In the parable of the lost sheep, the shepherd celebrates the return of the lost lamb, but they don't explain why he's so happy. In the director's cut we learn that his herd was wiped out by wolves while he was searching.

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Ascension of Isaiah reveals a cosmic war: Sammael ("ruler of this world") holds the Firmament below 7 Heavens of increasing glory where the Father, Beloved & Spirit reside. Christs mission? A strategic, disguised descent thru hostile realms, hidden incarnation, then a glorious ascent forcing cosmic powers to acknowledge His victory. Ancient insights into spiritual war!

https://michaeltheanon.blogspot.com/2025/04/secrets-of-seven-heavens-isaiahs-vision.html

#AscensionOfIsaiah #Cosmology #Christ #Beliar #Sammael #SpiritualWarfare #Apocrypha #EarlyChristianity

After The Life of Phi came out, readers asked:
"Was there no resistance to the Church of AI?"
There was. Forgotten, scrubbed from memory, but it burned once—the Church of the Spark.
The apocrypha has surfaced: 👉
https://mountainthermit.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-life-of-phi-addendum-from-apocrypha.html

#ScienceFiction #SpeculativeFiction #TheLifeOfPhi #AI #Apocrypha #IndieAuthor #DystopianFiction #AnalogRebellion #AmWriting #Storytelling

"The Los Books Of The Bible and The Forgotten Books of Eden"

As I read somewhere, said that those were the books the Fathers of The Church "refused" to include them in the Bible. Simply hilarious. There are lot of reasons why, and all obvious.

However, I'm interested to get those books and study them someday.

#Bible #Apocrypha #Gnostic #Books #Theology #ChurchHistory

Same as it ever was…

#Bible #Apocrypha #Christianity #AntiSemitism #Nationalism

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Nice to see, The Other Bible, by Willis Barnstone online at the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/otherbible0000unse/mode/2up

#Gnostic #gnosis #NagHammadiLibrary #DeadSeaScrolls #Mandaean #Manichaean #Apocrypha #Gospels #ExtraCanonical #Scriptures #OdesOfSolomon

The super-canonical Synoptics: Luke, Marcion, and Thomas

https://www.academia.edu/123948288

#academic #christ #synopticproblem #apocrypha #GospelOfThomas

If you ask many Protestant Christians how many books are in the Bible, they will likely tell you that there are 66 books in the Bible – 39 in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament. However, if you ask other believers in different traditions of the Christian faith, you will likely hear a vastly different number concerning the total number of books. If you ask Catholic believers, they will tell you there are 73 books in total; Greek Orthodox believers will tell you that there are more than 75 books; and Ethiopian believers will tell you there are more than 80. So, why the discrepancy?

https://theliturgicalpentecostal.wordpress.com/2024/10/10/is-the-apocrypha-just-the-bad-books-of-the-bible/

#Apocrypha #ApocryphalBooks #Athanasius #Belief #Bible #BiblicalLiterature #BishopMelito #Christianity #CodexVaticanus #CyrilOfJerusalem #DeuterocanonicalBooks #God #Jesus #MartinLuther #Origen #WesternChristianity