What do you think of a church that teaches & preaches from The Lost Books of the Bible?

Question

Why do they call them Lost Books when the books have been found? It could be God would have wanted one or more of those lost books included in the current Bible. Wouldn't it make sense to read and study some of those books. Anyone know the website for the lost books?

Answer 1

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I think that this church should prayerfully consider the following scripture:

Revelation 22:18,19 - "If anyone makes an addition to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this scroll; and if anyone takes anything away from the words of the scroll of this prophecy, God will take his portion away from the trees of life and out of the holy city, things which are written about in this scroll."

Answer 2

There's a reason most of those books were "lost"

Either:

a) It's a book which dates from after the time of Christ and is a gnostic work. The gospels of Thomas, Mary Magdalene, and Judas, amongst others, were widely known in the ancient Christian world. The problem with these books is that they espouse a gnostic view of the faith, that some elite followers would have secret knowledge that the plebes do not have. That's why those gospels were cut from the final core of the Bible.

b) It's a extrascripture invention of some schmuck. I'm talking about Mormons, Christian Scientists, Seventh-Day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses, basically any Christial sect which uses a work written by some "later prophet" or "last prophet" etc. which has no direct lineage of actual witness to the Lord's works. They claim their works are "lost" like the Books of Mormon, allegedly written out in gold which has never been seen by anyone other than Mr. Smith..

The current books of the Bible and the Vatican's insistance on Papal primacy both derive from the same place - a memo. Essentially, the Bishop of Rome, with the help of St Jerome, fine-tuned a list of scriptural books which were in agreement with the core message of the faith. All later Bibles are based upon this same list, which excluded the gnostic gospels and never included the 18th through 21st century works some people pass off as scriptural.

Answer 3

Here is a list of the books that were accepted, and rejected when the canon of the Bible was done at the end of the 3rd century. Note that some of them no longer exist. The rejected books contained some truths, but also contained Gnostic heresies, such as the Gospel of Thomas. http://www.scborromeo.org/truth/fig4.htm

The rejected books were NOT the Deuterocanonical books, which Martin Luther threw out of the Bible because they did not suit his invented doctrines. These books were listed at the same time all the New Testament books were included in the canon of the bible, and anyone can read the Council of Hippo documents for themselves to see that the Deuterocanonical Books (mistakenly called Apochrypha books) were part of the bible, and always were until the Deformers tried to throw them out.

Martin Luther added the word "alone" to Romans 2:28, to justify his invented "justified by faith alone" heresy. Thus, he further adulterated the bible.

It is hate-mongering anti-Catholic bigots who are afraid of the facts of history, and so have to re-write the facts in order to justify their hatred for the Catholic Church, and their "Reader's Digest" version of the Bible.

The Protestants attempt to defend their rejection of the deuterocanonicals on the ground that the early Jews rejected them. However, the Jewish councils that rejected them (e.g., School of Javneh (also called “Jamnia” in 90 - 100 A.D.) were the same councils that rejected the entire New Testatment canon. Thus, Protestants who reject the Catholic Bible are following a Jewish council that rejected Christ and the Revelation of the New Testament.

Answer 4

Interesting lost books. There are not lost books there maybe books out there but.It states in the bible nothing is to be added or taken away from the bible. GOD commanded this. So any church that teaches from so called lost books of the bible is not a christian church. They are going against what GOD commanded

Answer 5

I think its great that they may finally get a grasp of their past. Considering the Council of Nicea is what the modern bible is modeled after. Maybe they will see that it's not all been peas and carrots as they might think.

So if "god" commanded that the good book not be changed then everything in your King James Bible is flawed. Considering it has been enhanced, translated, taken away from, translated, added to, translated, and then after 3000 years of debate a few guys got together and decided what was suppose to be in there. I applaud these churches (which I rarely do) for seeking out their true past. Walking blindly leads no where quick.

Answer 6

Who told you those are the 'lost books' of the BIBLE? Bible has never lost any of its books. Anything that is found in the name of a biblical character doesn't mean that was a part of the Bible. There are accepted methods and traditions to determine these things.

Answer 7

These "lost" books were deemed herasy by the early church. All of them either contradicted the Old Testament, or were written too late to be legitamate texts. That is why texts such as the Gospel of Judas, characterizing him as a hero, instead of a villan for turning Jesus in to the authorities, were banned.

Answer 8

One of the "lost" Books of the Bible that has been "found" is the Gospel of Barnabas. The Gospel has been printed (in small quantity) and sold. I don't really know where to find it in the website. How about you try www.harunyahya.com.

Answer 9

Read the Epistle of Barnabas. This Book was accepted as Canon for quite a time. It is not wrong to study the early writings of Christians. You will learn alot.

Answer 10

the books are not lost f you can find them. they are called lost books because the roman catholic church condemmed them as being to jewish or not in line with the message they were trying to pass along.
they can still be ordered from any good bookstore if they don't have a copy on the shelf and there are still copies in print. otherwise look in a used bookstore under religon or bibles.