In need of some religious expertise....

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Read the Gospel of Judas. Very enlightening.

In this he is described as the first of the twelve, given the task ordained by God to betray Jesus.

There's more excluded from the New Testament than remains. Lots that didn't make the cut doesn't appear to be"on message" and like modern day back benchers was silenced.

I don't understand that considering the large numbers of works that were written, how did the Bishops know which were divinely written by proxy and which were not - or were all the editors also divinely possessed, as well as those that chose the editors and so on...

This assumes the Gospel of Judas is correct. As I said, it does not appear in records until 120, and irrc the extant copy is philologically dated to be later. All of the Canonical Gospels are dated to before 100 AB, with the possible exception of John. In any case, the "silencing" is a result of modern printing methods, apophrycal books were read and studied during the medieval epoch, as were the Letters of the Church Fathers.

Personally, I do not give this conspiracy theory and more credence than the lies the Inquisition spread about the Temple Knights.

[rory_20_uk]

This assumes the Gospel of Judas is correct. As I said, it does not appear in records until 120, and irrc the extant copy is philologically dated to be later. All of the Canonical Gospels are dated to before 100 AB, with the possible exception of John. In any case, the "silencing" is a result of modern printing methods, apophrycal books were read and studied during the medieval epoch, as were the Letters of the Church Fathers.

Personally, I do not give this conspiracy theory and more credence than the lies the Inquisition spread about the Temple Knights.

Of course. And seeing as there is no more evidence for this one compared to the four that were chosen - a minority of those that were written that we know of. What explanation is there that all these other texts were excluded? Most were written decades after the event including those that are canonical.