Up To 50 Books Were Left Out Of The Bible, Here's Why
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Only the Gospels of Mathew, Mark, Luke and John were intentionally selected to be included in the Bible for political reasons of unifying the Christian religions and government divisions. For nearly 2,000 years people believed there were only four books of the Gospel. Why? What was in the other Gospels that led them to be banned or destroyed?
In 1886 the book of Peter was unearthed in Egypt and others followed. In the 20th century they found the books of Thomas, Mary Magdalene, and Judas. These books explained a different story of Jesus of Nazareth and what followed his death. This suggests the existence of a secret history of forbidden scriptures. [Jews were involved no doubt]
In 1945 they unearthed a sealed clay jar with large collection of gospels that changed forever the history of Christianity. There were 52 separate texts with titles like The Acts of Peter, The Apocalypse of James and The Gospel of Thomas. These were literal lost Gospels that were buried after the Emperor Constantine's consolidation of power in 325 ad. These scriptures only existed as legends until now.
The most surprising of these was the Gospel of Thomas. There were many quotes from Jesus and a lot of the contents are also found in the New Testament. The difference is the Gospel of Thomas is a gnostic Gospel (superior knowledge of spiritual matters), and differed from the emerging Christian hierarchy. If people had this knowledge for themselves, they wouldn't need the priests or bishops and could march to the beat of their own drums.
The Gospel of Thomas says, "When you know yourselves, then it will be known that you will understand that you are children of the living Father". In other words, if Jesus can be taken as a child of God, so are all of us sons and daughters of God. He doesn't have anything that we can't have, we can have the same type of relationship with the divine, the same kind of oneness with God. The Gospel of Thomas calls for a personal connection with God, without the need for organized churches, priests and bishops.
This did not sit well with the authority figures in the Churches, since big money is involved in the politics of churches. A lot of the priests and bishops took offense to these gnostics because they had their own ways; their lie of having their own direct (red telephone line) communication to God so people needed their guidance. This may be the reason the Gospel of Thomas was considered heresy, any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs.
The Gnostics believed their texts were just as valid, if not more so, than that of Mathew, Mark, Luke and John chosen by the Church Hierarchies. In the case of Thomas, they may have been right since it seems to be considerably older than the traditional four books dating back to the beginning of the church itself. If it is older, it could mean that it was written closer in time to the actual words of Christ. This suggests that the Bible is biased for organized religion and was intentionally written incomplete…