| Secret
Gospel of Mark
Bible
Scholars Discuss a Secret Gospel Allegedly Belonging
to Mark
[In 4 Parts]
Read
for yourself how the Discovery of a Lost Letter by Clement of
Alexandria (Egypt) Scandalized Biblical Scholarship in the past
century - a secret Gospel? - Read on, if you dare.
Morton
Smith may not be a familiar name to the Christian lay
person, but perhaps he is a better known amongst the scholars
and researchers of ancient texts, particularly the manuscripts
pertaining to the Bible.
In
1958 Smith made a discovery while working in a library in Jerusalem.
He found a document that appeared, at least to him, to be a
gospel of Mark, older than the one now occupying the third position
in the Christian New Testament.
A
reference to Secret Mark is made in Elizabeth
Clare Prophet's book on the supposed "lost years"
of Jesus. She writes about Secret Mark saying,
she suggests early Christians possessed a larger, more
diverse body of writings and traditions of Jesus than
what has been handed down to us in the New Testament of today.
OK
- now get ready to read for yourself about - the Secret
Gospel of Mark
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These articles were originally published
in Alexandria, Egypt: The Journal for the Western Cosmological
Traditions, volume 3 (1995), pp. 103-129. Alexandria is edited
by David Fideler and is published by Phanes Press. The whole of
this article is copyright © 1995 by Phanes Press. All rights
reserved, including international rights.
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before it. Muslims have no option but they must respect the Bible
because some of it does still contain some of the original teachings
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one to read to try to learn about what our purpose is here in
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Final
comment from Yusuf Estes:
I would like to state that after years of studying the Bible and
then learning the Arabic language to read the Quran as it was
originally recited to Muhammad, peace be upon him, by the angel
Gabriel, I have come to an amazing conclusion. It seems to me
that the Bible and the Quran are most definitely from the exact
same source and they compliment each other very nicely. In fact,
it appears that the Bible does not contradict the Quran, except
in the very same places where the Bible contradicts itself. |
