![]() ![]() Another uses the voice of a female spirit. One tells the story of the Garden of Eden from the snake’s point of view. Some of the early texts were quite bizarre. “The Secret Book of John” claims that Adam and Eve received their divine spirit from a true God while the Old testament God hid the truth from mankind. The “Second Discourse of the Great Seth” declares that the true Christ was never crucified. Others were carefully scrutinized by Christian scholars and rejected for one reason or another, in many cases because the doctrines they promoted were regarded as threatening or heretical. They include “The Gospel of Peter”, “Origins of the World”, “Gospel of Mary (Magdalene)”, “Acts of John”, “Homilies of Truth” and “The Gospel of Truth”. There were dozens, probably hundreds, of religious texts circulating around at the time the Gospels were written and coming into common usage in the early centuries after the death of Christ. ![]() ![]() Satellite view of Nag Hammadi, source of the Nag Hammadi texts ![]()
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