I remember being TERRIFIED as a kid when I heard of the gospel according to Peter. I was raised thinking that Elohim has magickally preserved the bible, so the existence of a text which claimed to be holy but wasn’t in the bible made me question how we really knew the books actually in the bible were holy. It was a scary time for a 9 year old
Have you watched Trey the Explainers “Changes to the Bible” miniseries? He expressed many similar feelings to what you have written and were really chill about it
@@UnironicallyToast actually, yeah I have. He’s super good at what he does. I really liked his stuff on the nephilim and Lilith. But also, the first time in like 6 months I clicked a trey the explainer video happened to be the moment I saw your comment telling me to watch him lol. That was a really weird coincidence
Exactly The correct term is deuterocanonical. Tobit, Judith, Baruch, Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach, 1 & 2 Maccabees have been in the Bible since conception. Only Protestants have the Luther Canon which removed Scripture from the Bible. That said, the fact Irenaeus, disciple of Polycarp, disciple of John, disciple of Jesus Christ, is mentioned, and pronounced correctly, I give the film maker a pass on the Apocrypha confusion.
@@harryallenpearce89 The term apocrypha was applied to the books by Jerome who died in AD420. He insisted that they were not scripture and did not want to include them in the Vulgate but was overruled. The disputation on these books does not originate with the reformation.
Dus Wil Jerome quoted those writings as Scripture later. You left that part out. And it was Martin Luther that moved those books to the center and titled the Apocrypha, declaring them to not be Scripture. Both Jerome and Luther were referring back to the Council of Jamnia. Not only was the Deuterocanonical books left out, Jesus Christ was also rejected as Messiah, and all NT writings were rejected. In Jerome’s defense, he didn’t know that canonization happened AFTER the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, which is why Jerome changed his opinion later, quoting those writings. Martin Luther doesn’t have that excuse.
This is really interesting to me because in middle school I had a kid from Ethiopia in my class who's name was Enoch (he insisted everyone call him Mr. Enoch) and now that I'm learning that the Ethiopian church consideres the book of Enoch canon and is responsible for preserving it. Neat.
I saw Apocrypha and automatically thought "Hermaeus Mora?" I would really like to have a Bible with every single book nothing cut out I want the real book
I mean as a commenter put it, the bible is literally just a bunch of fanfiction and eventually some people decided what was canon and what isn't. The bible is already a mess of plotholes and continuity errors in it of itself, but adding the other books would make it into an ungodly and impossible to understand amalgamation of weird stories. It would be cool to have a complete bible for historical purposes, but seeing how religious people put the bible on such a high pedestal, they probably wouldn't take a complete bible seriously and they'd say that it's blasphemy or something weird like that.
That would be a long ass series. Shepherd of Hermas, 1st and 2nd apocalypses of Peter, 2nd and 3rd apocalypses of John, Gospel of Judas, Gospel of Thomas, Infancy Gospel of Thomas. Those are just the ones that pop into my head from recent memory, I agree it'd be sick, but to do it justice he'd need to consult relevant scholars with respect to apocrypha, like John J. Collins for example. If he did that, I think it could be a gem of a series.
I'm neither religious or someone who studies the Bible, but I find your videos fascinating from a historical point of view - how things come to take on the meaning and identity we give them now, and how the Bible has been put together through numerous component books and authors into how we know it today... Your tone and presentation is informative and well balanced to enable a layman like myself to learn, and provides plenty of food for thought. Many thanks for your hard work and efforts.
The fact you don’t have 5 million subscribers is insane. You provide such informational videos that are presented perfectly and all of the information is so interesting and delivered in an engaging format.
Also, I want to say. I really do like your content. Its production quality is amazing. I especially like the mythology videos, because I can't find any others like it. Keep it up man!
@@estebanm8394 Ya, probably, but then I bet another religion will come along once we discover some weird star formation and people will think it's some great chaos god and get on their knees and start worshiping it.
I've wanted to find a channel like this for a while. I've always loved lore and wanted to explore the mythology side of Christianity without having to actually follow the new age version of religion
You might like the work of Jonathan Pageau. He has a brilliant mind for symbolic/narrative patterns, especially in Christianity. th-cam.com/users/JonathanPageau
@@TomorrowWeLive New Age Christianity is the religion as a system and practiced today. It really strays from core principles, and many sects of NAC still follow the old testament and its punishments. Too many people today claim to be Christian, and use it as a scape goat to hate people.
@@makotomachiyuki Sorry to break it to you but the bible was written by humans. Humans from thousands of years ago whose knowledge was incredibly limited compared to all that we know now.
I wish I could remember the name of the documentary that basically said that Judas was the only one to actually understand the message Jesus was trying to explain....
as a Catholic I just want to say that this was a good video, thank you for not dissing anyone's faith and keeping the 3rd person view throughout the video. I learned some new things too and I did want to say that you got a lot of information correct on the Catholic Bible, keep up the great work
I would love to here more about the book of Judas. I never heard of the book, but considering what Judas did, it would make sense for his book to change the image of Jesus.
It would change the image of both Jesus and Judas. I imagine that it says that "the betrayal" was actually part of the Plan, because how could it not have been?
@@straightupanarg6226 it’s a gnostic gospel and gnostics believe that a human could get a higher power of salvation the gospel is about some false conversations about Jesus and Judas were Jesus tells Judas that’s above them all and that he even could get Jesus place on the cross you see how it’s gnostic now? The cannonical gospels tells us that Judas died by suicide and the gnostic gospel of Judas says that he was stoned to death by the 11 disciples
It's definitely made up. It literally says Jesus lied about everything and he will only tell Judas the truth. It's also written in the third century, hundreds of years after Judas's suicide.
U can easily find the enoch book i got one.It talks about the nature or nephilims and how the world works.Its actually the first book that says earth is sphere and says how seasons works.
Enoch is interesting. I really, REALLY don't recommend looking into the Gnostic gospels. They're deeply occultic, and it'll be a test for your soul if you go down that route.
Would love to see a breakdown of the book of Jasher, or the Book of (Adam&)Eve. Jasher is a particular favourite of mine and very elucidating, in the context of such.
Personally I found the First Book of Adam and Eve kinda funny. It really paints the picture of a parent and child relationship between God and Adam and Eve.
Ur channel and specifically this video, in a strange way made me develop a profound curiosity for the bible. I've been a Christian for a long time, but this showed to me how much knowledge of the context of those times you must have to really comprehend what's written and how interesting it can be.
I was really craving for more detailed explanations or possible interpretations of each book as you were presenting them. So my answer to your last question: I want every book in detail!
@@davidtilley354 it goes into the nature of god and what god is in the esoteric metaphysical sense. Like how it describes life as an endless cycle of torture and that the only way to go towards the greater heaven is to reach some form of understanding.
