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Who Chose the Books of the New Testament?

Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman

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Is the Gospel Taken to the Realm of the Dead?

An early church father who approved of it, a proto-orthodox church father named Swarapion. He told his churches that it's okay to use this around the year 200. But then somebody told him, someone else would actually read it and said, you know, it has a heretical view of Jesus. This gospel had been used by people who claimed that Jesus was so divine that he wasn't really a human being. So they said, it can't be written by Peter then, and if it can'tbe written by Peter, it's because it doesn't blow.

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