What are the lost books of the Bible?

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What are the lost books of the Bible? We're going to answer that question.

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There are no lost books, books that were taken out or books missing from the

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Bible. Every book that God intended to be in the Bible is included. There are many legends and rumors of lost books of the

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Bible, but they were not in fact lost. Rather, they were rejected. There are literally hundreds of religious books that were written in the same time period as the

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Bible. Some of these books contain true accounts of things that actually occurred. Others contain some good spiritual teaching.

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However, these books are not inspired by God. If we read any of these books, we have to treat them as fallible religious and historical books, not as the inspired, inerrant

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Word of God. The Gospel of Thomas, for example, was a forgery written in 300 or 400

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AD, claiming to have been written by the Apostle Thomas. Clearly impossible.

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The early Christians almost universally rejected the Gospel of Thomas as heretical.

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It contains many false and heretical things that Jesus supposedly said and did.

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None of it is true. The Gospel of Barnabas was written by an imposter. The same can be said of the

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Gospel of Philip, the Apocalypse of Peter, etc. All of these books, and the many others like them, are pseudepigraphal, essentially meaning ascribed to a false author.

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There is one God. The Bible has one creator. It is one book. It has one plan of grace recorded from initiation through execution to consummation.

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From predestination to glorification, the Bible is the story of God redeeming His chosen people for the praise of His glory.

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The Scripture's recurring themes constantly emphasized are the character of God, the judgment for sin, the blessing for faith, the

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Lord and Savior and His sacrifice for sin, and the coming kingdom and glory. It is

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God's intention that we know and understand these themes because our lives and eternal destinies depend upon them.

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It is therefore unthinkable that God would allow some of this vital information to be lost in any way.

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The Bible is complete in order that we who read and understand it might also be complete and equipped for every good work.

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