@yes'nt Yeah, The god that Christians worship today is an evil and manipulative one and the true god doesn't want to be worshipped. All he wants is for mankind to reach deep understanding of the soul, the universe and the collective experience. The heavens and earth is actually hell. It's not where the true god resides. The true god wants mankind to break it's cycle of life, death, Reincarnation and enter his domain where the greater reality awaits. That's really what Jesus tried to convey judas.
This channel and Trey the Explainer are some of the best content on YT and seeing as how Trey was my previous favorite channel dealing with stuff like this that's high praise
What most people do not consider is that "The Bible" was translated into the Latin language at a certain time, in a certain place and by a certain people. Not only was it translated, it was cobbled together from many separate items in different languages, from diverse lands and eras. Effectively, "The Bible" was created, by selecting and editing certain scriptures in certain ways. Had some decisions been made differently, we could have ended up with a completely different bible, and some completely different religions as well. But as it is, the creation process of this book was full of opportunities for things to go wrong. The decision to produce a single book may have been a mistake in itself.
Only in the West. We use the Septuagint only which is Greek, written in Greek from before the time of Jesus. The New Testament was also written in Greek.
@@Tsalagi978 Fascinating. And to think I always assumed the Old Testament was written in Hebrew, but today I have learned those ancient sheep herders were literate in Greek. Truly miraculous. Thank you for this wisdom.
my math teacher taught me about stuff like this. he said they had a lot of them in Vatican city.also this is probably my favorite channel. some of the most interesting stuff ive seen on youtube.
It's not about "doing it wrong". It's about what benefits they will gain, remove the parts that are not for their benefits, so that the vatican has the highest power globally.
You do a great job of explaining succinctly and clearly and making rather tedious (yet curious) topics plainly understood thanks for doing it and enlightening us while saving us so much time!
Just finished my last exams and this was my dessert!! Wonderful job as always, I absolutely love the background music you put on these. I also like that you are making this more interactive with us. I can't decide between both of the books, so I'm going to flow with the majority
The book of Enoch always comes up in Ancient Aliens, always connecting the fallen angels as extraterrestrials. And history did one in the Gospel of Judas, really interesting and spiritual content. It would be great hear your take on these two books. Love this channel!
My brother was an atheist also at one time & nobody could get through without ( biblically 12 Steping him, so I made a weed rolling tray with the tini centerfold of hometown hotties from F.HM. STUFF MAGAZINE & SHOWED HIM 187 REASONS THAT GOD EXSISTED & HIS LIFES BEEN THE BETTER FOR IT
Just look around Giueppe,,, you couldn't possibly have m8ssed it, you where probably just preoccupied with important life troubles & overlooked it until now
Ah , yes Apocrypha. The book that contains the knowledge on how to beat an ancient Dragonborn and the MC is a tentacle monster. If you get this reference, you are a true hero.
I found your channel a day ago and spent the last couple hours binging your videos! You're a great creator. Very interesting. Maybe you could do a video about how certain "Christian" holidays were originally Pagan and the origins thereof? I wish you the best, and you're a wonderfully intriguing creator :)
The Gospel of Mary please. As hers is the only time I have ever been told about a female point of perspective! All of these books and there, fairly, untold stories are fascinating to me!! Good work again!
I'm really sorry about this, but this "gospel" is heresy. It was written in the third century, completely contradicts both the Old and New Testaments and was definitely made up by the author. Gnostics had a habit of taking random characters from the Bible and having Jesus tell them the "actual truth". The most common were Mary Magdalene and Judas.
I read the book of Enoch once (a long time ago) and the most remarkable stuff I remember is that he basically talked about evolution of species, and that there was something called "The Rage " (or idk, I read it in Spanish) that seemed to be above Satan; Satan talks to it and such and kinda does what it says. Or maybe I just had a crazy dream like John lol. Seriously though, I'm pretty sure I read that stuff.
Sometimes that kind of memory is given to you by a messenger. That's what your memory sounds like. It's confusing to explain. People are shown things, they know they saw it or heard it or whatever but can't exactly remember how. Dream visions are cool too. You have to be careful about who the messenger is though. The fallen angels did this to me as a child. I saw truth through their eyes. It's not meant for humans to understand. I have biblical strength nightmares coming true these days and its not the way I expected at all. Like the giants that would chase me. I was scared sh.. to fall asleep every single night. It's real but I'm not going to be chased like they wanted me to think.
Looking forward to season 2! Would really be interested in hearing more about Gnostic Christians, since they seem to be really unorthodox an interesting. I would like to hear your take on the myth of Yaldabaoth and the Demiurge. I also think it'd be interesting to here your take on William Blake and his art/poetry regarding the Red Dragon, Urizen, etc.
David fed the dragon so much that it exploded? Hmm I'm getting the old polish legend vibe when ,,Szewczyk Dratewka" or ,,Shoemaker Dratewka" made a fake sheep filled with sulfur as bait to a dragon that was ruining his kings castle, the dragon ate the sheep and he started to feel thirsty, he proceeded to drink the water from the river nearby, he was constantly drinking the water and then there was a very loud noise coming from the place where he was drinking the water. He drank so much that he exploded
@@PeaceToTheUniverse wym people are dying for something they think is real so obviously there's at least some chance it's not real because there's no proof. There's also no proof that the "word of God" has been spoken, only people whom have claimed to have heard it
@@PeaceToTheUniverse but you said this is not fiction. These books are not Christian canon and you can't believe in them. To you they are fiction. There is no evidence that the word he spoke was truth. In fact there is no evidence he even said half the stuff he is claimed to. Historically they only verifiable fact about Jesus was that he existed and people followed him, the rest could be hog wash.
But for Christians they don’t believe in those books because they are so far after the original books and are written with unknown authors they were deemed non canon to most theologians. I also believe they are non canon due to how long they came after the other books and by their authors
@@Arelius_02 many of the so called “apocryphal” were always part of Christianity because they were part of Judaism during Jesus' time. Some books like Maccabees do take place after, but that's because there's a period of centuries between the Old and New Testament in Protestant Bibles were nothing happens, Catholic and Orthodox Bibles fill this void, and these more historical focused books are no different than Chronicles for example, no real reason to exclude them.
@@adrian7856 yea their is because during Maliki the Old Testament was completed n anything between him and Jesus is non biblically cannon because the Old Testament was complete and anything after or during Jesus is the New Testament adding false books after the Old Testament is wrong an shouldn’t be put inside of the Bible the Jews didn’t except them themselves and in the Dead Sea scrolls none of those books where added because they weren’t expected because those books contradict other books of the Old Testament or show false beliefs
@@Arelius_02 You are wrong, there are literal books of the Dead Sea Scrolls like Sirach, Tobit and Baruch not found in Protestant Bibles or Jewish Tanakh, but they are found in Catholic and Orthodox Bibles. And who's Maliki?
