Christians?

"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires,

and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths."

II Timothy 4:3,4

Agree with its-not. These books are not part of the Bible. In fact in Revelation (last book of the Bible), Jesus warns not to add or subtract to the Holy Word of The Bible. You do what you want and listen to satan the deceiver, liar who uses scripture that he twists and adds or subtracts to. As for me and my spirit, I will follow and obey my Lord God/Jesus who is all knowing and all loving. Can't get any better than that! God bless.

It does not change my views at all... My reasoning is simple. I do not take the Bible 100% literally. The Bible is a guide for us to lead a better life... It is not designed to be looked at literally. 3 people could read the same passage, and 3 different messages could be drawn from that same passage. It sounds to me like you are trying hard to disprove God and Christianity. You need to try a little bit harder. Much of the Old testament is merely stories passed on throughout the generations by word of mouth... Ever play telephone?

I have enough to concentrate on and learn in the cannonized Bible. The contents of those otther books has little relivance to my faith and just cause contention. Maybe when I have mastered all the concepts of the cannonized Bible I'll take a look at them, but I have along way to go so...

lol.. you're referring to books that are not part of the bible. do you know the history of the apocrypha? those were written looooooong time after jesus' death, like 400 AD-- they are false teachings... just like the book of judas or book of mary magdalene. because of the nature of oral tradition (imagine a gossip going on for 400 yrs), and many cults wanting to take advantage of Christianity to gather people for their own purposes, they tried to twist the context of the bible books. meantime, the books included in the Bible include only those that were written about 100AD and before that. much to your surprise, the real books of the bible have only one focus-- the real LORD.

you have to know what you're asking us, because we sure know how to answer you.

Answers for the Asker's followup questions:

** I know it’s false teachings because most of the writers are Gnostics, who do not believe in the same God that Christians do. Please feel free to google their beliefs.… they acknowledge the snake not as a villain in the Fall of Man, and think that they can be gods themselves.

** why would you need the dates to ALL BOOKS? i'm sure you can google them up yourself, that is, if you really WANT to know. as for its history, welcome yourself to the religiously-neutral world of wikipedia.

** oh and by the way, national geographic has some documentary on this. if you haven't seen "the gospel according to judas", you missed the history of the canonized bible. even national geographic know its history.

** anyone can say they have referenced mr. so and so, but like I told you, you can’t really rely on something passed orally for 400 yrs. Writers were not Jesus’ disciple or Jesus’ disciples’ disciple anymore.

While I don't know all of the details of the apochrypha, I do know that they were not included in the Canon because they didn't agree with the spirit of the books that are included in the Canon.

whoa.

a true biblical scholar.

i'm not impressed

the Bible is the Bible.

What's not in the Bible is not the Bible.

Let's include the DaVinci code too?

that's in English, love, and thus edited for content.

Jews and Muslims learn their holy books in their original languages. I guess Christians are just the underachievers of the family.

Most don't believe the sacred texts are authentic!

this stuff is fascinating. Thanks for the link!

(no- you haven't converted anyone- I'm already an atheist, but I love this ancient theological stuff)