Aren’t some of the books of the Bible purposely left out?

Question

Whats in the books? What was the church hiding?

Answer 1

Yes. And the ones that were left have been so mangled that its pointless.

Answer 2

Yes, there were books left out of the Bible. Constantine, emperor of Rome, got together with Christian faction leaders because the Christians were killing each other over their differences and distrupting order in the Roman Empire. So they had a conference and decided what was and what was not supposed to go in the bible. Since all of this happened sixteen or seventeen hundred years ago, those books have since been mostly lost. You might be interested in looking up topics like Gnostics, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Gospel of Jesus, the Gospel of Judas, The Gospel of Mary, the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, The Apocrypha, Constantine...you should find some of your answers there.

Edit: Also, Constantine was not a Christian at the point that this happened. So he pretty much just picked whatever sounded good.

Answer 3

Some books didn't make it into the official list called the canon. I don't think there was any deliberate attempt to hide anything. Books that were considered heretical were omitted and ones where there were doubts about authenticity.
The Jesus Seminar - a collection of scholars who study the historic Jesus looked at all the known writings about twenty years ago and concluded, I think, that the only ones that were not in the bible and worth studying were the Gospel of Thomas which is a collection of Jesus' sayings and what remains of the Gospel of Peter which contains an early description of the Crucifixion.

A collection of so-called gnostic gospels has been discovered but Gnosticism was considered a heresy very early in the life of the church.

J-Mick above is perpetuating a well known myth about Emperor Constantine and the Council at Nicea. The council was set up by Constantine who had already decided to make Christianity the official religion of the empire and he gave it the task of deciding what exactly Christians should believe, especially about Jesus. They came up with a version of the Creed, based on a creed from Jerusalem - it was later amended. He also gave the church the task of producing a number of written copies of the bible but this involved collecting together the best copies of books which were already in circulation. The Canon was determined earlier following the Marcion debates.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

The church wasn't hiding anything.
The writings that were purposely left out were fraudulent works that contained doctrinal errors.
There has been a huge interest in those so-called "lost" books of the Bible lately, and it's all being pushed on an unknowing population because publishers are making MONEY on them.
This action has created the rise of Gnosticism in our day, the very same heretical cult that the Apostles themselves wrote against, and fought against.

There was a man named Valentinus that ran a school, in which he encouraged his adherents to write down their poems and so called visions, often writing "in the spirit of.." one of the Apostles, or Mary.
So you can see how phony they were.
But, people today, falling for conspiracy theories, just want to believe there was some sort of devious cover-up by the Apostles, or the Early Church leaders.
This is so not the case. They were preserving the truth, and as we are supposed to do, expose the false.

Answer 6

There were many "books" floating around in the first several centuries of Christianity. Some of those were chosen and canonized while the rest were left out, and mostly destroyed. Different sections of the Christian faith recognize different sets of the books some include a few more and others a few less.

Answer 7

Yes they are called The Apocrypha.When the bible was put together at The Council of Nicea any books that showed Jesus as more human than a deity were left out.

Answer 8

Hundreds, if not thousands, of early Christian books were left out of the Bible. There are even references to some of them within the books that were included.

The modern Protestant Bible has removed several books from the original Catholic Bible because Martin Luther didn't like them.

Answer 9

Yes - the Gospel of Judas, the Gospel of Jesus...books of Moses.....
It's interesting that in the Gospel of Jesus, he is the one saying how we don't need to go to temples to worship, for he is in every rock and tree, etc....Not what the church wants you to hear, though.

Answer 10

You're correct. Some books are categorized as apocryphal in title, yet to be properly authenticated and /or canonized.