@@adrian7856 sorry I meant Malachi stupid iPhone autocorrect who was the last of the minor prophets and is the last book of the Old Testament those apocrypha do not correlate with the rest of the Old Testament maccabees states you may pray for the dead while the Bible states Deuteronomy 18:9-12 states a consulter with familiar sports, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the lord Jews believed that the Bible doesn’t contradict itself and doesn’t have any contradictions inside of it either but adding those non biblical canon text contradicts the Bible after Malachi the Old Testament was complete and finished anything after between him and Jesus’s time is non canon because once Jesus is born the New Testament starts leaving no room for any other false texts
Obviously your just making it up to sound erudite it you really wanted to know about Adam an Eve n Lilith before translations you would be you would be doing the searches on Google and in Greek or mebbe Hebrew. All english discussions of these manuscripts are by definition translations whut a maroon.
Something I have always wondered is that is the apocrypha merely inconsistent accounts left out of the original Bible or are they accounts left out because the church couldn't use them to exercise their authority?
The Apocryphal books are only called that by protestants, they're canonical to Catholics and Eastern Orthodox. The Gnostic gospels are a different group of books which were excluded because they were, in fact, the secret property of certain christian groups. They weren't included in the Bible because they weren't common knowledge.
When we're talking about the Old Testament apocrypha, we have a bit of a problem. The person in the video is using wrong terminology, the books like Tobit, Judith and 1 and 2 Maccabees were in the Bible since 300 BC, but Luther thought they were made up stories, so protestants don't have them, but both the catholic and orthodox churches treat them like any other books. That's why they are called deuterocanonical books, not apocrypha. The real Old Testament apocrypha like Enoch or Jubilees are just books written by Bible scholars that were never really aiming to be in the Bible, they were just interesting teachings claiming to be written by some important Old Testament character to be more popular. So those were either obviously not trying to be in the Bible or they were gotten rid of by Luther. When it comes to New Testament apocrypha, the great majority are already too new to be in the Bible, being fifth-or-more-hand accounts of Jesus's life. Out of these you have those that simply collect tradition of questionable origin (Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, Acts of Peter), those that are made up "fanfiction" (Acts of Paul and Thecla, Infancy Gospel of James, Questions of Bartholomew) and those made up by gnostics (Gospel of Philip, Gospel of Mary, Gospel of Judas) that all follow a single theme: a person Jesus knew is told the "actual truth" by him, the apostles don't believe them and so the gnostics are better because all of Jesus's teachings were fake and only that one person was told the truth and only they know it. They are so obviously fake it's absurd. None of those three types of New Testament apocrypha were trustworthy enough to be put in the Bible. And then there are just some letters by early scholars and popes that easily could have been in the Bible but people just decided that they were just written too late. Nothing controversial about them, they just had to draw the line somewhere. So no, no books were excluded because christians didn't like them.
3:30 that story reminded me of polish Dragon of Wawel. The dragon was reigning terror over farmers and shepherds, so a shoemaker made a fakeout sheep, full of sulfur and pitch. After eating the sheep, the dragon got really thirsty and drank so much water it exploded. Maybe the polish legend was based off of this one?
I am so glad I came across your channel. I've been binging your videos for the last week. Thank you for making complex topics accessible to ordinary people like yours truly. Much appreciated!
Wonderful video. I've always thought myself an amateur theologist and I had no idea. Thank you for filling in the gaps to my knowledge, looking forward to learning more from you
I went to a Christian school, and man how cool it would of been to hear those stories and question the Canon of the Bible. Keep it up buddy. Gonna go watch the Lucifer one now lol.
Welcome to factsverse, today were going to be talking about books that didn't make it into the Bible. When you read the Bible you might think you're seeing everything but there are just some books that didn't make the cut.
@@ngl1553 57 people would disagree so Im gonna have to go ahead and ask you to sit down. Not my fault you're too smooth brained to understand a very obvious joke.
A video about the book of Enoch, the gospel of Mary and the gospel of judas look like they could be very helpful in our spiritual development my friend!
Your work is amazing, I really loved the video about the true form of angels (aka demons, too) and I would love to hear you go more in-depth about the book of Enoch and the whole Watchers series ^^
I would very much like to learn more about The Book of Enoch. I first heard of it in a book called Uriel's Machine written by Lomas & Knight. Thanks for the videos. Jake
Hey, hey, I just subscribed!!! Just interacting with your page here. Seriously, I’m so glad I ran across your channel. I was raised southern Baptist, am now atheist, and am absolutely obsessed with Christian and Jewish religious studies. All religious studies, really. Anyhoo, I fucking love this, keep up the good work!!!
I've just stumbled across your channel. I'm not entirely sure how. LOL TH-cam is funny that way. But I wanted to thank you. This is exactly the kind of study I wanted to do when I was young, back before I gave up thoughts of the seminary to become a heathen. Reaching both into the original texts instead of our modern (mis)translations, as well as exciting new discoveries back then like the Dead Sea Scrolls and the books we hadn't heard about in mainstream, there was a lot to find fascinating for a teen diving deep enough to question everything about life, faith included, which started my research into all religions, not just Christianity. So this channel is both heart-warming nostalgia and just as intriguing today. Thanks! I wish more scholars would delve deep into these origins. Religion is a lot more interesting than churches give it credit for. LOL
It might sound strange, but the Wikipedia articles are actually very thorough with the subject -- for example, the page for the Great Schism of 1054 (Catholic-Orthodox) is longer than the one for Hitler. Keep in mind that every source you read will be biased in some way. It sounds like you're probably Protestant -- but most of the (reliable) sources for early Christianity are Catholic or Orthodox. Secular history can only get you so far since there's an unbroken tradition of writings passed on from the Apostles to the current Pope and Patriarchs. Those Church Fathers -- Ignatius of Antioch, Clement of Rome, Polycarp, Irenaeus, Chrysostom, Augustine -- are theologians in their own right and (in my opinion) should be at least respected by all denominations. If you've read the New Testament already, I'd recommend starting here if you want to learn about the Early Church (until 120AD): List of Church Fathers: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Fathers The Didache (early Christian writing, ~60AD): www.earlychristianwritings.com/didache.html Portal for writings of the Church Fathers (Catholic source, some Protestant ones available for sale under the name "ante-Nicene fathers" but it's basically the same): www.newadvent.org/fathers/ From there, you can Ctrl+F the seven epistles of Ignatius of Antioch (early 2nd century), Clement of Rome's First Epistle (70 or 96AD), Polycarp's Epistle to the Philippians (mid-2nd century), Irenaeus' Adversus Haereses (Against Heresies, 180AD), and Eusebius' Church History (310s AD). Just make sure before you read something to make sure that it's genuine (not apocryphal). If you're just looking for Protestant history, here's a TL;DR for all of the Wikipedia pages: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christianity_major_branches.svg There are too many Protestant denominations to list in a TH-cam comment, so for each individual history I'd recommend looking up each one independently. Also, I'm sorry to any Restorationists or "Church in the Wilderness Baptists" out there, but your church's founding date is probably in the 19th-20th centuries, not in the 1st. Only the Catholic and Orthodox Churches have that claim. You can't magically not have the Church from the end of the 1st century to whenever your group was founded.
