Reading Time: 3 minutes The Gospel of Thomas is what’s known as an Infancy supplement. These texts assume Christ’s deity meant that he emerged form the womb as if he were an adult able to hold conversations ands speak within months/weeks, sharing gifts of wisdom. These ideas emerged from Gnostic circles and some non Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute This letter is attributed to Clement of Alexandria (150-215AD) with some dating the letter 100-205AD. Despite this, the current manuscript we have is heavily attacked as a forgery by many scholars. There are no manuscripts for this and is a quote by Clement referencing a Gospel about a heretic named Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute For this document we have three incomplete Greek texts, one complete Latin, an Ethiopian text and a bunch of other fragments with a quote also by Clement of Alexandria. If the author is the brother of Pius (as the Muratorian Canon states), then this would date the letter to the Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute 15th century Muslim forgery is the opinion of scholars Jesus portrayed merely as a prophet not the Messiah Quran says Jesus is the Messiah and contradicts this Reasons for rejection/non-inclusion It’s more than 1,000 years too late Muslims would’ve used this prior to the 15th century to make their case Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute End of third century Unknown author Comprised of 20 verses The letter is said to be written by someone in prison, possibly trying to “imitate Paul”? Or just someone genuinely in prison Reasons for rejection/non-inclusion Jerome reports that everyone rejected this letter Considered spurious Patchwork of phrases put together plagiarising Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Didache means “teaching”, the full name of this document being “The Lord’s Teaching through the Twelve Apostles to the Nations.” Historians are given the impression that this document acted as a manual for new believers, something Christians do often today, a summary fo teachings. We have only one complete Greek Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute This document (Estimated 70 – 132AD) is considered one of the Apostolic fathers documents and it is largely Orthodox in its views, that is, it has evangelical doctrine to it. But nobody thought it was written by Barnabas. The Muratorian Canon tells us it is a good book to read Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Karen King, the Gnostic scholar who published the manuscript, has titled it the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife. It is a very small fragment, only 12 partial lines, of an ancient Gnostic book. The Coptic written fragment is dated 4th century but it seen as a copy of an older book. Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute This document dating in the 5th century (400-480AD) Follows narratives like the infancy Gospels of Thomas and James to fill in the gaps we don’t know about Jesus but people would like to presume. This work is written as a message from Jesus where he talks about his stepfather. The Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute This Gnostic text was discovered in all places at a museum! There’s only a fragment of it and it’s generally dated between 4th – 7th century with it assumed to have been written second century (120-180AD). It is a series of “sayings” like the Gospel of Thomas. Reasons for rejection/non-inclusion Read more…