The catholic church got rid of a few gospels. Seems like you aren't getting the whole story. If Harry Potter fans were denied a couple chapters or books, heads would roll!
2007-08-12 18:28:25 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Is the God who created the world subject to what man decides we can know? Only someone who did not know God would have such a concern.
2007-08-12 18:37:11 · answer #1 · answered by djmantx 7 · 8⤊ 1⤋
By definition, the non-included books are not books of the Bible. For the first 3 centuries there was a variety of Christian texts in circulation. Eventually a group of church elders sat down and codified which writings were authentic religious texts. A great number of books were left out because they were of highly questionable origin. Hence, they were never part of the Bible. The Bible consists only of books deemed to be authentic. The Catholics never removed anything for the work entitled "the Bible."
After Protestants came into being they DID remove a couple books from the Bible. Hence, Catholic and protestant Bibles have different numbers of books in them.
If someone wrote their own chapter about Harry Potter and tried to get it inserted into a HP book, wouldn't you object to the publisher saying no on the grounds that only JK Rowling can write canonical info on Harry?
(non-Christian historian who gets really tired of this half-truth accusation)
2007-08-12 19:09:02 · answer #2 · answered by Nightwind 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with Craig R.
Most of the so call Apocryphal and Gnostic Gospels are either fragments or the first and second century AD equivalents of new age nonsense.
There are a few texts that could be fragments of lost gospels but generally all that's left are paragraphs or one or two pages.
There are a few "Gnostic" texts which probably are not heretical ( by modern standards) but have been rejected cause the author wrote other heretical works.
2007-08-12 18:45:28 · answer #3 · answered by JeeVee 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
in the event that they do get in in any case "disappointed", it incredibly is because of the fact people who provide such "reminders" are frequently doing in an attempt to make the Bible out to be advertising homicide and intercourse, etc, (or spouse beating as an ignorant poster above believes) which it does not. Such insinuations relax upon the favored opinion that the Bible is a obtuse nebulous e book that defies systematic theology, and extremely actually ignores the demonstrable reality that actual Christian church homes for whom the Bible (not a Pope) is the superb authority at the instant are not usual for religious violence (and in something, some tend in the direction of finished pacifism or celibacy), and events of sexual immorality are punished as being precisely that. issues like the Crusades and Inquisitions required enforced lack of information of the Bible, not faithfulness to the instructions and occasion of Christ, and Rome punished people who studied and sought to stay by the Bible, whilst it contradicted Rome, it particularly is in many situations does. (Gal 4:29) "yet as then he that replaced into born after the flesh persecuted him that replaced into born after the Spirit, yet it incredibly is now." (John 3:3) "Jesus replied and suggested unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, different than a guy be born back, he can't see the dominion of God." (Acts 3:19) "Repent ye consequently, and be switched over, that your sins could be blotted out, whilst the situations of clean shall come from the presence of the Lord;"
2016-12-15 13:28:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible we have today is the true inspired Word of God.
It has been preserved through the ages and is complete.
If you are speaking of those so-called gospels of Thomas and of Mary, etc., the gnostic gospels, those are heresies and lies.
2007-08-12 18:39:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
"The catholic church got rid of a few gospels..."
*sigh*
Another pseudo-scholar.
For a detailed study of the development of the Canon of the New Testament, please take the time to look through this website,
http://www.ntcanon.org/
2007-08-12 18:38:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
You have that factually wrong, the Catholic Bible has more books. Some were deleted by Luther.
2007-08-12 18:36:54 · answer #7 · answered by great gig in the sky 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Christians had never accepted the "gospels" you refer to.
2007-08-12 18:37:45 · answer #8 · answered by Travis J 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They got rid of the gospels that were crap, thats all. The ones that didn't mesh with the truth were discarded, but yeah, you can still read them. Once you do you'll see why they got defenestrated!
2007-08-12 18:36:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 3⤋
They're available for us to read if we want. There's not much there that's helpful.
2007-08-12 18:35:01 · answer #10 · answered by Craig R 6 · 8⤊ 0⤋