The current Bible contains 4 Gospels, but I believe that many more were written, but left out. Are they trying to hide something?
2007-02-16 10:47:08 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Certainly - it didn't suit them to let the world know the facts.
Dis-included Gospels include Phillip, Judas, Thomas and Mary.
The Divici Code is based on much of the information read in these gospels.
It's delightful to see the Catholics blindfolded to the facts.
Thee of these missing gospels can be found in the Museum in Egypt.
2007-02-16 10:57:08 · answer #1 · answered by Davy Crockett 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are several other gospels such as the gospel of St Thomas. The Catholic Church does not suppress them - they are freely available to buy in most large Christian book stores.
The Bible was complied in 325 AD by a council of bishops who decided which books would form the Bible and which would not. These other books are called the Apocrypha and are not banned books - they were not put in the Bible to make the Bible an easier size to copy.
Have a look at this wikipedia article for more details, I bet it has mnore information than I do:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocrypha
2007-02-16 18:57:22 · answer #2 · answered by monkeymanelvis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. But the Catholic Church is the arbiter of Scripture (the Church came before Scripture, not the other way around) - and - since the Church is the Body of which Jesus Christ is the head and all Baptized persons are the members - AND, because the Church was filled with the Holy Spirit on the first Pentecost, it is up to that body to determine, in Ecumenical Council, which "books" are inspired and which are not. The so-called apocryphal and pseudopigryphal "gospels" were found to be lacking and contradictory to the four that were chosen
2007-02-16 18:53:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Haven't you heard of the Apocrypha (hidden or questionable books)? Well, it wasn't the Catholic Church as such who left any of the New Testament Scriptures out of the Holy Book collection, it was a council (the Septuagint) that decided which were inspired by God and which were NOT. They probably had some kind of gadget to do it. I mean, who IS qualified to decide what is and what isn't God-inspired? All versions of the Bible have the same Books in the New Testament because there was an agreement to leave the other Gospels and writings out.
What the Vatican did do was to include Books that were not accepted as inspired by God (not even by the Jews). Such books are considered as Apocrypha of the Old Testament by other Judeo-Christian religions: Maccabees I & II, Tobias, Judith, Baruch, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus.
2007-02-16 19:58:28 · answer #4 · answered by latinoldie 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Church rejected "gospels" that were not only contradictory to apostolic teaching but were written very late. The Gospel of Judas was written in the second or third century; Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were all written in the first.
2007-02-16 18:58:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The history of the Church itself clearly states that the Council of Nicaea crafted the bible as we know it in 325 AD when Christianity was adopted as the state religion of Rome. All mention of Jesus as a mythical figure was eliminated, and the rules were established and enforced militarily by the most effective empire on the planet.
During the European Enlightenment period of the eighteenth century, many educated people acknowledged that Christianity was simply another mythology like that of the early Norsemen, Roman or Greeks. The Founders of the United States were among these thinkers.
2007-02-16 18:56:20 · answer #6 · answered by nora22000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There were only 4 Gospels written and The Catholic Church did not leave any out
God Bless you
2007-02-16 18:51:11 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I think the catholic church are hiding a great deal. One of the omitted gospels was supposed to have been written by Mary Magdalen herself.
2007-02-16 21:57:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, there are other gospels. Yes, the Catholic Church decided which gospels were worthy of a place in the canon and which weren't. Either you trust the Catholic Church to get it right or you don't.
2007-02-16 19:02:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Quite possible. The early church was run by people who wanted to control the people, and present their ideas first. Some of the Gospels go totally against what the main four do, but some are very close to the four apostles books. Those are the ones you can consider mostly valid. Remember that the disciples had the best view on his life, and what he really was doing and teaching.
2007-02-16 18:52:01 · answer #10 · answered by anamaradancer 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