The Lost Gospels [3/9]

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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• jesus
• christianity
• bible
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• testament
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• quran
• allah
• muhammad
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[303Miles]

None of these people depicted in the art were white so that should tell you something right there.

[maxDSferris]

There's a whole Orthodox church in Russia dedicated to Mary Mag... only the Catholics/Protestants ignore her. 

[MumblesOg]

@FToniS In the NT its okay for a man to divorce a woman if she displeases him or commits adultery. The language is pretty clear that only the man really matters in those cases. Just a few verses where women are considered subservient to men in the NT. There isn't much room for characters, so instead of quoting the verses, I just cited them.

1 Corinthians 14:34;1 Corinthians 11:2-10; Ephesians 5:22-24 ; 1 Timothy 2:13-15 ;Titus 2:3-5 ;1 Peter 3:1-7 ; Revelation 14:1-4 ;Colossians 3:18

[maxDSferris]

@ramatirthadasa You might want to stop for cows - because they own you!

[ramatirthadasa]

@maxDSferris might want to stop Thor from nailing your God to the cross instead of fighting with me

[maxDSferris]

@ramatirthadasa Same difference. 

[ramatirthadasa]

@maxDSferris I'm a Hindu you stupid ####!

[maxDSferris]

@ramatirthadasa Fuck you Muslim terrorist

[ramatirthadasa]

@maxDSferris Dumbass of the day

[ramatirthadasa]

@FToniS Another brainwashed mainstream "Christian"

[FToniS]

This documentary is full of inaccuracies. I'm shocked at the bad presentation, particularly some of the inaccurate statements he makes in regard to women in the New Testament.

[theP3rSonhuRocks]

It isn't within the Words of the book that gives you eternal life, it is the subject of the word of God that is rewarded. The same could be said for the Bible without these "Gospels", Books cannot save you from hell, it is faith, and faith is built through understanding, and understanding of God's word brings salvation not the literal words but the premise of what was said.