Banned Bible book of Jesus secret prophecies to his brother unearthed
The secret advice and prophecies Jesus gave his brother, James. It’s bound to be explosive stuff.
But the two books of the Apocalypse of James were rejected when the Emperor Constantine instructed his bishops to standardize the ascendant Christian religion.
Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, presented the approved books of the New Testament to the world amid much fanfare — and controversy — in 367 AD.
He was touted as having been touched by God: “Athanasius is one who can be trusted: he would not say anything that is not in accord with sacred scripture.”
His judgment was inviolate.
“No one may add to them and nothing may be taken away from them,” he wrote.
The Apocalypse of James was not among them.
We mostly know them from writings found among a collection known as the Nag Hammadi library in December 1945.
These were large terracotta vessels, stuffed with 13 scrolls, many still safely sealed against the elements.
They were believed deliberately buried during the fourth century to protect them from destruction.
... earlier this year, University of Texas at Austin biblical scholars discovered a fragment lost among Egypt Exploration Society archives at Oxford University.
It was in Greek. It was part of the First Apocalypse of James.
“To say that we were excited once we realized what we’d found is an understatement,” says assistant professor of religious studies Geoffrey Smith. “We never suspected that Greek fragments of the First Apocalypse of James survived from antiquity. But there they were, right in front of us.”
Read more, including what Jesus told James, at:
https://nypost.com/2017/12/01/banned-bible-book-of-jesus-secret-prophecies-to-his-brother-unearthed/
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