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I think there are many writings that were revered by the early Christians but did not make it in the official NT canon. The Shepherd of Hermas is one example. It's a great question, nonetheless. I also assume many early writings were also destroyed, but would have had some spiritual benefit. Other Gnostic/Heretical writings were preserved but did not contain orthodox Christian teaching.We reject critical scholars' assertions that the historical Daniel didn't write Daniel and their multiple authorship schemes of "Second" and "Third Isaiah," but why do we accept their assertions that anything resembling Jesus or Christianity in the Pseudepigrapha must be a Christian interpolation?
These texts were preserved (largely) by monastic communities for Christians. The question arises: Why would they be preserved if they were forgeries or had been adulterated with interpolations? Saying "they didn't know," is insulting their intelligence; saying "they preserved them anyway" accepts the secularists' narrative about the apostles' devotion to the Gospel: they knew it was false, yet they persevered and died for it. Unlikely!
Orthodox Christian priest Father Stephen De Young was not speaking of Christian interpolations in the Pseudepigrapha, but his words still apply: "[W]e’re at a state now where a lot of our Christian friends will believe everything pagans write about ancient history, but nothing that Christians write about ancient history outside of the Bible. . . . So the pagans are all telling the truth and the Christians are all liars doesn’t make a lot of sense as the Christian perspective on historical trustworthiness."
....I reckon that's what's been on my mind these past many months.
Indeed. Some material from the Psalms of Solomon seem prophetic of Christ (and iirc predates Christ), but is normally dismissed as "obviously later Christian additions." Definitely a vast majority of the literature is suspect for one reason or another, such as the Nag Hammadi library you mentioned.I think there are many writings that were revered by the early Christians but did not make it in the official NT canon. The Shepherd of Hermas is one example. It's a great question, nonetheless. I also assume many early writings were also destroyed, but would have had some spiritual benefit. Other Gnostic/Heretical writings were preserved but did not contain orthodox Christian teaching.
I think there is some truth in the rejected Gospels. Which one is the Sayings Gospel? Thomas? I could easily see Christ saying a lot of those sayings that aren't found in the Gospels.We reject critical scholars' assertions that the historical Daniel didn't write Daniel and their multiple authorship schemes of "Second" and "Third Isaiah," but why do we accept their assertions that anything resembling Jesus or Christianity in the Pseudepigrapha must be a Christian interpolation?
These texts were preserved (largely) by monastic communities for Christians. The question arises: Why would they be preserved if they were forgeries or had been adulterated with interpolations? Saying "they didn't know," is insulting their intelligence; saying "they preserved them anyway" accepts the secularists' narrative about the apostles' devotion to the Gospel: they knew it was false, yet they persevered and died for it. Unlikely!
Orthodox Christian priest Father Stephen De Young was not speaking of Christian interpolations in the Pseudepigrapha, but his words still apply: "[W]e’re at a state now where a lot of our Christian friends will believe everything pagans write about ancient history, but nothing that Christians write about ancient history outside of the Bible. . . . So the pagans are all telling the truth and the Christians are all liars doesn’t make a lot of sense as the Christian perspective on historical trustworthiness."
....I reckon that's what's been on my mind these past many months.
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