What are the gnostic gospels and dead sea scrolls???

Answer 1

You guys know nothing.
The gnostic gospels are gospels made by Jesus' apostles themselves.

There were 12 apostles, but there are only 4 catholic gospels, the reason for them is because one of the popes decided to have only 4 gospels as he believed 4 was the perfect number and those were the gospels more similar in style.

While there are about 9 gospels in total. Of course, by examining the gospels and dead sea scrolls, it is known that some of these documents date from about 100 or more years after the crucifixion of christ, and thus the teachings are not original and can be corrupted.

Never the less at least 2 of these gospels are credited as being original, which are: Gospel of Thomas, and Gospel of James.

I invite everyone to read these 2 gospels, since they are full of enlightment for christians. The gospel of Thomas for example, contains a passage in which Women are described as being equal as Men.
And also mentions how close Marry Magdalene was to Jesus, in fact calling her the favorite disciple.

These are more advanced teachings, and believe me, they are original. Lets not forget that the catholic church is an institution funded by Men. And men are not perfect, so yes, some things have been corrupted and omited by the catholic church itself.

Answer 2

These are works that were omited (due to vote) from the cannon (accepted bible). Some of these were known for a long time and were simply called "apocraphal" writings. Some bibles even contained some very select examples of those, although they were always clearly marked as apocrapha.

Others, like the Dead Sea scrolls and the Nag Hamadi texts (Gnostic) were only uncovered in the last thirty or so years.

Gnostics were persecuted out of existance by the overall Christian Church by about 300 CE or so.

Answer 3

They are two entirely different things.

The gnostic gospels were gospels written, for the most part by the enemies of Christianity and deliberately used names of people that had problems on purpose. They were written to give a false alternative to the actual gospels written by the apostles. This is a quote about one of them: "In the 4th century, Cyril of Jerusalem mentioned a "Gospel of Thomas" in his Cathechesis V: "Let none read the gospel according to Thomas, for it is the work, not of one of the twelve apostles, but of one of Mani's three wicked disciples."


The Dead Sea Scrolls are among the oldest scrolls that have ever been found of the actual Hebrew Bible, there were also, some songs and rules for the group of scribes who lived at Qumran among the scrolls. These included the oldest copies of Isaiah ever. They were discovered by a shepherd boy in 1947. They include practically the only known surviving copies of Biblical documents made before 100 AD

Answer 4

The Apocrypha are numerous books, like the Maccabies, that the Catholic church believes must be lined interior the previous testomony inspite of the very shown fact that it rather is not any longer lined interior the Torah. The Gnostic gospels have been got here across between the ineffective Sea Scrolls and are not consistent with one yet another or the at present universal 4 interior the recent testomony. study it for exciting. Take in uncomplicated terms the historic fee of the Apocrypha heavily.

Answer 5

the gnostic gospels are writings that the council of nicea, for various reasons, did not include in the new testament. Among the reasons for exclusions were too many versions of same text (corruption) and writings that contradicted the accepted gospels.

the dead sea scrolls are a repository of ancient texts, biblical and otherwise. among scrolls found are an unknown psalm of david and a nearly complete copy of the book of Isaiah. exactly why the scrolls were left where they were is a matter of conjecture. however, based on the way they were stored it is more likely that the caves served as a 'graveyard' for damaged scrolls rather than as a library, as some have postulated.

Answer 6

The gnostic gospels are the heretical writings of the Gnostics who by their heresies tried to undermine the church.
The dead sea scrolls are the personal beliefs of that sect of ultra -stict Jews who lived near the dead sea and were called `Essenes`

Answer 7

If you compare The dead sea scrolls and the Bible you will notice that they have similar text..30% of all fragments are similar in to canonical hebrew bible.rest are commentaries,essenes rules etc..
The gnostic gospels are scriptures where is opposite point of view to the word of God and what so called fathers of church are abandonet from the Bible.

Answer 8

You can read them for yourself.
http://www.essene.com/Gospels/GnosticGospels.html

The Dead Sea Scrolls did not have any NEW books or secret volumes..It did have a very old copy of Isiah, that shows how the book had not changed in thousands of years.