I see you have done this video on the Protestant Bible, not the earlier canon that the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Churches have as their core. This canon includes books such as Tobit, Judith, the addition of Bel and the Dragon to Daniel in chapter 14, etc. I just wanted to let everyone know not all of these are truly excluded from the Bible, it all depends on whether you have the Bible with the earlier canon, or the Bible with the canon following Martin Luther and other Protestant leaders removing some books from the official canon, subsequently moving them into a secondary canon called the Apocrypha, and eventually removing them altogether.
Season II is here!
how do you find all this bible art?
Yay
Book of judas please! Would be quite interesting I think.
YES
Heck yeahhhhh
Ah, the BEU - Biblical Extended Universe.
lmfao
Bible: into the multiverse.
I’d watch the shit out of that franchise🤣
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Would anybody else like to learn more about the book of Enoch? It seems pretty cool since it includes demons and things like nephilim
Religion for Breakfast did a video on it. Of course you can find the full text online and many websites, like Wikipedia, will have a summary.
Fk no bAaBy
Inspiringphilosophy made a good video on it. It was scholarly. I recomend it.
Grab an Ethiopian Bible Nate, they preserved it.
Enoch 1 is canon to the Bible in many places
The image of a dude shoving cakes down a dragon's throat until it chokes on said cakes is fucking hilarious to me.
Makes me wonder if the writer was inspired by watching pigeons explode after eating too much rice lmao
Same here! Mythology never ceases to amaze.
I was damn near crying from laughter when I heard that part
It is more convincing than St George with his toothpick of a sword, and so much funnier!
I guess you must've been laughing, but, he fed the dragon cakes until it exploded.
This video won’t age well when Disney acquires the Bible.
I almost spit out my water
Disney acquired the bible when it's stock tanked after the children's inquisition.
Don't the Jews already own religion?
THAT'S AN OFF-COLOR JOKE, 2021!
I hate you 🤣
Breaking News: Disney has acquired the Roman Catholic Church for $800,000,000 after the Catholic Church filed for bankruptcy due to it's debts
I remember being TERRIFIED as a kid when I heard of the gospel according to Peter. I was raised thinking that Elohim has magickally preserved the bible, so the existence of a text which claimed to be holy but wasn’t in the bible made me question how we really knew the books actually in the bible were holy. It was a scary time for a 9 year old
Have you watched Trey the Explainers “Changes to the Bible” miniseries? He expressed many similar feelings to what you have written and were really chill about it
@@UnironicallyToast actually, yeah I have. He’s super good at what he does. I really liked his stuff on the nephilim and Lilith.
But also, the first time in like 6 months I clicked a trey the explainer video happened to be the moment I saw your comment telling me to watch him lol. That was a really weird coincidence
You still a Christian?
what is it
@@vincentmackinnon3601 what?
Well this is like a Vsauce of religious topics.
I feel like that woupd be Religion for Breakfast
Hey vsauce here
Let's Talk Religion is my favourite, but I would say Religion For Breakfast is the Vsauce
hopefully it wont disappear like vsauce
@@meesalikeu Vsauce is still going fine
I feel like if the dude “walked with God” he might have had some important stuff to include in the bible
That’s exactly why it got hidden, stay woke👀
@Anonymous Person none of the gospels are... they’re oral tradition that was written down years and years later
@@akanji8285 greek bible is garbage
@@akanji8285 you forgot to include the Holy Spirit was with them the whole way writing it so they had a fair bit of help
@@Mulasign not a historical fact.
Only known as “Apocrypha” to Protestants. Those books have always been in our Old Testament Canon in the East. I’m Orthodox.
Exactly
The correct term is deuterocanonical. Tobit, Judith, Baruch, Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach, 1 & 2 Maccabees have been in the Bible since conception. Only Protestants have the Luther Canon which removed Scripture from the Bible.
That said, the fact Irenaeus, disciple of Polycarp, disciple of John, disciple of Jesus Christ, is mentioned, and pronounced correctly, I give the film maker a pass on the Apocrypha confusion.
@@harryallenpearce89 The term apocrypha was applied to the books by Jerome who died in AD420. He insisted that they were not scripture and did not want to include them in the Vulgate but was overruled. The disputation on these books does not originate with the reformation.
You're right. I'm Latin rite Catholic.
Dus Wil
Jerome quoted those writings as Scripture later.
You left that part out.
And it was Martin Luther that moved those books to the center and titled the Apocrypha, declaring them to not be Scripture.
Both Jerome and Luther were referring back to the Council of Jamnia. Not only was the Deuterocanonical books left out, Jesus Christ was also rejected as Messiah, and all NT writings were rejected.
In Jerome’s defense, he didn’t know that canonization happened AFTER the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, which is why Jerome changed his opinion later, quoting those writings.
Martin Luther doesn’t have that excuse.
@@harryallenpearce89 correct.
This is really interesting to me because in middle school I had a kid from Ethiopia in my class who's name was Enoch (he insisted everyone call him Mr. Enoch) and now that I'm learning that the Ethiopian church consideres the book of Enoch canon and is responsible for preserving it. Neat.
Maybe that's why dark forces are all ways so hard on the children of our father in etheopia..God bless them
At that, they believe to be direct descendants of Christ. Or something along the lines. See the revolution, and Salassi
I saw Apocrypha and automatically thought "Hermaeus Mora?"
I would really like to have a Bible with every single book nothing cut out I want the real book
As someone currently playing Skyrim, this was exactly what I thought when I saw the thumbnail 😂
I unintentionally bought one such version on Google Play (didn't realize it had these missing books).
I mean as a commenter put it, the bible is literally just a bunch of fanfiction and eventually some people decided what was canon and what isn't. The bible is already a mess of plotholes and continuity errors in it of itself, but adding the other books would make it into an ungodly and impossible to understand amalgamation of weird stories. It would be cool to have a complete bible for historical purposes, but seeing how religious people put the bible on such a high pedestal, they probably wouldn't take a complete bible seriously and they'd say that it's blasphemy or something weird like that.
