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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[kamj1969]

Listen to Bart Erham videos. Didn't know that the four canonical gospels were not written by any of the disciples whose name are used to name them. I thought that was shocking.

[Sidney Mathious]

I was guided by the Holy Spirit to investigate into other possible books and found some myself. The New Testament always left blanks in the life of Jesus and I wanted to know what happened in his life and found the book of Nicodemus which tells of his entire life and even explains how he still stayed 40 days ministering to the Jews and Gentiles after returning from Heaven.

[SonofSethoitae]

Against Heresies is demonstrably wrong about many aspects of Gnosticism.

[Body Card]

This is deception! Please read this prophetic word from The Lord my husband received on 2/11/13! wp [dot] me/p2ZoUd-25

[dominick virgilio]

IF YOU WANT THE "TRUE" YESHUA READ THE ESSENE GOSPEL OF PEACE" AND THE GOSPEL OF THE HOLY TWELVE THE TRUE WAY TO SALVATION NOT DYING ON SOME CROSS, YESHUA VEGAN ESSENE, THESE MURDERING "BASTARDS" SO CALLED CHRISTIANS POLLUTE GODS TRUE TEMPLE WITH MEAT, DAIRY AND JUNK , ITS AN ABOMINATION ONTO ALMIGHTY GOD ( GENESIS 1:29) IS HIS ALL TIME DIET AND IT BETTER BE OBEY OR YOU ARE "OUT" 'REPENT FROM YOUR FILTHY "SIN OF DIET"