It has been awhile since I have written in here, I have been doing lots of reading among other things. I have been reading a book called the Lost Christianities; it's about different books that for whatever reason didn't make it into the Canon. It makes one wonder how they pick and chose the scriptures that they put in. There are books that were written by apostles that never got in Mary Mother of Jesus, and Mary Magdalene. I know some they have believed to be frauds written by someone other than the people that signed it. But they also have evidence that some of the books that are in the Bible now are not authentic, but were mainly put in because of their content.
Supposedly there are 55+ books that didn't get in, does that really make these books less important because man decided not to have them included? Mark for instance is supposedly a condensed version of two other Marks that have been lost over time. The one Mark was the main book and the other Mark was for more spiritual or advanced Christians. I just find this stuff extremely interesting. Another thing I have found is that Paul went out of the other disciples teaching and taught that new Christians didn't have to become Jew to convert to Christianity. He started teaching that the only requirement was to believe that Jesus died for our sins, that He rose again and that He is the Son of God. He said that there were no bindings to the old Jewish laws that had to be kept. He even believed that it was Ok for new Christians to keep their Pagan ways as long as they followed the things that he said were important. If you take a look at Christians in say
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