@@qwertydavid8070 yeah i agree w you and it really sucks. i wanna read the real bible
that’s exactly what i thought too lol
Do commentary on all the apocrypha books . Explain one book at a time . That would be fascinating.
That would be a long ass series.
Shepherd of Hermas, 1st and 2nd apocalypses of Peter, 2nd and 3rd apocalypses of John, Gospel of Judas, Gospel of Thomas, Infancy Gospel of Thomas. Those are just the ones that pop into my head from recent memory, I agree it'd be sick, but to do it justice he'd need to consult relevant scholars with respect to apocrypha, like John J. Collins for example. If he did that, I think it could be a gem of a series.
Yes please.
@@chaseharrison2064 better for the channel, more content
@@lenkngomez8451 But doing all the apocryphal literature is no mean feat, so he'd need to be diligent and consult scholars. Otherwise, I'm all for it.
Lol there are hundreds
the bible fanfiction got so out of hand that a group of fans gathered together in a convention to decide what is and isn't canon
bruh was that a nicene creed reference
Who could forget Christ-Con.
@@pliskin101 does anyone know where the panel is for True Christianity 101 ??
Lol
reminds me of the lovecraftian canon lol
Don’t know how I found this channel, but I’m glad I did.
I was literally thinking that precise thought! Brilliant madness & mad brilliance!
Sameee now i cant stop watching these videos
same
I know right?? The replay value is insane
it just popped in to my recommended vids, it was about the biblically accurate angels. This channel is like those angels giving messages to humans.
I'm neither religious or someone who studies the Bible, but I find your videos fascinating from a historical point of view - how things come to take on the meaning and identity we give them now, and how the Bible has been put together through numerous component books and authors into how we know it today... Your tone and presentation is informative and well balanced to enable a layman like myself to learn, and provides plenty of food for thought. Many thanks for your hard work and efforts.
The fact you don’t have 5 million subscribers is insane. You provide such informational videos that are presented perfectly and all of the information is so interesting and delivered in an engaging format.
Ikr. Most people seems to prefer watching stupid tiktok videos and so on...
Don't forget us when you're famous
I imagine hochelaga will be the next kurzegast, but instead of science it'll be of religious texts .
I second this!!!!!! Both of your comments
true dat!
@@tufhgjfghfhgjfgh true dat!
@@AlejandroJMA true dat!
Also, I want to say. I really do like your content. Its production quality is amazing. I especially like the mythology videos, because I can't find any others like it. Keep it up man!
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the only difference between mythology and religion is time
@@JoJoZaka true, at some point Judaism, Christianity, Islam etc along with every other religion will become mythology
@@estebanm8394 Ya, probably, but then I bet another religion will come along once we discover some weird star formation and people will think it's some great chaos god and get on their knees and start worshiping it.
@@estebanm8394 nooooooo
cutting room floor edits
best saved for _new testament: the director's cut_
Rated R for increased violence
Never thought evil otto would get a yt account
Presented in black and white and with a 4:3 aspect ratio like God intended
3:34 "Surprisingly however, is not with a sword, but by feeding it enough cakes to cause it to explode"
Wheck-it-Ralph 2 intensifies
I've wanted to find a channel like this for a while. I've always loved lore and wanted to explore the mythology side of Christianity without having to actually follow the new age version of religion
What the fuck do you mean "New Age Version"? Do you mean Christianity?
@@TomorrowWeLive oh boy here we go
You might like the work of Jonathan Pageau. He has a brilliant mind for symbolic/narrative patterns, especially in Christianity. th-cam.com/users/JonathanPageau
Theology is so fun and interesting when you take away the 60 year old christians who tell women with tattoos that they're whores that'll burn in hell
@@TomorrowWeLive New Age Christianity is the religion as a system and practiced today. It really strays from core principles, and many sects of NAC still follow the old testament and its punishments. Too many people today claim to be Christian, and use it as a scape goat to hate people.
I am personally a Christian and these videos really give me insight on questions I have
never trust humans for answer, even if they are believer
Bible is more trustworthy to get the answers, at least for me
plot twist: the Bible is writen by human capable of bullshit so take it with a grand of salt
@@makotomachiyuki Sorry to break it to you but the bible was written by humans. Humans from thousands of years ago whose knowledge was incredibly limited compared to all that we know now.
@@Rascarrr no shit it was written by humans you just stated the obvious it's a god inspired book exactly how god wanted it
@@murderonmarz1647 true
The Gospel of Judas sounds exciting
Not sure if you're aware of it but I refer you to the episodes of Red Dwarf called Waiting for God and Lemons.
I have read it & the main idea was that judas knew what he was doing was fulfilling the prophecy made by god & that he did it because of that
I wish I could remember the name of the documentary that basically said that Judas was the only one to actually understand the message Jesus was trying to explain....
@@phoneboxchicken4108 that was an awesome episode!
@@jefferygoldmann2643 so basically Judas is an misunderstood Hero or something
as a Catholic I just want to say that this was a good video, thank you for not dissing anyone's faith and keeping the 3rd person view throughout the video. I learned some new things too and I did want to say that you got a lot of information correct on the Catholic Bible, keep up the great work
I would love to here more about the book of Judas. I never heard of the book, but considering what Judas did, it would make sense for his book to change the image of Jesus.
It would change the image of both Jesus and Judas. I imagine that it says that "the betrayal" was actually part of the Plan, because how could it not have been?
@@straightupanarg6226 it’s a gnostic gospel and gnostics believe that a human could get a higher power of salvation the gospel is about some false conversations about Jesus and Judas were Jesus tells Judas that’s above them all and that he even could get Jesus place on the cross you see how it’s gnostic now? The cannonical gospels tells us that Judas died by suicide and the gnostic gospel of Judas says that he was stoned to death by the 11 disciples
I would care not, what the traitor has to contribute,
@@jacobsien1078 litterally written like 200 years after Judas died by gnostic people
It's definitely made up. It literally says Jesus lied about everything and he will only tell Judas the truth. It's also written in the third century, hundreds of years after Judas's suicide.
Would love to hear more on Enoch, Judas seems like a meaty topic as well however.
U can easily find the enoch book i got one.It talks about the nature or nephilims and how the world works.Its actually the first book that says earth is sphere and says how seasons works.
Enoch is interesting.
I really, REALLY don't recommend looking into the Gnostic gospels. They're deeply occultic, and it'll be a test for your soul if you go down that route.
The Book of Adam and Eve, and the book of Jubilees>>>
Honestly, I'd love to see a video on each of these texts!
