Why were some parts of the bible banned and taken out?

Question

What were they trying to hide? Do you think that they revelations that christians will be shocked to know? Do you think that they contain revelations that will be hard for christians to swallow?

I heard that there is one part that says Mary of Magdelon was Jesus close friend and that he trusted in her more than the other disciples. She was known as the wiser one after Jesus.

Answer 1

Can people be any ditzier?

The Bible is a collection of books agreed upon by a group of scholars around 300BC. Anyone who has been to college has at least heard about defending a thesis and that is pretty much how the books of the Bible were chosen. The various books were defended like thesis. Those books that were accurate were accepted and those that were inaccurate were rejected.

Not everyone agreed so the most popular books that were not included in the Bible were assembled into another volume called the Apocrypha.

When another group of scholars got together they translated the Old testament, the New Testament and the Apocrypha into a volume called the KJV. Later someone figured out that the Apocrypha had not been in the original books of the Bible so it was removed from protestant versions of the KJV and kept in Catholic versions of the KJV.

There were a bunch of books, popular "dime novel" adaptations, kind of like "The Divinci Code". These were pretty much disregarded by anyone with an education and sometimes accepted by uneducated people.

Pretty simple and well documented process if you ask me.

Answer 2

Your question assumes parts were taken out. Please name the book(s) that was known to be part of the Bible and then was removed.

If you're referring to the gospel of Thomas -- it was written after the New Testament writings were completed and was never taken seriously. The books that are in the New Testament were completed within the lifetimes of the eyewitnesses. Those who wrote falsely or according to their own agendas were quickly identified as false by those who were there. All but one of the writings were by eyewitnesses. The Gospel of Luke is from research taken from the eyewitnesses when Luke was in Palestine for over two years. A similar situation would be if someone would write a biography of the mayor of your town and the locals after reading the bio saw the work as honest (whether positive or negative toward the mayor), then the bio would be taken seriously. If the bio did not fit what people knew and saw, people would quickly identify it as a fake, people would not take it seriously, and the bio would not be included in any school library. Patently false writings were easily identified and few bothered to copy them. The gospel of Thomas was NOT lost, it was ignored.

For the part of the Bible often called the "Old Testament", the writings belonging to the TaNaK were the ones that were stored in the temple. After the temple was destroyed, the books that belonged to the Scriptures were put on a list.

It's interesting to note that many of the writings are NOT complementary to the people who are said to have been the writers. If they wrote to make themselves look good or get power, they did an _unbelievably_ poor job of it!

Answer 3

when the bible was written and lets remember the bible was written by many different people over hundreds of years even after jesus had died, they often reflected a "new age" (for the time) ideal of what roles people played in "gods" world and what exactly was classified as a sin.

When the old testament was published women had very little in the way of things to do with religion commerce and or governemt, but as times changed the church revised the old testament and "cleaned it up a little" mainly to reflect the changing values of society so instead of war blood shed, famine, it was peace love and togetherness.

the bible is the only book which has been continually revised to include or remove parts to conform to societies theories, once the bible has become "obsolete" or "out of fashion, the church revises, and releases a newer more modern version with the same "basic" principles.

Unfortunately when the bible was first put together from all the "writings of the apostles" many of thier "new age" ideas were considered taboo, so the church decided to leave out certain parts or destroy parts that contradicted the main body in this case was "jesus is good and judas was evil" if there were scriptures saying the opposite "judas loved jesus but it was jesus who betrayed judas" these were destryed and never seen or spoken of again.

So the bible in which you read today is the bible that the church wants you to read, realistically this would have to be the biggest censorship experiment in history.

Answer 4

Mary Magdalene was in all likely hood Jesus's wife...many many people acknowledge this. In any case, she was (aside from his own mother) probably his most beloved and trusted disciple.

Many gospels were taken from the bible because they threatened the church. The Gospel of Thomas quoted earlier is not nearly so hateful as depicted here on Yahoo by an earlier contributer. That quote was taken out of context and/or misinterpreted. In fact, The Book of Thomas is very beautiful and is holds within in the everything that the Catholic church detests...acknowledgment that the church is not necessary to reach God.

Hmm. No kidding....

Answer 5

Why don't you honestly go direct to the Bible and read it honestly for yourself and not inventing things against the Bible where it never answers outside of what is already written 2000 years ago after the canon of the 66 books (49 OT and 27 NT) of the Bible was completed? You are just talking non-sense to those who are honest researcher, so they personally read, research what is really inside. The Bible said in 1 Timothy 2:15, "Study to show theyself approved unto God a workman that need not ashame rightrly dividing the Word of Truth". Good luck and be wise.

Answer 6

Christians tend to be gullible enough to believe some farfetched claims, although just being hard to swallow by itself doesn't mean something is false. In this case though it is common knowledge among most educated people that the Bible has undergone revisions and removed text---as many other religious texts have been also manipulated for the same reasons. Political power.

Answer 7

The "banned" books don't fit the doctrine of the Christian religions. They are every bit as valid as the accepted books and writings and deserve equal circulation. Then again, the Bible is just a book compiled of writings from various sources and not a guide for living. If it were, all the writings would be included, not just the parts that agree with the point one is trying to put across.

Answer 8

some parts of the bible were taken out by the church. this was done to hide some facts from the public and make it more modern. like original bible bans nudity, it says that mary magdalene was not a prostitute. yes christans will be shocked to know some facts. but this is because their minds are already brainwashed by the church. if the bible had not been edited, the christans would live with these facts.

Answer 9

Because many beliefs contradicted the objectives of the Roman Church, like that the Church of Jesus shouldn't be "a palace of Stone and Wood" (temples, administratively organised)

Or that women are equals of men. In one of the forbidden gospels, one of the apostoles wanted Mary to leave the room because she was just a woman and shouldn't talk when there were men around, Jesus said that she knew more about what they were talking about and if he wanted to leave, he wouldn't hold him.

One of the apocryphal gospel described more than twelve apostoles, that 1/3 of them were women, including Mary of Magdalena, and that she was Jesus' favorite follower.

Answer 10

banned or taken out? i just studied this in Church history at my school. in order to be in the bible(new testament), a book has ties with an apostle and is self-evidencing, they have a uniqueness to them and have unparalleling power upon the lives of men. When you read the Bible, you want the truth, right? well that's what banning was for. in order for a better answer, you need to give what you bleev about the Bible. i hope my ansrs help a little.