Have you never noticed in John' s letters the tendency to call out others for certain views?
Or in Acts is told the differences of opinion between Peter & John and Paul.
And even from Acts we learn there are those adhering to "The Way" being only cognizant of the baptism of John.
Is it so unimaginable there are Christians who are more gnostic? Compare the Gospel of John with Marc. You will see immediately the difference. Chapter 1 is gnostic as it comes.
However, a bunch of religious and political hustlers in 325AD in a place called Nicea decided on what should be in the bible as the orthodoxy. John' s Gospel nearly did not make it. Neither the Apocalypse (Revelation).
Jude makes mentioning of the book of Enoch. You will not find it in the Nicean Canon.
It can be beneficial to consider the place where Christians were first called such. Who was there? When? Circumstances? And why is his background relevant?
What is the contents of the Gospel of Thomas? Why was it hidden? Who benefited? Or who was not the wiser for it?
Early Christians .... you mean who?
Have you never noticed in John' s letters the tendency to call out others for certain views?
Or in Acts is told the differences of opinion between Peter & John and Paul.
And even from Acts we learn there are those adhering to "The Way" being only cognizant of the baptism of John.
Is it so unimaginable there are Christians who are more gnostic? Compare the Gospel of John with Marc. You will see immediately the difference. Chapter 1 is gnostic as it comes.
However, a bunch of religious and political hustlers in 325AD in a place called Nicea decided on what should be in the bible as the orthodoxy. John' s Gospel nearly did not make it. Neither the Apocalypse (Revelation).
Jude makes mentioning of the book of Enoch. You will not find it in the Nicean Canon.
It can be beneficial to consider the place where Christians were first called such. Who was there? When? Circumstances? And why is his background relevant?
What is the contents of the Gospel of Thomas? Why was it hidden? Who benefited? Or who was not the wiser for it?