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Thank You for posting this article, and a Blessed Christmas to you.

The Nag Hammadi Gnostic “Gospels” have been all over the TV this Christmas Season, on the History Channel, TLC, NetGeo, Biography, etc, and the Media seems to want to perpetuate the notion that, not only were the Gospels written Centuries after Christ, but that the Four were chosen to exclude “Other Gospels” that had secret knowledge and were much more revealing than Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

Of course, honest scholarship shows that the Four Gospels were in use many years before the Council of Nicea, and their acceptance by the Christian Community goes way back.

My question to these “scholars” who place a late date on the Gospels is this:

If the Four Gospels were written centuries after Jesus, why was not the most TRAUMATIC event in the History of the Jewish People not even mentioned? That event, is of course, the Total Destruction of Jerusalem, The Temple, and Dispersion of the Jewish People. Jesus does allude to this very briefly and obliquely, as a prophecy of something that has yet to occur. If the fulfillment of the prophecy HAD taken place before the Gospels were composed, would not the author say “See? I told you so!”? That would infer that at least a rough outline of these Inspired works existed before 70AD.

It Would be as though a History of 21st Century New York was written but forgot to mention 9/11.

I am not a Scholar, but I read several chapters of the Bible every day, and conduct a daily prayer thread on FR. And I have total confidence that the Gospels that are in Our Bible are REAL.