James Talarico's crazy Gospel of Thomas teaching: 10 Qs with Mike Winger (Ep 72)

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Mike Winger

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 20 March 2026

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Question Time Stamps for Quick Reference: 0:00 - Intro1. 0:16 {James Talarico & the Gospel of Thomas} Can you offer your thoughts on James Talarico and his teaching relating to the Gospel of Thomas?2. 28:58 {Converting from Judaism} I’m a 19 year old Jewish believer. I want to get baptized and go to church, but my rabbinic/secular family is against it and some don’t know about my faith yet. How can I wisely share my faith without messing up?3. 33:36 {How to Walk by The Spirit} Regarding Romans 8:4-6, how do we walk according to the Spirit and set our minds on the Spirit?4. 39:21 {Denomination Boards = Eldership?} I’m wondering if elders are solely a local church function/office/role. Is a woman who is serving on a district or national denomination board biblically considered an elder?5. 43:38 {Biblical Justification: Works Based?} I’m struggling DEEPLY with James 2:24 vs. Romans 3:28. Your best argument in the video you did on this 7 years ago was the definition of "justified." But my NIV Bible says "considered righteous."6. 57:24 {God’s Calling, My Desires & My Fear} I feel drawn to teaching God's Word, but I’m also afraid. How can I tell if it's truly a calling from God and not just my own desire? I understand the responsibility and that scares me. Any guidance?7. 1:02:12 {Serving, Selfishness & Complaining} I am really bad at serving without complaining. I resist change even when I know I’m going to get on board in a day or two. May I have counsel to let my selfish guard down?8. 1:07:47 {“God’s Not Done…”?} Do you think there is anything wrong with the phrase “God isn’t done with you yet”? Can something like suicide diminish the amount that God would have used us?9. 1:11:05 {“Purity Culture”: Too Far?} What is a biblical perspective of “Purity Culture”? Is it actually something that goes too far? I'm not just talking about abstinence before marriage, but the idea of purity rings, no dating, etc.10. 1:16:35 {Miraculous Fakery: How do we Not Discard All Miracles?} I have found myself despising the miraculous due to the number of fakers out there. How do you guard against this as you have been working through exposing the fakery of the hyper-Charismatic church? Some useful resources below: Isaiah 53 prophecy about Jesus (Jewish objections answered): Click Here Full evidence for the Bible playlist: Click Here Full video on justification by faith and James chapter 2: Click Here My Women in Ministry series: Click Here Is it biblical to be “woke”?: Click Here https://BibleThinker.org

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0:00.0	It is when, well, I mean, in general, and people misuse the Bible, but in particular, when
0:07.9	politicians do it, when they do it, that is a particular pet peeve. And this is a good example of that.
0:15.1	It's a very egregious example of James. I think his name is Talarico. Now, I've been very,
0:20.0	very busy for many months. I've not been paying a lot of attention. I don't know is Tala Rico. Now, I've been very, very busy for many months. I've
0:21.4	not been paying a lot of attention. I don't know a lot about this guy, except that I see
0:25.5	headlines like, oh, he's going to turn Texas Democrat and things like that, which would be
0:29.9	as a Christian who has a biblical worldview, that would be a tragedy. But he's also says crazy stuff. And he's good looking dude and, you know,
0:42.7	he speaks very well and he's very like confident and assertive and all that. But man,
0:47.7	he says some nutty things. And we're going to talk about one of those nutty things about Christianity,
0:52.0	about the Bible, about the truth of God, of the gospel itself.
1:10.8	Today, it's about the gospel of Thomas. Now, for those of you who've never heard this, let me set this up a little, and then I'll play the clip for you, and then I'll respond to it. We're going to look at the gospel of Thomas today. We'll look at a good chunk of it, and I think you will find it rather interesting. Okay.
1:22.0	For starters, James Tolariko goes to a church service, and there he is, a politician, you know, speaking at a church service, which I'm not inherently opposed to that.
1:23.9	There can be a way to do that well.
1:26.2	It usually is not done well, in my opinion.
1:28.1	But I'm not saying it's completely wrong.
1:34.7	Oh, yeah, I got to get my counter up. I'll do it in a second. So he goes to the church service, and he wants to defend LGBTQ plus A, AIGC3PO, all that stuff. And in defending it, he's going to,
1:42.5	he's going to quote the gospel of Thomas. And because the gospel of Thomas is not in defending it, he's going to, he's going to quote the gospel of Thomas.
1:44.8	And because the gospel of Thomas is not in your Bible, he adds in there that it should have,
1:49.2	that it was basically, it should have been as the implication, that it was removed by authorities.
1:54.7	All right. Here's the clip. Then we'll walk through it. I'll get my, my light going while I
1:58.9	play this very short clip and then I'll respond to it in detail. In the Gospel of Thomas, which was later omitted from the Bible by church
2:08.3	officials, the Gospel of Thomas quotes Jesus as saying, when you make the male and female
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