The Lost Gospels [7/9]

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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[kimpunkrock]

by the way...aliens are all OVER the old testament.

[Elestareus]

I have notice the God of the old testament is completely different from the new testament God.

[MumblesOg]

Free will? Follow me or burn forever doesn't seem like much of a choice coming from a "loving God." It sounds like something the worst worldly dictator wouldn't even do. At least here they'd just kill you if you opposed them.

[sush139]

What is the name of the background church music?? It is so haunting! I am not Christian and so not familiar with this music. Please help!

[albeanmagz19]

Roman Catholics made fine artwork

[gatekeeperoflight]

The messiahs name is Yahusha and the father is Yahuah Elohim. And the first followers are called the Natsarim watchmen. The letter j never existed back then.

[ManchuDan22]

@Darlyon3 I teach in an inner-city high school, my subjects are Civics, Citizenship, Personal Finance and 20th Century History. Many of my students are non-english speaking, or very limited english.

[Darlyon3]

@ManchuDan22 what do you teach?

[luistpuig]

@ManchuDan22 kid, I traveled for over 25 years all over the world, LIVED in several countries, and have SEEN and LIVED as part of cultures other than this anglo-saxon one. God as a TRUE teacher, sets up the situations and it is up to EACH one f us to THINK about what we are facing AND make the right decisions... IT is not going to do a thing for us, IT sets up the lesson and keeps score on how we did! That forces EACH person to THINK and do!

and BTW I am a Senior Technical Instructor in DC.

[ManchuDan22]

@luistpuig "God is the Universe itself, the Intelligent Energy" Really what doctrine is that? Or did you just make it up?

Teacher? I'm a teacher, and god is NO colleague of mine! He is a crappy teacher; his lesson is muddled without clarity or focus. He has millions speaking for him, yet provides NO specific information. His students are so confused that they kill themselves and others because they don't understand what he wants!

I can see and touch a teacher, god is nothing but an ugly myth

[luistpuig]

@ManchuDan22 ... people, people.... people, please think! God is the Universe itself, the Intelligent Energy, that is not just the visible Universe but the unseen part of it to us (all those dimensions discovered by quatum mechanics) ... and what is His point? jess..... what is the point of a teacher in a school? we are in a gigantic classroom, where the "teacher" God, puts in front of each one of us situations WE have to navigate through so we then can learn from them.... please think!