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Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden

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This was the first apochryphal bible I read. It was interesting and only made me want to read more and more and more. However out of all the special "bibles" , this one reminds me of Sunday Mass. Perhaps because it has a lot, dare I say majority, of catholic "inspired" texts. The first stories in this book are the infancy and birth of the "Virgin Mary". In this story it was supposedly written by James the brother of Jesus. However throughout the gospel they refer to her as "our lady" which dampered my quest for truths. Further on into the infancy narratives, they had much of the same: baby jesus a day old and talking or people coming in egypt to worship "Our Divine and Benevolent Mother" It became sickening after awhile and I had to put it down. I did not pick the book up again for a couple weeks. Much to my dismay there was more catholic tales. It wasnt until the latter portion of the book where it got interesting as they had some Jewish inspired texts. The moral of the story: great book to get you interested in this subject. However if you are looking for depth and variety of sources, check elsewhere. This is like a "beginners" book.

If you are researching Apocrypha, then there is no excuse not to buy this book. It contains the letters of Clement, Barnabus, and Ignatius; the Infancy Gospels of Mary & Jesus; 1&2 Adam+Eve; 2Enoch; the gorgeous Psalms & Odes of Solomon; Ahikar; Aristeas; 4Maccabees; and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs. While I would gladly argue that none of these texts are equal to the 66 of inspired Scripture, these books nonetheless are well-worth preserving and studying. BUY IT ALREADY!!!

excellent book - information found here you wont find in the scriptures - real eye opener!

The story of Adam and Eve makes one wonder if they weren't actually real people. This book answers many questions one has after reading the official biblical account.

This book helped give me a better understanding of the Lord. It explained to me interpretations that were not evident in the bible. I mean this they were probaly evident in the Bible however, I could not see them. This book helped explain and to my mind the (1) one thing was UNITY both with yourself and your family and the Holy Ghost.

This is a magpies' nest of documents the editors were too stupid to know how to evaluate. L B's of the B: all the books are garbage except Clement, Barbabus, Hermas and the Apostolic Fathers. Outdated translations from the 18th Century. F B's of Eden:Translations from the turn of the 20th Century by JR Harris and RH Charles. Mediocre stuff based on older sources, except the Odes and Psalms, and, to some extent, the Slavonic Enoch.These are worth reading, if you know what you're looking at, which most people don't. If you're not a scholar of the pseudepigrapha, skip this stuff and stick to the Bible, because you won't know how to evaluate this material. Rutherford Platt and J. Alden Brett were two of the stupidest editors ever to hit print, based on their editoral asides in this book.

These "books" were left out of the cannon for a reason; they are not actual, true books of the Bible. One example of how they conflict with scripture is the Book of Mary in "The Lost Books." The Book of Mary tells us that she was raised up special by her parents after being told she would be the mother of the Messiah. Historical fact tells us that her parents were not foretold that she would be the mother of the Messiah. In the Book of Luke in the real Bible, when the Angel Gabriel appears to announce to Mary that she is going to conceive by the power of the Holy Spirit it is obvious that she is very surprised and not expecting such a visitation or such an announcement. She even asks the angel how this can be so when she "knows not a man." This makes it very obvious that she did not have prior knowledge of being chosen by God to bear His Son. The books in "The Lost Books" are similar to the ideas and false inspirations behind the Divinci Code. Anyone can write anything contradictory, blasphemous, and untrue about biblical fact and history, but it doesn't change that fact and history, nor make it less true. These books were never "lost," they were left out of the cannon on purpose, because they did not qualify as the Word of God because they are not true books that were inspired by God through the person of the Holy Spirit as God's Word is. Man-inspired text and God-inspired text...huge world of difference.