Christians,what is your view on the gnostic and dead sea scrolls?

Answer 1

Dead sea scrolls are man made designs for viewing of the other mankind except those which are naturally designed but scrolls are not natural in nature.

The gnostic or knowledge which you have seen in pictures were pictures taken or shot through a camera by men and paste it on book s for you to view it.
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Answer 2

The legends of what was contained in the Dead Sea Scrolls are far beyond what was actually there. There were no lost books of the Bible or other literature that there was not already other copies of. The vast majority of the Dead Sea Scrolls were simply copies of books of the Old Testament from 250-150 B.C. A copy or portion of nearly every Old Testament book was found in Qumran. There were extra-biblical and apocryphal books found as well, but again, the vast majority of the scrolls were copies of the Hebrew Old Testament. The Dead Sea Scrolls were such an amazing discovery in that the scrolls were in excellent condition and had remained hidden for so long (over 2000 years). The Dead Sea Scrolls can also give us confidence in the reliability of the Old Testament manuscripts since there were minimal differences between the manuscripts that had previously been discovered and those that were found in Qumran.

The Gnostic gospels are writings by early "Christian" Gnostics. After the first century of Christianity, two primary divisions developed - the orthodox and the Gnostics. The orthodox Christians held to books we now have in the Bible and to what is today considered orthodox theology. The Gnostic Christians, if they can truly be described as Christians, held a distinctly different view of the Bible, of Jesus Christ, of salvation - and virtually every other major Christian doctrine. However, they did not have any writings by the apostles to give legitimacy to their beliefs.



That is why and how the Gnostic gospels were created. The Gnostics fraudulently attached the names of famous Christians to their writings, such as the gospel of Thomas, the gospel of Philip, the gospel of Mary, etc. The discovery of the Nag Hammadi library in northern Egypt in 1945 represented a major discovery of Gnostic gospels. These Gnostic gospels are often pointed to as supposed "lost books of the Bible."



So, what are we to make of the Gnostic gospels? Should some or all of them be in the Bible? No, they should not. First, as we pointed out above, the Gnostic gospels are forgeries. The Gnostic gospels were fraudulently written in the names of the apostles in order to give them a legitimacy in the early church. Thankfully, the early church fathers were nearly unanimous in recognizing the Gnostic gospels as promoting false teachings about virtually every key Christian doctrine. There are countless contradictions between the Gnostic gospels and the true Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The Gnostic gospels can be a good source to study early Christian heresies, but they should be rejected outright as not belonging in the Bible and not representing the genuine Christian faith.

Answer 3

The Gnostic books are distorted and was rejected on the grounds of authenticity. The Dead Sea scrolls present validity to the authenticity of some Old Testament documents and worth a good read.

Answer 4

Dead Sea Scrolls simply help authenticate old testament scriptures, and do little else.

Gnosticism is an ancient heresy that refuses to go away, probably because it appeals to fallible human nature in a very seductive way.

The Gnostic gospels are poorly written cut and paste jobs, that any student of authentic scripture can pick out as fake, with one glance.

In them we have some authentic truth interlaced with lots of old heresies.

They are a total waste of time.

Answer 5

The Dead Sea Scrolls have nothing to do with Christianity,except as a testament as to how accurate and reliable our Bibles are today.The Gnostic books were not written by people who knew Jesus,and were also written hundreds of years after Him.They are not accurate or reliable at all.

Answer 6

What little I know of them I find interesting. I think there are pieces of philosophy that were practiced by the early Christians that are not present in the 'canon'. There is some beautiful stuff in Philip and Thomas and Mary.

Answer 7

Christians don’t like gnostic scriptures, never have. It’s some serious competition for them, they no longer have a monopoly on christ you see.

Answer 8

I am a strong Christian but I honestly dont know a whole lot about it...you have inspired me! I will look into it! :)

Answer 9

Hmm, superfluous.

Answer 10

they might be interesting, but are they scripture, i would have to study them to make a decision