What do christians say to the 4 gospels that were destroyed?

Question

Still trying to brush it under the carpet after all these centuries?

Christians have a firm foundation for confidence in the unchanging text of both Testaments. Not only is there a super-abundance of 5,664 Greek manuscripts from which the original wording of New Testament books can be determined; there are also 18,000 other manuscripts in several other languages, e.g., Armenian, Latin Vulgate, Ethiopic, and more.

It is rare for secular books of antiquity to have as many as even a dozen ancient manuscripts. Typically their best copies date about 700-1000 years after the date of composition. By contrast, there are complete papyrus manuscripts of many entire New Testament books that date from a mere 100 years after the originals. One papyrus scrap of John 18 has been dated to as early as 115 A.D., just 25 years after John was written!

Answer 1

good question, I asked the same thing not that long ago, the Christians were quick to put them down as non-gospels, but the Gospel of St Thomas describes Jesus as a "great philosopher" not the son of God, this is why they were left out of the final book, because they didn't reflect the image that the Early church hierarchy had worked so hard to build up, the truth is that the Jesus of the bible never lived, he was just another fable, a myth, mostly taken from the Egyptian Book of The Dead

Answer 2

So a question arises ... which versions of the original Greek New testament do you accept? Between Manuscripts, there can be as much as 8% difference. 100 words, eight are different. That's eight pages worth of differences for each 100 written. I'm not talking about eight pages with a single difference, but eight full pages worth of difference per 100 pages.

The "original manuscripts" are not in complete word-for-word agreement as many propose. That is the basis for the debate over "majority text versions" of the bible. The differences between the manuscripts lead to quite remarkable differences in the readings.

Answer 3

I'm not sure which four gospels you are referring too. But I believe the bible was inspired by God through the Holy spirit, and scribed to the world, just as God wants it.

Folks: either you believe the whole bible, as God set it forth, or you don't. That's it. I have found the more I study, the more layers or information are revealed. Not one shred has been wrong yet. And as soon as there is something that is a lie in the bible, the whole Christian world will literally disintegrate. Until then, the "four gospels that were destroyed", probably were frauds, or destroyed because they were so by good and Godly means.

Answer 4

Only a human would pick what They want in a book and then claim it was inspired by God.
I hope God is happy his followers, see themselves as worthy enough to call some of His words irrelevant.

Answer 5

There are many books that have not been included in the bible. The decisions were made by the church. See the reference to check them out. They are collectively known as the Apocrypha.

Answer 6

i would like to read them and I condemn the ones who thought they had that much control over lives that they would destroy parts of the bible. It appears to me that there is something in them that the church at the time was afraid to have people know about, maybe it would cut the lining out of there pocket books and make them look like heretics today.

Answer 7

You are talking nonsence.

The Gospels weren't known as Gospels untill the Bible was finalised.

So anything left out wasn't a Gospel.

I am not even a Christian but I know enough about the Bibles creation to tell you, that you ever miss worded this or you are miss informed.

Are you talking about acknowledgement of the 4 scholarly sources of the Old Testament, Yahweh Elhorim, Preistly and (mind gone blank)?

Or the writings of Mary Magdeliene etc?

There is a lot to it, this is a very vague question.

Answer 8

there were many more than 4 gospels destroyed by the church fathers.

one of the most amusing things about modern christianity is that protestant churches imagine that they are basing their faith on 'the gospel' - without ever realising that it was the roman catholic church which decided what was going to be in 'the gospel' in the first place.

Answer 9

Do you know what a gospel is ?? Also if they where destroyed how do we read them and how can it be proven . Now, when did they get destroyed , who did it and why , also what are the names of these so called gospels .Sounds to me like Michel Moore is back in action is she ??

Answer 10

There seem to be a lot of woo-woo thiests here today, do none of you watch sport? By this time the God Squad are pretty well beaten into submission by people using logic, but they seem to be plenty of - "I don't know what you are talking about therefore your are wrong" God botherer's around!

(I'm just here beacuse the rugby has finished.)

Anyway - there was a load of junk left out of the Bible, and equally there was an enormous load left in. There was a general craze for prophets, prediction, rules and theological rhetoric from about 150CE (Common Era) who is surprised that it conflicts, is irrational, often immoral, and generally what you would expect from a disparate group of religious nutcases often with an alterior motive.

Certainly seems an obvious choice of text with which to base my decisons in the 20th Century.......