i'm a christain but why is it that when the bible was being created(and when i say created i don't mean the individual books were being written i'm speaking of when the books were being discovered and comprised together to form the bible) did they pick and choose which books to admit into the bible and the 12 remaining ones are the "agonostic gospels" which were seen as "unfit" for the bible..they were all discovered together so why in the world did they choose to jus not put those books in?
2007-08-12 12:31:25 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Not agnostic gosels. The Gnostic Gospels. They were not included in the canon because they were not considered to be in line with Church doctrine. Gnosticism, despite the presence of several early Gnostic Christian groups, was eventually considered incompatible with the teachings of the Church.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnostic_gospels
2007-08-12 12:42:51 · answer #1 · answered by solarius 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because not everything everyone writes down on the subject of religion is inspired by God and contains His truth. For instance, would you include The DaVinci Code in the Bible? The Church wished to put together a book of writings for the faithful, but there needed to be some sort of vetting process to separate the inspired from the made-up, the true prophets/witnesses from the false. Asking the Holy Sprit to guide them, the Church took the manuscripts and looked at them in light of what they knew about God's Truth. If something directly contradicted the message Christ taught, then surely it could not have been inspired by God, and so it was not included in the Bible. Even if all the manuscripts - gnostic and cannon - were found together, that does not mean that all were inspired. Early Christians also struggled to differentiate between what should be taught and what shouldn't. Thus several writings were collected that may not have been inspired. It was for this reason that the Church had to make a decision once and for all, to avoid having people be led astray by false teachings.
2007-08-13 08:26:26 · answer #2 · answered by Caritas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This book might help you find an answer:
"Where we got the Bible"
http://www.amazon.com/Where-Got-Bible-Henry-Graham/dp/1888992042
2007-08-12 20:08:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know for sure, but I heard it was because they were written in a different language than the others.
2007-08-12 19:51:43 · answer #4 · answered by Girl 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Men couldn't agree as to which books where "inspired of god" and which weren't
2007-08-12 19:47:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