The New Testament is a reliable historical record of Jesus and the early Christian church.

For purposes of our time and study, we will focus primarily on what these documents tell us about Jesus—we don’t have time to do more and honestly, if what they tell us about Jesus can’t be trusted, the rest really doesn’t matter.

To do that we will first establish the historical reliability of New Testament documents

Then we’ll look at New Testament non-canonical writings, particularly the Gnostic “gospels”

These documents are much more dangerous than OT Apocrypha which was not inspired scripture, but still talked about the same God—these documents present a distorted image of the Jesus of history, far from the real Jesus who is the only Savior.

Additional materials (including a complete copy of a PowerPoint presentation on this) and copies of some of the gnostic texts are on the Bible 805 website at: https://wp.me/pazrJD-2g