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Cynically put, if you think that you know what the authors must have intended and that their intent is not reflected in the extant "received text", and if you have a non-divine view of the Christ, you'll probably like the Jefferson Bible. Basically it's an attempt to make Jesus fit conveniently into and 1780s mold.
If you think that the wrong side won in the ecclesiastical "wars" in the first three centuries AD/CE (esp. if you think there were only two sides, and were no more wars than the "linguistic wars" in linguistics in the early 1970s), and still want to consider yourself Xian, you'll more likely have a positive view of the Gnostic Bible.
The "Gnostic Bible" likely was never considered such by the people that liked the individual texts; it's a set of texts defined by the winning side, and probably doesn't form a coherent whole in any non-traditional-Christian thinking predating 1950.
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