Editing Gospel of Thomas (section)

=== Logion 114 ===
{{blockquote|Simon Peter said to them, "Mary should leave us, for females are not worthy of the life." Jesus said, "Look, I am going to guide her in order to make her male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every female who makes herself male will enter the kingdom of heaven."|''Logion'' 114}}

The final saying of the Gospel of Thomas is one of the most controversial and has been highly debated by academics.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Marjanen |first=Antti |title=Thomas at the Crossroads: Essays on the Gospel of Thomas |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |year=2000 |editor-last=Uro |editor-first=Risto |location=London |pages=95 |chapter=Women Disciples in the Gospel of Thomas}}</ref> It has been criticised for implying that women are spiritually inferior, but some scholars argue that it is symbolic, with "male" representing the prelapsarian state.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Buckley |first=Jorunn Jacobsen |date=1985 |title=An Interpretation of Logion 114 in "The Gospel of Thomas" |journal=Novum Testamentum |volume=27 |issue=3}}</ref> [[Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley]] argued that Logion 114 represents a process with females becoming male before achieving the prelapsarian state, a reversal of the Genesis story in which women were made from men.<ref name=":1" /> Melissa Harl Sellew's trans-centred reading emphasizes the idea that the outer appearance must be transformed to reflect the inner reality.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sellew |first=Melissa Harl |title=Reading the Gospel of Thomas from Here: A Trans-Centred Hermeneutic |url=https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:29255/ |journal=Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies |date=2020 |language=en-US |pages=89 |doi=10.17613/4etz-b919}}</ref>