8 июн. 2022 г. · I've read a handful of the Apocryphal books, and I have mixed feelings. Some of them I quite enjoy and find them edifying while others I find somewhat ...

7 апр. 2020 г. · Those were pagan/Gnostic writings, they were never Christian in the first place. Scripture has been closed following the Third Council of Carthage in 397 AD.

29 мар. 2020 г. · The Apocrypha, therefore, is not really a practical useful source for non-academic readers to understand the teachings of Jesus. The ...

1 февр. 2016 г. · Another element of this is that most of the Apocrypha are qualitatively different. Many of the texts currently called 'Gospels', i.e. of Peter, ...

15 июл. 2024 г. · The only books that were removed from the Bible were the three missing in the Catholic Bible and the seven more that are missing in the Protestant Bible.

29 июн. 2023 г. · The Apostolic Fathers are the earliest Christian writings that we have and I feel that they are very helpful to understanding the apostles teaching.

30 сент. 2015 г. · The Acts of Peter and Paul would be my favorite. I find the idea of a miracle contest between Peter and Simon Magus with Nero as the judge to be really ...

7 сент. 2009 г. · The apocryphal books don't add anything more to the bible, in terms of serious teaching, and in some cases may be forgeries and cause 'untruths' ...

14 окт. 2023 г. · No but they are recognized as useful for instruction. Until the council of Trent they were not unanimously recognized as inspired scripture.

31 янв. 2023 г. · I'm considering either The Apocryphal New Testament by JK Elliot, Craig Evan's Early New Testament Apocrypha or Schneemelcher's New Testament Apocrypha.