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The Lost Gospels: What the Apocryphal Gospels Are, Why They Were Rejected, and Why They Still Matter for Christians

The Lost Gospels: What the Apocryphal Gospels Are, Why They Were Rejected, and Why They Still Matter for Christians

Ellington, Grace

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Bible Studies

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ISBN13: 9798185831458
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.36 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
You have heard it in documentaries and thrillers: the Church buried the gospels that would have changed everything. The truth is stranger, calmer, and far more interesting.

The lost gospels are real, and they are fascinating. But they were not, for the most part, hidden away by frightened bishops. Most were written later than the four we know, often under a borrowed apostle's name, by communities on the edges of the early church. The Church read them, weighed them in the open, and did not receive them as Scripture, for reasons you can see and judge for yourself.

This is a short, warm, honest investigation for people of faith. It walks you text by text through the apocryphal gospels, the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Peter, the Gospel of Judas, the Gospel of Mary, and more, and shows you when they were written, what they teach, and why the four were kept. It ends not in doubt but in clarity.

Inside this book:

  • What the apocryphal gospels actually say, in plain language
  • Why lost almost always means perished, not suppressed
  • How the New Testament canon was recognized, not invented by a secret vote
  • How to tell a historical curiosity from a spiritual authority
  • What scholars really think, with the contested points honestly hedged

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