The Early Christian Writers site includes most of the New Testament Apocrypha (pseudegriphal works that Eusebius would have called "really spurious") and the works of the men who came to be called the Apostolic Fathers (books accepted by the church as orthodox in doctrince, though not authoritative).
Please choose either one of the Apocryphal books or the Apostolic Fathers (the first nine on the link here). What is your evaluation of this book? Is it a book to die for? Does it seem to you useful and/or interesting? Or is it a book you wouldn't mind seeing burned by government officials? Why?
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If you have fallen behind on the blogs, you may do multiple entries for extra credit here.
I really feel that the Gospel of Thomas is a book that could be useful. It feels like it has a number of parables and saying that were referenced in other book that were in the Bible I don't really see any reason why this gospel couldn't be in the Bible
ReplyDeleteThe Gospel of Peter seems to line up pretty good with the Bible as well. I especially seems to cover the certification really well there was nothing that really seemed off to me and seemed fairly accurate.
ReplyDeleteThe secret book of James just doesn't seem quite right. its got pieces missing for one thing which in my opinion is enough reason keep this book out of the bible. Not only that but its questionable that God and the disciples would keep such secrets from each other I would think that if this was really important then this book wouldn't be kept a secret.
ReplyDeleteThe secret book of Mark was interesting in my opinion. I think that it had a lot of key information, but was different with a few added parts to the story. For instance some of it seemed to be borrowed from John.
ReplyDeleteThe Gospel of Thomas seems like it could be a useful book but it seems like there are a lot of things in the book that are already stated in other books as well. Because it seems like those things are from other books I don't think I would try too hard to protect it from something bad happening to it.
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I decided to look at the Gospel of Mary. I am not sure how "true" this book may be, but there are many verses that sound familiar. The Gospel of Mary 4:32, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear." This is very close to Matthew 13:9-16. The Gospel of Mary 4:36 says, "Those who seek Him will find Him." that is very close to Matthew 7:7. SO while I have never heard of the Gospel of Mary and do understand why it is not a part of the canon, I do understand why some people may look at it like an authoritative book.
ReplyDeleteThe Gospel of Mary also had some stuff that sounded familiar, like I'd heard it before. Because of this it may not be too useful. I did think it was interesting though. I found the part at the end when even the people in it that were hearing Mary's account were questioning whether or not they should believe what they were hearing.
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