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Why did the first Catholics ignore many books written by Jesus' disciples thus making the Bible incomplete?
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∙ 13y ago
There were many gospels and 'Acts' written over time, but most of them were written by Gnostic Christians and were too different from the teachings of the branch of Christanity that came to dominate in the later part of the second century, and therefore had the privilege of defining the New Testament. The four gospels we now know were the four that most closely matched its teachings. The influential early Church Father, Irenaeus stated that there must be four and only four gospels, just as there are four corners of the earth, and supported the inclusion in the New Testament of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
None of these books was really written by disciples of Jesus, although they bore the names of various apostles. Ian Wilson (Jesus: The Evidence) says that it can come as quite a shock to discover that no one can even be sure who wrote the four gospels in the New Testament. Despite the versions printed in our Bibles long having borne the names Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, these names are mere attributions and they are most unlikely to have been the real authors.
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