincarnation of Simon Magus, and Magus faked A Course in Miracles.
It is strange that Robert Perry, the founder of "Circle of Atonement", hired the claims of Bruce who insists A Course in Miracles is a completely fake. (Circle of Atomenet is one of the organizations based on A Course in Miracles. COA once sued FIP which has the copyright of A Course in Miracles with the claim that ACIM be among public domain.) More absurd for me is that Bruce seriously insists Simon Magus(Gary, he means) dictated A Course in Miracles to Helen Schucman. Gary Renard, supposedly born in 50's, was a little boy in Massachusetts when Helen started scribing A Course in Miracles at N.Y. in 1965. Anyone, please explain me how a boy at Salem sent 1100 pages of inspirations to an assistant professor in Colombia University.
So my conclusion is smile and forgiveness.
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