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How we got the New Testament, Part 2—why the Gnostic Gospels aren’t part of it & implications for today

2022-10-13 by bible805

Why the Gnostic Gospels are not part of the New TestamentA primary criticism of the New Testament is that critics say that Christians intentionally left out and/or suppressed certain writings, primarily what we call the Gnostic Gospels and that they should be part of our New Testament and aren’t.

It isn’t just scholars who are affected by these views. Consider this quote:

“It seems to me that the only true Christians were the Gnostics, who believed in self-knowledge, i.e. becoming Christ themselves, reaching the Christ within, the light is the truth. Turn on the light.”

That was the opinion of John Lennon of the Beatles and this idea, along with many other New Age and alternate ideas about spiritual truth have caused many to doubt the solid foundation of our New Testament, which is the ONLY source that truly tells us both how to be saved by faith in Jesus AND how to live our lives after we accept Him as Savior in ways that are pleasing to Him.

But there are alternative voices, and ways to be saved and live a “spiritual” life. These ideas have been the inspiration of books and movies that promote the idea that you need to discover the “god within you” (without Jesus) and the Gnostic Gospels are the origin of where much of this comes from.

This lesson looks at a textual analysis of where they came from and why in every way they are not equal to the Gospels in our Bibles.

Included in the lesson are excerpts from them that will help you see how they have little in common with the true Gospels.

Below are links to the podcast, video, downloadable chart, and eBook mentioned in the lesson, plus a transcript/notes following them.

Chart Comparing NT & Gnostic Gospels ImagePDF eBook Excerpts of the Gospel of John and Gnostic Gospels

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