What were some of the lost Gospels that were left out of the Canon and the first bible?

Answer 1

The site listed below describes many books that were left out of the canon. For instance,

The Apostolic Fathers include the epistles Clement 1, Clement 2, Barnabas, Polycarp; and Ignatius' epistles to the Ephesians, the Philadelphians, the Magnesians, the Romans, the Smyrnaeans, the Trallians, and to Polycarp; the Didache, Shepherd of Hermas, and Martyrdom of Polycarp.

For English translations of these manuscripts visit this external web site:

Fathers of the Christian Church
http://wesley.nnu.edu/noncanon/fathers.htm

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Answer 2

The 'Lost' Gospels? They are not "Lost," they simply were not included in the Bible because:

1. There was some doubt as to their authenticity.

Or:

2. They were not considered to be "Divinely Inspired;" in other words, they were just literature and had no place in the Bible.

Books not included in the Bible, but that at one time came up for review for possible inclusion are referred to as the "Apocrypha;" these do not include the Seven Books left out by the Protestant Bible which are included in the Catholic Bible. Remember, the Catholic Bible was the first Bible. It was the Catholic Church who gave birth to the Bible, and declared it to be "The Written Word of God" complete at 73 Books and all-inclusive known as: "The Holy Bible."

I don't have a complete list of the so-called 'Lost Gospels,' but included are The Gospel of Peter, The Gospel of Mary (Magdalene); The Gospel of Judas; The Gospel of Thomas. Other writings that did not make the Canon of the Bible are:

The Revelation of Pontius Pilate, and (Old Testament material): The Alphabet of Ben Sirah.

Of course, there were many, many more which is why the Catholic Church had to sort through them so that the Faithful would not be reading folklore, heretical material, or just plain fictive literature.

I hope this helped.

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Answer 3

There are more than one hundred Gnostic gospels. None of them made it into the accepted canon of the New Testament. Most of them were rife with ridiculous stories, out and out heretical theories and fanciful notions. Not to mention that they claimed authorship by individuals long dead before the "gospel" was ever composed.

The Gospels of: Mary, Phillip, Longinus, Marcion, are but a few. The Infancy Gospel of Thomas is one of the best known and silliest.

Get a book titled: The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden. It's got the biggies of Gnostic literature. Another is titled: The Nag Hammadi Scrolls. It contains the translations of the books found in Egypt. Some of them are hysterically funny, btw.

Answer 4

They were the ones that were too inconvenient since they would have proved there are a whole lot of different versions of what happened two thousand years ago. Early spin doctoring.