Reading Time: 22 minutesIntroduction Where did the universe come from? If you’re reading this, you’ve probably thought about it, at least in part, or curious for some answers at least. Well you’re not alone in such an endeavour. Intellectuals and laymen alike had wrestled with the idea of an infinite past and the Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe 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 minuteThis 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 minuteFor 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 minute15th 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 minuteEnd 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 minutesDidache 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 minuteThis 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 minutesKaren 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 minuteThis 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…