Other Scriptures

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What were the other Scriptures present during the time when the Church canonized the Bible?

I mean, the Church tells which were Inspired and which were not Inspired especially in the NT. What are those Scriptures they reject for not being Inspired?
 
There you go:

earlychristianwritings.com/

The scriptures that didn’t make it in fall into several categories:
  1. Some are clearly written many years after the time of the Apostles (sometimes as much as 200 years) and are recording little more than “fairy tales” that fill in the gaps in the Gospels. The Infancy Gospel of Thomas would fall into this category. It’s fairly amusing to read, but clearly heretical, as it has incidents like young Jesus using the power of God to strike his teacher dead for scolding him, and then angry Joseph comes and makes him resurrect him.
  2. Some are scriptures used by the Gnostics. The Gospel of Thomas would fall into this category. These tend to emphasize the evil of all things of this world and the goodness of the spiritual world. They also purport to have a hidden code that will allow anyone who deciphers it into heaven, regardless of their moral conduct.
  3. Some writings contain elements of the truth, but also some incorrect information. These were debated long and hard, and were determined either to be excluded due to one or more serious factual errors, or because they were simply not inspired (although they discuss early Christianity in a correct manner). The Didache, Epistle of Barnabas, and Shepherd of Hermas would fall into this category. These tended to be some of the most hotly debated writings.
 
iamACE said:
What were the other Scriptures present during the time when the Church canonized the Bible?

I mean, the Church tells which were Inspired and which were not Inspired especially in the NT. What are those Scriptures they reject for not being Inspired?
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Just a slight correction on terminology. If books were rejected as not being canonical, or inspired, they are NOT SCRIPTURE. What the Council of Hippo did was to define scripture and the canonical books.
Deacon Ed B
 
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