171 BBC Documentary about the making of the King James Bible (youtu.be) 🗣️ DISCUSSION 💬 posted 1 year ago by ChronicMetamorphosis 1 year ago by ChronicMetamorphosis +173 / -2 120 comments share 120 comments share save hide report block hide replies
https://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/index.htm
The Book of Enoch - https://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/boe/index.htm
Gnostic texts - https://www.sacred-texts.com/gno/index.htm
Enoch is cool but Gnostic texts are false gospels. They were the Mormons of their time.
Reducing the Gnostic tradition which spans several centuries into “its false because it’s contradicts my dogma” is pretty close minded.
Plenty of the Gnostic worldview can be rooted in the four gospels of the NT without needing the apocryphal texts.
It's false because it blatantly contradicts much of the teachings of Christ.
One literally needs to just read the average Gnostic text to see it's blatantly fabricated pseudoepigrapha for the purpose of propaganda.
Surface level meanings are easy to obscure, but the deeper you go the more it all converges on one ultimate meaning, which the NT and Gnostic texts both affirm without contradicting each other.