Why don't you just buy the book? I have a copy. Is not difficult to find
Would love to see a breakdown of the book of Jasher, or the Book of (Adam&)Eve. Jasher is a particular favourite of mine and very elucidating, in the context of such.
Personally I found the First Book of Adam and Eve kinda funny. It really paints the picture of a parent and child relationship between God and Adam and Eve.
try to locate with search..
It's just about laws in the old testament
Ur channel and specifically this video, in a strange way made me develop a profound curiosity for the bible. I've been a Christian for a long time, but this showed to me how much knowledge of the context of those times you must have to really comprehend what's written and how interesting it can be.
I was really craving for more detailed explanations or possible interpretations of each book as you were presenting them. So my answer to your last question: I want every book in detail!
You're back! Hope your studies are going well.
I feel like I should pay you for this information
you can pay me if you like
You are paying him in a way. TH-cam pays him for views and subs
Meh... Chuck Missler above all.
The gospel of judas sounds really interesting
Why?
@@davidtilley354 it goes into the nature of god and what god is in the esoteric metaphysical sense. Like how it describes life as an endless cycle of torture and that the only way to go towards the greater heaven is to reach some form of understanding.
@yes'nt Yeah, The god that Christians worship today is an evil and manipulative one and the true god doesn't want to be worshipped. All he wants is for mankind to reach deep understanding of the soul, the universe and the collective experience. The heavens and earth is actually hell. It's not where the true god resides. The true god wants mankind to break it's cycle of life, death, Reincarnation and enter his domain where the greater reality awaits. That's really what Jesus tried to convey judas.
Constantine: not Canonnnnnnnn!
@@pixelcount350 where can I read more on this?
I would just like to say your work is amazing, I smile ear to ear every time I see a video of yours pop up in my feed.
This channel and Trey the Explainer are some of the best content on YT and seeing as how Trey was my previous favorite channel dealing with stuff like this that's high praise
What most people do not consider is that "The Bible" was translated into the Latin language at a certain time, in a certain place and by a certain people. Not only was it translated, it was cobbled together from many separate items in different languages, from diverse lands and eras. Effectively, "The Bible" was created, by selecting and editing certain scriptures in certain ways. Had some decisions been made differently, we could have ended up with a completely different bible, and some completely different religions as well. But as it is, the creation process of this book was full of opportunities for things to go wrong. The decision to produce a single book may have been a mistake in itself.
Only in the West. We use the Septuagint only which is Greek, written in Greek from before the time of Jesus. The New Testament was also written in Greek.
I didn't know Moses understood Greek ... Fascinating.
@@kevinyoung42 Greek was used by Jews outside of Palestine which was how the Septuagint came to be.
@@Tsalagi978 Fascinating. And to think I always assumed
the Old Testament was written in Hebrew, but today I have learned those ancient sheep herders were literate in Greek. Truly miraculous. Thank you for this wisdom.
@@kevinyoung42 then you’re not as intelligent as you thought because the Greek Septuagint was translated by Jews for Greek speaking Jews.🤦🏻♂️
my math teacher taught me about stuff like this. he said they had a lot of them in Vatican city.also this is probably my favorite channel. some of the most interesting stuff ive seen on youtube.
A lot of them is in the internet. You can just search them
Hey dude, great work as usually explaining religion in a very non opinionated way. Keep going, ya awesome
When you have to edit the bible because you think its excess, you're doing it wrong. Translate not localize.
It's not about "doing it wrong". It's about what benefits they will gain, remove the parts that are not for their benefits, so that the vatican has the highest power globally.
They weren’t editing the Bible, they were creating it. The early Church looked for consistency and eliminated the odd ones out.
You do a great job of explaining succinctly and clearly and making rather tedious (yet curious) topics plainly understood thanks for doing it and enlightening us while saving us so much time!
Congrats on reaching 100k! Here's to a 100K more!
ayy
Just finished my last exams and this was my dessert!! Wonderful job as always, I absolutely love the background music you put on these. I also like that you are making this more interactive with us. I can't decide between both of the books, so I'm going to flow with the majority
The book of Enoch always comes up in Ancient Aliens, always connecting the fallen angels as extraterrestrials. And history did one in the Gospel of Judas, really interesting and spiritual content. It would be great hear your take on these two books. Love this channel!
As an atheist myself, I do find your videos and commentary most informative! I've read many of the apocryphal texts and find them most interesting.
If you're atheist, why are you interested?
@@rizkiramadhan9266 It's like being interested in the Lord of the Rings.
My brother was an atheist also at one time & nobody could get through without ( biblically 12 Steping him, so I made a weed rolling tray with the tini centerfold of hometown hotties from F.HM. STUFF MAGAZINE & SHOWED HIM 187 REASONS THAT GOD EXSISTED & HIS LIFES BEEN THE BETTER FOR IT
Just look around Giueppe,,, you couldn't possibly have m8ssed it, you where probably just preoccupied with important life troubles & overlooked it until now
You should read the cannonical Bible
The book of Judith interests me a lot, since it was mentioned that she had a fundamentally different understanding of gods message.
Ah , yes Apocrypha. The book that contains the knowledge on how to beat an ancient Dragonborn and the MC is a tentacle monster.
If you get this reference, you are a true hero.
Is that an anime?
@@authorbhattacharjee4957
Skyrim
Hey you, you're finally awake.
Scrolled through about 100 comments and I finally found a Skyrim reference
the comment that I was looking for
I found your channel a day ago and spent the last couple hours binging your videos! You're a great creator. Very interesting. Maybe you could do a video about how certain "Christian" holidays were originally Pagan and the origins thereof?
I wish you the best, and you're a wonderfully intriguing creator :)
“-by feeding it enough cakes that it explodes.”
My real time reaction: “wat?????”
Love the choice of background music and your vocal tones. Thank you so much for creating these videos.
It is fantastic how you manage to concentrate such an amount of information in 9' minutes. Really appreciate it!
My friend, I have always found the book of enoch to be incredibly interesting. I would love to see you do a video on that subject!
I’m interested in the gospels of Mary and Enoch.
The Forgotten Books of Eden give an alternative story of the creation and the expulsion from the garden
The Gospel of Mary please. As hers is the only time I have ever been told about a female point of perspective! All of these books and there, fairly, untold stories are fascinating to me!! Good work again!
I'm really sorry about this, but this "gospel" is heresy. It was written in the third century, completely contradicts both the Old and New Testaments and was definitely made up by the author. Gnostics had a habit of taking random characters from the Bible and having Jesus tell them the "actual truth". The most common were Mary Magdalene and Judas.
I read the book of Enoch once (a long time ago) and the most remarkable stuff I remember is that he basically talked about evolution of species, and that there was something called "The Rage " (or idk, I read it in Spanish) that seemed to be above Satan; Satan talks to it and such and kinda does what it says. Or maybe I just had a crazy dream like John lol. Seriously though, I'm pretty sure I read that stuff.
