Is the New Testament Aprochaphal ok to read

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I know of the life of Mary the (protovegelium) and Epistles of early church father’s. It’s just one thing the lost gospel of Peter I was told it was banned was it gnostic? Because I stay away from gnostic books.
 
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Im not talking about gnostic gospels but stories such as the life of Mary mother of Jesus( protovegelium) the Epistles of early church fathers. Here is a list

spare parts.’–J.B. Hare, August 12, 2009.

Title Page
List of Illustrations
Introduction
The Order of All the Books
Preface
The Gospel of the Birth of Mary
The Protevangelion
The First Gospel of the Infancy of Jesus Christ
Thomas’s Gospel of the Infancy of Jesus Christ
The Epistles of Jesus Christ and Abgarus King of Edessa
The Gospel of Nicodemus, Formerly Called the Acts of Pontius Pilate
The Apostles’ Creed
The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Laodiceans
The Epistles of Paul the Apostle to Seneca, with Seneca’s to Paul
The Acts of Paul and Thecla
The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians
The Second Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians
The General Epistle of Barnabas
The Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians
The Epistle of Ignatius to the Magnesians
The Epistle of Ignatius to the Trallians
The Epistle of Ignatius to the Romans
The Epistle of Ignatius to the Philadelphians
The Epistle of Ignatius to the Smyrnæans
The Epistle of Ignatius to Polycarp
The Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians
The Shepherd of Hermas
The Second Book of Hermas, Called His Commands
The Third Book of Hermas, Which Is Called His Similitudes
Letters of Herod and Pilate
 
There are many books in circulation covering the period of Jesus or immediately thereafter purported to be written by certain authors who lived at that time .One famous among them is the Bible of Judas who in the book says,inshort ,that he was Jesus’s close friend and there was a secret deal with Jesus to betray him as Jesus wanted to escape from this world .Better avoid reading any book related Jesus claiming to be written by somebody of that period except our Bible because all such books will have some agenda hidden ot explicit ,attemting to lead us through a path other than the true one and eventually making us missing the destination.See a report about finding Judas’s bible said to have been hidden so far and some indication about its contents .Some people may believe it to be true also.

 
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You can read anything you want; but ask yourself, why do I want to read this particular book? If you can’t think of a reason - aside from mere curiosity - don’t read the book. There are better books and better reasons. Life is short. Don’t waste time.
 
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The reason why they are called apocryphal is that it is uncertain whether they are authentic or not.
I suggest talking with a priest about it. Or your usual confessor or in your case professor. Only he can know your spiritual state of faith. An apocryphal book can smitten you and shake your faith or not affect it at all. You just have to be ready to read an apocryphal book. The Church let what it is certainly written by the Apostles in the Holy Bible. Everything else couldn’t be verified so it’s not forbidden but it cannot be as certain as the NT.
 
Do you really need two separate threads asking the same question? You might consider deleting one of them.
 
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The Gospel of Peter has been rejected by Church Fathers as pseudoepigraphical (meaning it wasn’t written by Peter but in Peter’s name).


Pseudoepigrapha influenced the apparition of Gnosticism.

Pseudoepigrapha​

At the turn from the first century, many false writings about Christ were produced. These were the so-called apocryphal writings (not to be confused with the Old Testament apocrypha), also called pseudoepigrapha . These false writings carried the names of the apostles and introduced into Christian circles many fanciful and legendary stories about the childhood of Christ, the life of the Virgin Mary and the activities of the apostles.

With the pseudoepigrapha, there also appeared the false teachings of gnosticism, the Christian heresy which transformed Christianity into a kind of spiritualistic, dualistic, intellectualistic philosophy. The Christians of the Orthodox faith had to contend with these false teachings.
More on the Apocrypha.
https://orthodoxwiki.org/Apocrypha
 
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Have you read the Holy Bible cover to cover, from Genesis to Revelation?
 
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convertingtocatholic said:
I know of the life of Mary the (protovegelium)
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I can 't speak for the rest (other than noting that some of the Apocrypha are really strange), but the protoevangelium is the source of most of what we believe/think about Mary . . .

It’s one that “didn’t quite” make the cut as the canon was established, but was “awfully close”, and is “widely” accepted as something like “generally inspired” or some such . . .

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