The Lost Gospels [2/9]

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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Education

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• thomas
• mary
• magdalene
• peter
• jesus
• christianity
• bible
• new
• testament
• islam
• muslim
• qur'an
• quran
• allah
• muhammad
• sunnah

[koteshub]

writings do not burn

[erlingurt]

Are these findings not showing clearly that Islam is a fake?



[theP3rSonhuRocks]

@taleofsixstrings I do not believe in the writings outside of those found within the King James version bible, however i am skeptical. One could see how these verses reflect on Jesus' way of speaking in parables. And in the Case of "being Male" Many times Jesus used whit to outsmart the pious Church leaders.

On the other hand one must keep understanding that in all walks of Jesus' life he was opposed by even his close friends, someone in a pen name could try and gain creditability with fallacy

[taleofsixstrings]

because someone wrote them in acient times it doesn't mean these scrolls are to be believed. there are many people spreading falsehoods against Jesus now, and even in old times evil people will do it, writing on scrolls was their form of communication just as we write blogs now. obviously not every blog is to be believed either. evil people will always seek to discredit Jesus, modern or old. there's obviously a reason why these scrolls did not make it.

[AIajmis]

if you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth saves you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. He's talking about honesty and false appearances.

[nabuchiznasar]

@jjobie go and preach to all corners of the earth what ye have heard and seen, u recieved ur gifts for free so ya shal give for free...ironically till this current day the most zealous christians are so called gentiles. examples are irish people, and germans of course eventhough they took the teachings over board as jesus never ever preached violence other than to protect ones self or family when u had no other choice.. jesus was no hypocrit either, as he didnt protect him self from death..

[nabuchiznasar]

@jjobie god bless u , people want partial truths just because it suits their individual needs, but i tell u any person who has tampered with gods words be it christian jew muslim or gentile shall have a harsher punishment than a pagan, as some pagans did not have the blessings of hearing the good word, every soceity has been justly treated by god, jesus said i was sent to the lost sheep of israil, but most believers ironically where non hebrews, only after his ressurection did he order his ,con

[KayBeeEee1983]

I think the dating of the gospel of thomas is probably more like the books of psalms and proverbs. They come from a wide range of dates.