Sometimes that kind of memory is given to you by a messenger. That's what your memory sounds like. It's confusing to explain. People are shown things, they know they saw it or heard it or whatever but can't exactly remember how. Dream visions are cool too. You have to be careful about who the messenger is though. The fallen angels did this to me as a child.
I saw truth through their eyes. It's not meant for humans to understand. I have biblical strength nightmares coming true these days and its not the way I expected at all. Like the giants that would chase me. I was scared sh.. to fall asleep every single night. It's real but I'm not going to be chased like they wanted me to think.
Looking forward to season 2! Would really be interested in hearing more about Gnostic Christians, since they seem to be really unorthodox an interesting. I would like to hear your take on the myth of Yaldabaoth and the Demiurge.
I also think it'd be interesting to here your take on William Blake and his art/poetry regarding the Red Dragon, Urizen, etc.
David fed the dragon so much that it exploded? Hmm I'm getting the old polish legend vibe when ,,Szewczyk Dratewka" or ,,Shoemaker Dratewka" made a fake sheep filled with sulfur as bait to a dragon that was ruining his kings castle, the dragon ate the sheep and he started to feel thirsty, he proceeded to drink the water from the river nearby, he was constantly drinking the water and then there was a very loud noise coming from the place where he was drinking the water. He drank so much that he exploded
That sounds horrifying for both sides
There's a Daniel story with a dragon too.
Man and I thought the star wars extended universe was big and full of controversy
Other people: I will slay the great dragon with my enchanted sword!
Daniel: Hey there fella, want some cake?
Alternate title: The first fanfiction
@@PeaceToTheUniverse proof
@@PeaceToTheUniverse wym people are dying for something they think is real so obviously there's at least some chance it's not real because there's no proof. There's also no proof that the "word of God" has been spoken, only people whom have claimed to have heard it
@@PeaceToTheUniverse are you Christian? If so then all the texts described are fiction to you.
@@PeaceToTheUniverse but you said this is not fiction. These books are not Christian canon and you can't believe in them. To you they are fiction.
There is no evidence that the word he spoke was truth. In fact there is no evidence he even said half the stuff he is claimed to. Historically they only verifiable fact about Jesus was that he existed and people followed him, the rest could be hog wash.
Many of these “apocryphal” books are (and always were) canon in Catholic and Orthodox bibles
But for Christians they don’t believe in those books because they are so far after the original books and are written with unknown authors they were deemed non canon to most theologians. I also believe they are non canon due to how long they came after the other books and by their authors
@@Arelius_02 many of the so called “apocryphal” were always part of Christianity because they were part of Judaism during Jesus' time.
Some books like Maccabees do take place after, but that's because there's a period of centuries between the Old and New Testament in Protestant Bibles were nothing happens, Catholic and Orthodox Bibles fill this void, and these more historical focused books are no different than Chronicles for example, no real reason to exclude them.
@@adrian7856 yea their is because during Maliki the Old Testament was completed n anything between him and Jesus is non biblically cannon because the Old Testament was complete and anything after or during Jesus is the New Testament adding false books after the Old Testament is wrong an shouldn’t be put inside of the Bible the Jews didn’t except them themselves and in the Dead Sea scrolls none of those books where added because they weren’t expected because those books contradict other books of the Old Testament or show false beliefs
@@Arelius_02 You are wrong, there are literal books of the Dead Sea Scrolls like Sirach, Tobit and Baruch not found in Protestant Bibles or Jewish Tanakh, but they are found in Catholic and Orthodox Bibles.
And who's Maliki?
@@adrian7856 sorry I meant Malachi stupid iPhone autocorrect who was the last of the minor prophets and is the last book of the Old Testament those apocrypha do not correlate with the rest of the Old Testament maccabees states you may pray for the dead while the Bible states Deuteronomy 18:9-12 states a consulter with familiar sports, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the lord Jews believed that the Bible doesn’t contradict itself and doesn’t have any contradictions inside of it either but adding those non biblical canon text contradicts the Bible after Malachi the Old Testament was complete and finished anything after between him and Jesus’s time is non canon because once Jesus is born the New Testament starts leaving no room for any other false texts
Would love a video about the story of Adam and Eve before all the translating and re-interpreting, and where Lilith fits into it.
Obviously your just making it up to sound erudite it you really wanted to know about Adam an Eve n Lilith before translations you would be you would be doing the searches on Google and in Greek or mebbe Hebrew. All english discussions of these manuscripts are by definition translations whut a maroon.
I'm fascinated by Enoch, having been raised Mormon. He shows up quite a bit in our Book of Moses.
That’s so interesting that this shows up in your books.
Might Have to compare what it says in ur book and what it says in our Bible and then they book of Enoch
Mormon is pure Blasphemous
Something I have always wondered is that is the apocrypha merely inconsistent accounts left out of the original Bible or are they accounts left out because the church couldn't use them to exercise their authority?
The Apocryphal books are only called that by protestants, they're canonical to Catholics and Eastern Orthodox.
The Gnostic gospels are a different group of books which were excluded because they were, in fact, the secret property of certain christian groups. They weren't included in the Bible because they weren't common knowledge.
When we're talking about the Old Testament apocrypha, we have a bit of a problem. The person in the video is using wrong terminology, the books like Tobit, Judith and 1 and 2 Maccabees were in the Bible since 300 BC, but Luther thought they were made up stories, so protestants don't have them, but both the catholic and orthodox churches treat them like any other books. That's why they are called deuterocanonical books, not apocrypha. The real Old Testament apocrypha like Enoch or Jubilees are just books written by Bible scholars that were never really aiming to be in the Bible, they were just interesting teachings claiming to be written by some important Old Testament character to be more popular. So those were either obviously not trying to be in the Bible or they were gotten rid of by Luther.
When it comes to New Testament apocrypha, the great majority are already too new to be in the Bible, being fifth-or-more-hand accounts of Jesus's life. Out of these you have those that simply collect tradition of questionable origin (Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, Acts of Peter), those that are made up "fanfiction" (Acts of Paul and Thecla, Infancy Gospel of James, Questions of Bartholomew) and those made up by gnostics (Gospel of Philip, Gospel of Mary, Gospel of Judas) that all follow a single theme: a person Jesus knew is told the "actual truth" by him, the apostles don't believe them and so the gnostics are better because all of Jesus's teachings were fake and only that one person was told the truth and only they know it. They are so obviously fake it's absurd. None of those three types of New Testament apocrypha were trustworthy enough to be put in the Bible. And then there are just some letters by early scholars and popes that easily could have been in the Bible but people just decided that they were just written too late. Nothing controversial about them, they just had to draw the line somewhere. So no, no books were excluded because christians didn't like them.