Answer 9

what texts did you study???

talk about knowing nothing! bet you don't even know what the serpent savior of the gnostics is (it's LUCIFER which means "bearer or light").!

the gnostics believed that adam and eve were imprisoned in the garden by the Creator vs the Unknowable God. lucifer came to them as a serpent to enlighten them, not to deceive them.

futhermore, the gnostics believe Jesus was the second coming of lucifer to further enlighten humanity.

where the heck did you get your information - pulled it out of a hat?

the GOSPELS were written by the apostles and there were many more than those included in the king james bible - such as the apocrapha which covers a lot more law than that in the KJB in leviticus.

early Christianity had lots of sects just as the jewish religion had multiple "sects" of practioners. the gnostics and Christians diverged tremendously in that GNOSTIC Christians believed in Jesus even as the jews believed he existed. the jews - and even MUSLIMS - believe that Jesus was a prophet, though, not the Son of God.

the gnostics believed he was the second incarnation of lucifer.

Answer 10

The Dead Sea scrolls are a collection of Old Testament manuscripts that were found in a cave near the Dead Sea in Israel in the early 1950's. The collection includes copies of ever single Old Testament book except the book of Esther. (But not all the manuscripts have yet been identified. Many are in jigsaw piece size fragments).

They also included some translations of the Old Testament into other languages, some children's versions, and some text books and commentaries on the Old Testament. It also includes some manuals on the life style of the religious group the appears to have collected this library.

The manuscripts appear to date from as early as 400 BC to as late as 70 AD (when all the Jews were driven from Israel by the Romans).

Among the treasure found there are five copies of the book of Isaiah in nearly perfect condition. They appear (from the kind of "paper" used and lettering style) to date from around 400BD, just decades after the death of Isaiah. Yet they are word for word the same as the text used of Isaiah today.

No New Testament writting have been found in the scrolls. This leads many scholars to believe that the owners may be have abandoned the manuscripts before the time of Jesus. They may well have died during a plague around 150-120 BC that went through that area.

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The gnostic gospels are books which appeared after the time of Jesus. They were writings which claimed to be "gospels" of Jesus. However they taught that salvation came, not through faith in Christ, but by have a "special revelation" of vision of Christ (called a "gnostic" after the Greek word for "wisdom"). Similar to the American Indian's "vision quest" or other such mystic dreams.

The gospels appeared in the second century, well after the four accepted gospels and the other books of the NT had been written. If you read the writings of the early church leaders of that time, you will see mentioned of the different gospels as they appear (between 250 and 500AD). Each is condemned as a fraud at the time of their appearance.

The first church council was held around 325 AD, after the conversion of Emporer Constantine. Before that, any attempt at a council would have resulted in everyone attending being executed. The council weight the evidence, and choose the books that we have today in our New Testament.

They examined the "Bibles" already in use in churches across Europe and Asia. There are about 40 complied New Testaments that still survive today from before the time of the council. All 40 contain the same books we have in our NT today. (There are also nearly 2,300 other surviving manuscripts of individual books, or of smaller collections like the four gospels, or all the letters of Paul). Not a single one of the existing "bibles" of that time included any of the gnostic gospels.

The council also looked back at the writing of early church leaders to see what books they accepts as scripture. Thye found things such as Clements of Rome in 97 AD stated that there were four - and only four - gospels of Jesus. Or an early bishop around 125 AD who list most of the 27 books of our New Testament as accepted scripture, the rest of the 27 (the small letters of John, James and Jude) as commonly read in the churches, and listed several other books (not in the NT) as rejected.

Between examining what books were already in use as scripture, and what books were listed by early church leaders as true and false, the canon of the NT was formed. Of the 27 books, only 2 and 3 John had any serious debate. Being short letters addressed to individuals, they debated whether they had any real doctrine value. But in the end they included them. They also debated a book, similar to Revelation, called "The Apocylpse of Peter". But in the end rejected it because they could find no mention of it in any documents before 300AD, so they concluded that it was not written by Peter.

Any writings about Jesus that come from 250AD to about 600AD that are not included in the New Testament are often refered to as "gnostic" gospels.