New Testament, episode 12 - The Other Books: The Early Church Fathers & the Gnostic Gospels

It took several generations of the early Church to develop a consensus about which books belong in the New Testament. This episode is about those books that did not make the cut. The Early Church Fathers produced many texts that were generally accepted by the early Church (to varying degrees), but since the books lacked apostolic authority, they weren't deemed worthy of inclusion into the New Testament. More dramatically, a series of documents purported to be stories about Jesus, but these "Gnostic Gospels" give us a Jesus who teaches things that are not in line with His own teachings in the New Testament, but rather support the distinctive religious teachings of Gnosticism.