Friday, September 24, 2010

God hides from us? - Absurd!

Gospel of Mary: Late 2nd century.
Gospel of Judas: Didn't have the time to write it before killing himself. Late in any case.
Gospel of Thomas: 4th century.
Shepherd of Hermas: Late 2nd century.
Gospel of Peter: Late 2nd century.
Gospel of Philip: Between 2nd and 4th century.
Most from Nag Hammadi; utterly out of line with the First Century Gospels; embracing heresy; though sometimes containing quotes from the NT.

These were consigned to the dustbin of history by Athanasius.

Those wetting themselves to undermine Christianity grab desperately onto these texts in the hope of causing mischief.
Ultimately, God chose which Gospels He wanted. Why would He possibly let people follow wrong courses?
The gnosticism of the Nag Hammadi discoveries is based on silly 'hidden messages', codes and secret understandings - just what God would do, huh?
The fundamental problem with this is that it closes down salvation to just a mere handful of people with an esoteric knowledge who happen to be well versed in 'doing cryptic crosswords'.
Those who meet the Living Lord cannot accept this load of gnostic donkey droppings and Anglican, heretic priests such as Peter Owen-Jones who look wide-eyed at this stuff really do need kicking out of the C of E!
(Satan is alive and well and doing spiritual damage to the terminally simple.)

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