The Lost Gospels [1/9]

The Lost Gospels, presented by Anglican priest Pete Owen Jones, is a fascinating exploration into the huge number of ancient Christian texts that didn't make it into the New Testament. Shocking and challenging, these were works in that presented a Jesus who didn't die, who took revenge on his enemies and who kissed Mary Magdalene on the mouth. This Jesus is unrecognisable from that found in the traditional books of the New Testament.

Pete travels through Egypt and the former Roman Empire looking at the emerging evidence of a Christian world that's very different from the one we know. He discovers that in addition to the gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke and John, there were over 70 gospels, acts, letters and apocalypses circulating in the early Church.

Through these lost Gospels, Owen Jones reconstructs the intense intellectual and political struggles for orthodoxy that were fought in the early centuries of Christianity, a battle involving different Christian sects, each convinced that their gospels were true and sacred.

The worldwide success of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code has sparked new interest about the origins of the Christian faith. Pete Owen Jones sets out the context in which heretical texts like the Gospel of Mary emerged. He also strikes a cautionary note: if these lost Gospels had been allowed to flourish, Christianity may well have faced an uncertain future, or perhaps not survived at all.

The documentary, although a great feat of scholarship falls short of exploring some other important manuscripts such as the Gospel of Judas and the Gospel of Barnabas. It also fails to eplore the evidences in the gospels of the other possibility of Christ's nature: that he was entirely human.

However, the question that really needs to be asked is: isn't God himself supposed to decide what comprises of His book?

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[XpistosRules]

@Gazdo01 Right on! False gospels had no place in the canon because they were inconsistent with it as well as the well accepted OT. Thumbs down on this video!

[JustJoeKane]

mick jagger?

[Libya4LY]

Islam is the TRUTH. PLEASE just take some time to understand Islam and read the Quran. You will definitely be amazed.

[1808lovely1]

@SonOfLight1979 try the oldest libraries you can find



[Gazdo01]

If "this" Gospel had come out, then this... If "that" Gospel had come out, then that...

Such logic is futile and franckly puerile.

Those "gospels" were NOT selected, and there is a reason: they are MADE UP forgeries.

The marks of Canonical Texts:

1. Written in Apostollic Times

2. Orthodoxy, i.e. represents the Apostollic Faith

3. Catholicity, i.e. were universaly used by the different Churches of the world

All the Apocrypha DON'T respect those 3 criterias, therefore were NOT seclected

[Mellisa582010]

@SonOfLight1979

Go to Amazon or Barnes and Noble.. There are several compilations available. I'm a Gnostic Christian so the "lost books" of the bible are important to me personally. We Gnostics were persecuted nearly from the beginning & many of our books were lost.

Google "Gnosis" "Gnostic"

"Nag Hammadi"

"Cathars"

Gospel according to Thomas.

"Hermetic philosophy"

There are many books about that period of time,some better than others.

The Gnosis Archive - Gnosis.org.

[Uenbg]

of course...BBC

no surprise there.

Here's a rabbit for you people to follow instead of wasting your time on this:

Haeckel

Or just check out my channel's favorites.

[TheEnforcer357]

Christians have been hiding too much from the world to protect their false claims I think they deep inside know they are lying but convince themselves everything will be okay & their lies are for a good cause