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"There are some 30 plus gospels written, when the church chose their canon they went with the four because they contained ideas and perspectives in line with th
by jorangreef 12y ago
"There are some 30 plus gospels written, when the church chose their canon they went with the four because they contained ideas and perspectives in line with the church's message, manipulation through ommission"
I don't think that is historically accurate.
The reason that apocrypha such as the Gospel of Thomas were not included in the early church canon, is because the Gospel of Thomas was pseudonymous, Gnostic, likely written in Egypt, dated around the middle of the 2nd century, well after the eye-witnesses of the events had passed away.
The four gospels on the other hand were already in wide circulation in the early church by then.