The Gospel of Thomas just utterly conflicts with the principles and timbre of the Tanach/OT/NT that I'm not sure how it can be taken as sound in the context of the existing scriptures. Its reference to "the All" is reminiscent of the Kybalion. It speaks of females as second class and unacceptable before the Throne of Grace: no doubt a Gnostic leverage for promoting butch feminism.
Plainly, the NT speaks of regenerate men and regenerate women as equals rather than suggesting women needing to (somehow) become men in order to be acceptable. That doctrine of women needing to become men is reminiscent of the hatred expressed for women in certain circles.
Of course, a man and his wives are one, so the wife is part of the husband and vice versa. You see how men and women can be one and how a man can have both genders without some Dark Rites Ritual being performed: simply, its called marriage. Also, on related note, consider the idea of copulins together with the false notions of "the evils of patriarchy": a man dedicates his life to the protection and care of his wives and children and that is allegedly evil? But a woman spending her life for the sake of self-pleasure, material gain even if that means manipulating and destroying lives is allegedly 'good'? The U.S.A. probably haven't been under proper patriarchy probably since the 1930s or 1940s and much has gone down the toilet since. A nation of unregenerate, life-hating women and their feminized male cohorts have turned USA, Inc. into a surrogate husband. Maybe someone should tell the feminists that all the companies they work, which feed and protect them for were created by men who very likely will admit to the blessing of women that helped them through life (mom, sisters, wife, etc.).
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