In 325AD the Council of Nicea under Emperor Constantine had to decide on the layout of the Holy Christian Bible for the burgeoning new religion. What follows here is a list of the books left out of the Bible.
The Gospel of the Birth of Mary
The Protevangelion
The First Gospel of the Infancy of Jesus Christ
Thomas's Gospel of the Infancy of Jesus Christ
The Epistles of Jesus Christ and Abgarus King of Edessa
The Gospel of Nicodemus, Formerly Called the Acts of Pontius Pilate
The Apostles’ Creed
The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Laodiceans
The Epistles of Paul the Apostle to Seneca, with Seneca's to Paul
The Acts of Paul and Thecla
The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians
The Second Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians
The General Epistle of Barnabas
The Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians
The Epistle of Ignatius to the Magnesians
The Epistle of Ignatius to the Trallians
The Epistle of Ignatius to the Romans
The Epistle of Ignatius to the Philadelphians
The Epistle of Ignatius to the Smyrnæans
The Epistle of Ignatius to Polycarp
The Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians
The Shepherd of Hermas
The Second Book of Hermas, Called His Commands
The Third Book of Hermas, Which Is Called His Similitudes
Letters of Herod and Pilate
The Lost Gospel According to Peter
More information of each book mentioned here can be found at Sacred-texts.
5 comments:
Werner
The First Council of Nicea, 325 AD, had many interesting discussions and decided many things, some of the controversial even today. But they did not discuss the cannon of scripture of make a decision on it.
Books that came into the cannon a writing had to be
1) Of unquestioned Apostolic authorship or at least written on the authority of an Apostle
2) Generally read in church every where as scripture.
3) Generally in agreement with the teaching that had been received.
Though by the time of the Council there was not a published official list, most of the books of the current NT were read every where as scripture.. There were some read in certain regions only but the general agreement on which were in and out did not come until a seventy five or a hundred or so years later.
Many of the books on your list were quite well respected in the Early Church but every one knew the authors came after the Apostles (Epistles of Ignatius). Some were written earlier but not read in Church as Scripture,. (1 Clement). Some were In LaLa land, (The Lost Gospel According to Peter)
The NT Scripture was read in Church every Sunday, the same list (cannon from the Greek) was read on a rotating schedule, which varied locally, but the same list in each local church for over 225 or more more. The members knew what to expect and would have protested strongly at a change. We have accounts of bishops having major protests for something a simple as using a different translation.
The books in the NT are generally what has been read as scripture in Church for 1900 years or so.
I've read most of the books on that list many are very profitable and all are interesting in their own way. I would recommend starting with Ignatius.
Thanks for the input.
Did any of those you read cover Reincarnation?
Did any of those you read cover Reincarnation?
Specifily I do not remeber.
"Transmigration of souls" as it was called was loudly and repeatedly denoumced as contrary to to the faith.
The ideas was held by several other religions, but loudly rejected as incompatible with the faith.
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