the gnostic gospels...............?

Question

were also written by men, are they not god inspired?

Answer 1

There's no evidence of it, because there is no evidence of the existence of god. I'm sorry to say this (but you did ask in your profile), but some people look better in a burkha, and you are one of them.

Answer 2

Good question.

The rule for whether a text became accepted scripture was not only the claims the authoer/text amde about inspiration, but also whether it fit into the historical norms that emerged as Christianity solidified as a faith. It also depended if communities had a general consensus about whether or not it shoudl be widely used.

There were some close calls--the gospel of John, for ex., almost didn't make it.

I think it's an individual's call--or that of a faith community--whether or not a gnostic text is divinely inspired

Answer 3

They're not considered 'true' gospels by most Christians as they were often written centuries after the famous four canonical ones. They are probably less 'authentic' historically. But they're still really interesting as examples of how people made sense of their fervent beliefs in God, so yes you could say they're 'God-inspired' in that sense. If you mean 'did God send the writers a divine vision etc in which He told them what to write', that's up to you to decide. Belief at the time was (as now) extremely varied.

The Christian canon was formulated long after Jesus' death, so there are lots of documents which enjoyed popularity but were not included, such as The Shepherd of Hermes.

Answer 4

Any text which brings a person closer to God, or causes that person to walk the walk like they should, is a text inspired of God.
Now if the text you are reading contradicts the Words of God (KJV) then do not read it.
If then what i teach, for example, is the Truth, then it is God inspired. This would also apply to texts of antiquity or texts of present day.



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Answer 5

Imagine a big event happening tomorrow and then think how each news channel and paper puts their own spin on it to draw the viewers / readers. This is what happened with the 'bible' stories they were each biased towards an audience or the author. Easy really.

Answer 6

are gnostics considered gospel???NOT>>>>>

Answer 7

Uh no