2007-11-02 09:04:47 · 7 answers · asked by Buffy 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Here’s the best site you can hope to find containing just about all of the early Christian writings . . . .
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/
There are stories about Jesus in other writings, that aren’t in the Bible. Modern Biblical scholars agree that some of these stories are probably true, accurate events from the life of the Christ.
Just because something’s not in the Bible, doesn’t mean it’s not from God – Blood transfusions, for example.
Why were some books not included? People have disagreed about the story of Christ since WHILE it was happening – why the four Gospels tell different aspects of the same story, for example. Paul and Jesus' followers disagreed from the middle of Acts, through the end of their lives. So disagreements over what Jesus said and didn’t say is expected.
The Bible is 66 books. How many should people have carted around with them? 60? 77? The Book of Esther nearly didn’t make the cut, and the letter of Barnabus nearly did.
In addition to the codified Bible, there was a “recommended reading list,” of the book that weren’t included.
Jews for 3,000 years have compiled a commentary of the OT books, also not in the Bible, but OF the Bible, if that makes sense.
Why weren’t other books included? Here’s what the author of the Gospel of John said.
John 24: This is the disciple who is testifying to these things and has written them, and we know that his testimony is true. 25But there are also many other things that Jesus did; if every one of them were written down, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.”
There just wasn't enough room to include all of them.
Godspeed.
2007-11-02 09:12:55 · answer #1 · answered by jimmeisnerjr 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
What "books" are you referring? If it is the apocrypha, they were never considered inspired, never part of the Septuagint or the Jewish "Bible", and added later to the RCC Bible. If you are talking about the Gnostic books (gospel of Thomas, gospel of Judas, etc..) they were written many years after the canon was discovered, never considered inspired by the Church fathers, and often contradict the inspired text.
2007-11-02 09:14:32 · answer #2 · answered by BrotherMichael 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some were found in the 1940's
Look up the book of Thomas or the Dead Sea Scrolls
2007-11-02 09:09:04 · answer #3 · answered by docC 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
personally i dont think there are any books that weren't put in the Bible that should've been
2007-11-02 09:22:26 · answer #4 · answered by sdavid5523 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
They're still around and you can read them in any library. The collection is called the "Apocrypha."
2007-11-02 09:08:46 · answer #5 · answered by Elaine P...is for Poetry 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Hidden by the Vatican.
2007-11-02 09:12:31 · answer #6 · answered by Imagine No Religion 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The vatican burned them.
2007-11-02 09:07:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