For ex, didn't he believe that there was a dual father/mother god? Didn't he follow gnostic teachings? Or was gnosticism created after his death?
2006-08-23 14:11:13 · 16 answers · asked by ? 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jesus believed in the Jewish God Yahweh. Gnostics were a sect of his followers that arose a century or so after he died. As for information about him that was left out of the Bible, there is no account of his childhood in the official Bible, but there is something called "the Infancy Gospel of Thomas" that was circulating back when the church fathers were deciding what was in the book or out of it. It didn't make it in.
2006-08-23 14:17:54 · answer #1 · answered by Spel Chekker 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why would we think He believed there was a dual mother/father God? Gnostic teachings were after Him.
People make up a lot of things that Jesus did or taught or believed but what would make them more trustworthy than the Bible? At least the Bible has several agreeing witnesses. The other texts do not.
2006-08-23 21:17:12 · answer #2 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
No to the second, and no to the third question
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The doctrines of certain pre-Christian pagan, Jewish, and early Christian sects that valued the revealed knowledge of God and of the origin and end of the human race as a means to attain redemption for the spiritual element in humans and that distinguished the Demiurge from the unknowable Divine Being.
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Gnosticism
n : a religious orientation advocating gnosis as the way to release a person's spiritual element; considered heresy by Christian churches [syn: Gnosticism]
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2006-08-23 21:34:18 · answer #3 · answered by rangedog 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The majority of his life from shortly after his birth until he began preaching around 30 is what was left out. I have never read anything in the bible that mentioned a dual God....so I can't speak to that. The few gnostic texts I have read, " The Gospel of St. Thomas" and the "The Gospel of Judas" struck me as true to what he preached. Its a shame that one religious organization chose what to include or exclude from the New Testament. Just as science cannot prove or disprove that the Shroud of Turin was Christ burial shroud........I feel it is, the firemen who rescued it from the church a few years ago were changed forever. It was housed in a huge oak and bullet proof glass case but when those men lifted it it was as light as air. If you ever have the chance to watch the program about it and see their testimony you may know the truth in your heart as I do. I look forward to reading other gnostic texts myself. Many are deceived, only a few truely have the veil lifted.
2006-08-23 21:21:20 · answer #4 · answered by WitchTwo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
His entire youth was left out of the bible.There is virtually no mention of his life from the ages of aproximately 1 year through 33+ years.And Gnosticism happened after his death,around the first few centuries A.D.
2006-08-23 21:15:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
One piece of information that is left out of the Bible is about Jesus's (peace be on him) childhood. You don't see much at all about His childhood. You don't know who His childhood friends were, if He went to some school or was a self-taught carpenter. Scholars are trying as hard as they can to find information about His childhood. They have uncovered many historical documents talking about His life, but not His childhood.
2006-08-23 21:16:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book. But these are written so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name.
2006-08-23 21:19:23 · answer #7 · answered by andy c 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing was left out of my KJV Bible. It is the true inspired word of God. It comes complete. People need to reread the Bible, not try to rewrite it.
2006-08-23 21:37:17 · answer #8 · answered by concerned 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Everything we need to know for Salvation and a life of peace and love is contained in His perfectly preserve Word.
2006-08-23 21:13:55 · answer #9 · answered by Mike A 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the fact that he was married to mary, the fact that he had a child to her, the fact that he was just a man
2006-08-23 21:15:34 · answer #10 · answered by Brutal_Yet_Beautiful 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