Has anyone ever heard of "Q" being a missing part of the Bible, specifically the lost Gospel of Q?
Many people don't realize that the Bible we read today is not the original version. For example, the "King James version" was actually edited by King James, hence the name. Many things were taken out because King James didn't want his people reading or hearing them.
I came across the Paul Wallis channel on YouTube the other day and watched the 5-part series of "Jesus in India," which covered the years of Jesus' life that are missing from the Bible. Part 2 of the series is titled "Jesus in India, Pt 2, Thomas, Q & Jesus before Christianity." You can find it on YouTube or paulwallis.com.
Just wondering if anyone else has heard of this.
Add: James didn't take out anything to my knowledge; he left in all the apocrypha and many questioned passages. In the late 1800s many people took many things out of the original KJV.
Nobody has a perfect copy of the original version, or any component scroll of it, and that's deliberate on God's part. The point is that the Word is holistic enough that our fallible copies are sufficient to convey its message. If a perfect copy continued to exist too long we'd be tempted to idolize the parchment as a Nehushtan.
Since no ancient physical Q document exists, the Q construction merely recapitulates the Thomas pseudepigraph and other data. Did Jesus go to India? Perhaps, but if so it wasn't necessary for the world to know so it wasn't put in the eternal Word. Did Jesus tell a parable about an assassin? Perhaps, but it wasn't necessary to know. But what we have is sufficient. To denigrate the inspired canon and to supplant it with merely human imaginative texts is to commit two errors at once.