Category: From the book

These essays are adapted from Questions and Misconceptions about the Bible (WestBow Press, 2026). Each one takes up a question readers often ask — or an idea they think the Bible settles — and reads the texts more closely.

Has the Church Hidden Other Gospels Besides the Four We Know?

Scribe of the early Christian era copying a manuscript by hand

Why the apocryphal writings were not included in the New Testament canon In the New Testament, twenty-seven writings eventually came to form the canon of Christian Scripture. However, there are other writings that did not make it into the canon. These are called apocryphal texts, a term that in common usage means unauthentic or suspect, but which comes from the… Read More Has the Church Hidden Other Gospels Besides the Four We Know?

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