The Infancy Gospels of Jesus

[Duke]

I understand what you are saying now and yes im sorry ... your right as far as the apocrypha being pre new testament but the magestirum of the catholic church consideres them part of the full canon.

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[RAMCLAP]

You are correct. They do.

[billvau]

around the 1600's is when the emergence of the protestant bible was introduced by the reformers who revised the original texts from the catholic
church -- they broke away from the authority of the catholic church. the protestant bible is missing books -- i would suggest grabbing a catholic bible
and comparing it to the books that your protestant bible doesn't have. There are a lot of great things to learn. a big one is purgatory in 2 maccabees

RAMCLAP answered correctly. I only called it the "Protestant Bible" because of the competing RCC Bible. We just call it "The Bible" and most people forget that the vast majority of the Bible was settled on at the time of Jesus! It's called the Old Testament, the Hebrew Bible. Paul knew his writings were authoritative (1 Cor. 14:37) and the letters from him and the other authors of the NT circulated quickly. Did you know that right after the turn of the first century that the books of the NT were known and the list written down?

We, so often, just look at this from man's perspective. The Holy Spirit has been working through history to ensure that what we have is what He wants us to have! True Christians knew the inspired texts in their day because they were either written by an Apostle of Christ or a close disciple of an Apostle. BUT, even then, Christians knew that not all of their letters were inspired. We know from the Corinthian letters that Paul wrote at least two other letters to them. But, the Holy Spirit never intended them to be inspired and part of the Canon. The Holy Spirit has done His work and we have the Bible He intended.

The story of the Canon of Scripture is fascinating because it is the story of how the Holy Spirit worked through men to bring us the Bible. To a Christian today, it is easy to pick up a book and quickly KNOW that it is not inspired. This is because the Holy Spirit works in us, even now, to "illumine" us in the truth, and protect us from error.

Have a blessed Sunday!
Bill

[Not a Cook]

I saw a reference to this in another reading and found it quite interesting.

Not much is known about Jesus in his early years (before 12) but this record gives us some stories about the young Jesus and some of his early miracles, including raising the dead.

Here is a link to what I read:

http://gnosis.org/library/inftoma.htm

Thoughts?

Thoughts regarding "The Infancy Gospel of Thomas": it was NOT written by Thomas, it does NOT contain the gospel of Christ, and it is NOT part of the Scriptures. No reason to read it; but a lot of reasons to NOT read it.

Absolute BEST-case scenario: it MAY contain some sayings of Christ with a lot of "lies and junk"; most LIKELY-scenario: it's nothing but a book of lies that misleads people about Who Christ really is and what He's actually like.

[glilon]

Extra historical writings, either OT or NT, can at best be considered fokelore, and discerning between fact and fiction is as difficult as separrating the pepper from the fly poop. It's best to leave it alone,IMO.