BL>   There are *four* gospels, or don't you even know that
BL> much?

NP> Ahem ..... Now Five gospels since the discovery of the
NP> Gospel of Thomas in the Nag Hammaddi (sp) texts

 > What about Timothy?

 NP> Didn't know about a Gospel of Timothy.
 NP> Only the letters of Paul to Timothy in the King James 
 NP> bible.

Timothy is hotly disputed. I've heard its more political (& Jewish)
than the others. I've seen a few quotes here and there.


NP> No doubt some of the more fundamentalist religions will
NP> still say there is only four, but the fifth has been 
NP> tested and has been found to be genuine. It doesn't tell 
NP> a story as such.

 > I've seen references to 7 Gospels, I think in an article 
 > talking about early heresies...

 NP> That would figure. There is agospel of Stephen that is way 
 NP> off the mainstream and full of Gnostic ideas.  (heresies)

That would complete the set. Actually some of the completely fake ones like
Magdelena are fun. A mate had a book with that one in at years back -- it
was one of the ones that claim JCs family left the Holy Land for the
British Isles (or somewhere like that :-)

NP> It does make an interesting read as some of the writings
NP> are _nearly_ the same as in the other gospels, but some
NP> others are unique and espouse ideas that the 
NP> mainsteamers would probably not agree with.

 > Which is probably why it was dropped...

 NP> I think that they didn't know of it's existence when the 
 NP> bible was put together.

I wonder if anyone has put the various documents about the Council of Nicea
(I think that's it) in e-text format... I wish they had taken and preserved
minutes, they would have been riotous (in botyh senses)...

...Alex.
(Pagan & Proud)

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