Nag Hammadi did take it on itself to protect (and lose track of) a number of the alternative books, which very few others were able to do; yet this was not active suppression or rejection. (4) There were individuals who deprecated individual books in exactly the same way any opinion was raised against any book
Let me ask you a question. Do the Dead Sea Scrolls, or the Nag Hammadi texts, do they also include Matthew, Mark, Luke and John? the answer is No, the Nag Hammadi texts and the Dead Sea Scrolls do not contain the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The Nag Hammadi Library, consists of 52 ancient texts written in Coptic, including the Gospel of Thomas, but none of the canonical Gospels. The Dead Sea Scrolls, found in the caves of Qumran, contain biblical, sectarian, and apocryphal texts, but not the Gospels of the New Testament.
According to experts the Gospels are generally considered to have been written after the Epistles, with the following approximate dates: Mark around 66 AD, Matthew 80–90 AD, Luke 100 AD, John 96 AD. In contrast, the Epistles to the Corinthians and Galatians are believed to have been written earlier, 1 Corinthians around 50 AD, Galatians around 50 AD. So, Paul wrote his letters or if his letters were published or written down, before the Gospels, 20 to 50 years before Matthew, Mark, Luke or John. Why would the Gospel of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, which claim to be the first person eyewitness accounts of the actions and sayings of Jesus, why on earth would they have been written down 20 to 50 years after the letters attributed to Paul were written down?
Paul remember, he was Jewish also. His name was Saul and he was a heretic hunter. He hunted down followers of Christ and other heretics according to the Sadducee official narrative. What the Sadducees thought was orthodoxy. So he worked for the Sadducees and anybody who challenged the Sadducees orthodoxy, and the Sadducees controlled the temple. So, really the whole Christianity is Paul's work. And the Gospels were written after Paul. There's no explanation for that other than the fact that they were written, because Paul (actually Rome) had this idea, or he was working with a whole bunch of sects that existed at the time, which he was persecuting. And Saul (Romans), started what has now become known as Christianity.
Let me ask you a question. Do the Dead Sea Scrolls, or the Nag Hammadi texts, do they also include Matthew, Mark, Luke and John? the answer is No, the Nag Hammadi texts and the Dead Sea Scrolls do not contain the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The Nag Hammadi Library, consists of 52 ancient texts written in Coptic, including the Gospel of Thomas, but none of the canonical Gospels. The Dead Sea Scrolls, found in the caves of Qumran, contain biblical, sectarian, and apocryphal texts, but not the Gospels of the New Testament.
According to experts the Gospels are generally considered to have been written after the Epistles, with the following approximate dates: Mark around 66 AD, Matthew 80–90 AD, Luke 100 AD, John 96 AD. In contrast, the Epistles to the Corinthians and Galatians are believed to have been written earlier, 1 Corinthians around 50 AD, Galatians around 50 AD. So, Paul wrote his letters or if his letters were published or written down, before the Gospels, 20 to 50 years before Matthew, Mark, Luke or John. Why would the Gospel of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, which claim to be the first person eyewitness accounts of the actions and sayings of Jesus, why on earth would they have been written down 20 to 50 years after the letters attributed to Paul were written down?
Paul remember, he was Jewish also. His name was Saul and he was a heretic hunter. He hunted down followers of Christ and other heretics according to the Sadducee official narrative. What the Sadducees thought was orthodoxy. So he worked for the Sadducees and anybody who challenged the Sadducees orthodoxy, and the Sadducees controlled the temple. So, really the whole Christianity is Paul's work. And the Gospels were written after Paul. There's no explanation for that other than the fact that they were written, because Paul (actually Rome) had this idea, or he was working with a whole bunch of sects that existed at the time, which he was persecuting. And Saul (Romans), started what has now become known as Christianity.