@@rafexrafexowski4754 it's nice to get an educated answer! Thanks for the info.
Dude you gotta do the book of Enoch, I’ve been studying it a lot lately and would love some of the insight that your videos bring!
Very interesting!! Let's see what more Season 2 has to offer :)
3:30 that story reminded me of polish Dragon of Wawel. The dragon was reigning terror over farmers and shepherds, so a shoemaker made a fakeout sheep, full of sulfur and pitch. After eating the sheep, the dragon got really thirsty and drank so much water it exploded. Maybe the polish legend was based off of this one?
I would like to hear more about Thomas. He seems to have been an interesting person.
I am so glad I came across your channel. I've been binging your videos for the last week. Thank you for making complex topics accessible to ordinary people like yours truly. Much appreciated!
I greatly enjoy the soothing nature in which you bring about your videos! Learnin more every day 👍🏻
The book of Judas, I’d like to know if he really was the bag guy or not.
He performed the will of God. Without his "betrayal", there'd be no crucifixion, therefore no Christianity. Judas is the good guy.
You can watch the "Gospel of Judas" documetary by NatGeo, find it on TH-cam, pretty interesting...
@@fromthemoonraccoon .Well said!!!
I suggest that you need to watch into another yt channel, religion for breakfast. The Book of Judas was explained there.
So...what we're getting is a Judas-Isacrot pov that didn't make the final draft 0f the BCU...yes🌝🌚💃
Thought this was gonna be about skyrim, but I still enjoyed this.
ROFL hee hee Me Too
The book of Judas sounds interesting, as well as the book of Thomas. It would be great to see videos from you about this two books.
I would love a video on the Book of Enoch!!! I always learn so much from your videos!
Have you read the books? There are actually 3, Enoch 1-3
Wonderful video. I've always thought myself an amateur theologist and I had no idea. Thank you for filling in the gaps to my knowledge, looking forward to learning more from you
A video on the Apocalypse of Peter would be fascinating. It describes what Heaven and Hell is like.
aren't some of these considered as "Deuterocanonical" in the Roman Catholic Bible
The Apocalypse of Peter would be a fun video imo
Love the overview, would like to see more on some of the mentioned texts. Great stuff, keep it up
Just found your channel and I love it! I do hope that you are still making new videos! Very interesting, educational, and entertaining!
I went to a Christian school, and man how cool it would of been to hear those stories and question the Canon of the Bible. Keep it up buddy. Gonna go watch the Lucifer one now lol.
true dat!
Welcome to factsverse, today were going to be talking about books that didn't make it into the Bible.
When you read the Bible you might think you're seeing everything but there are just some books that didn't make the cut.
Still very surprised that Harry Potter never made it into the bible, hindsight is 20/20 I suppose.
Were you trying to be funny or...?
@@ngl1553 What do you think, Jamir?
@@trillcollins7847 trying but failed. Better luck next time😉
@@ngl1553 57 people would disagree so Im gonna have to go ahead and ask you to sit down. Not my fault you're too smooth brained to understand a very obvious joke.
@@trillcollins7847 🤣okay. Take care
A video about the book of Enoch, the gospel of Mary and the gospel of judas look like they could be very helpful in our spiritual development my friend!
Can we get some more ciphers or mysteries like the one most of us came from (Ik I sound big headed)
Your work is amazing, I really loved the video about the true form of angels (aka demons, too) and I would love to hear you go more in-depth about the book of Enoch and the whole Watchers series ^^
Are you a graphic designer or die you collab with one? I want to see their personal work. Your videos look so contemporary, crisp and stylish.
TH-cam didn't notify me you were back, really like your videos. Keep up the incredible work!
All of have to say is, I found this very interesting and that the video was put together very well. Great work!
All of these books sound like someone's fanfiction
Both the Book of Enoch and the Gospel of Judas sound interesting. I've already subscribed. Please do both in turn. Great job.
I would very much like to learn more about The Book of Enoch. I first heard of it in a book called Uriel's Machine written by Lomas & Knight. Thanks for the videos. Jake
Hey, hey, I just subscribed!!! Just interacting with your page here. Seriously, I’m so glad I ran across your channel. I was raised southern Baptist, am now atheist, and am absolutely obsessed with Christian and Jewish religious studies. All religious studies, really. Anyhoo, I fucking love this, keep up the good work!!!
I've just stumbled across your channel. I'm not entirely sure how. LOL TH-cam is funny that way. But I wanted to thank you. This is exactly the kind of study I wanted to do when I was young, back before I gave up thoughts of the seminary to become a heathen. Reaching both into the original texts instead of our modern (mis)translations, as well as exciting new discoveries back then like the Dead Sea Scrolls and the books we hadn't heard about in mainstream, there was a lot to find fascinating for a teen diving deep enough to question everything about life, faith included, which started my research into all religions, not just Christianity. So this channel is both heart-warming nostalgia and just as intriguing today. Thanks! I wish more scholars would delve deep into these origins. Religion is a lot more interesting than churches give it credit for. LOL
Well this is a pleasant surprise. I wasn't expecting this for a while longer.
What are them ducks?
Can't way for the Mary standalone series coming to Disney+ in 2022
underrated comment
I want to learn the history of churches. Why do we have different religion with basically the same pattern but different in beliefs.
Some religions come from the same place
It might sound strange, but the Wikipedia articles are actually very thorough with the subject -- for example, the page for the Great Schism of 1054 (Catholic-Orthodox) is longer than the one for Hitler.
Keep in mind that every source you read will be biased in some way. It sounds like you're probably Protestant -- but most of the (reliable) sources for early Christianity are Catholic or Orthodox. Secular history can only get you so far since there's an unbroken tradition of writings passed on from the Apostles to the current Pope and Patriarchs. Those Church Fathers -- Ignatius of Antioch, Clement of Rome, Polycarp, Irenaeus, Chrysostom, Augustine -- are theologians in their own right and (in my opinion) should be at least respected by all denominations. If you've read the New Testament already, I'd recommend starting here if you want to learn about the Early Church (until 120AD):
List of Church Fathers: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Fathers
The Didache (early Christian writing, ~60AD): www.earlychristianwritings.com/didache.html
Portal for writings of the Church Fathers (Catholic source, some Protestant ones available for sale under the name "ante-Nicene fathers" but it's basically the same): www.newadvent.org/fathers/
From there, you can Ctrl+F the seven epistles of Ignatius of Antioch (early 2nd century), Clement of Rome's First Epistle (70 or 96AD), Polycarp's Epistle to the Philippians (mid-2nd century), Irenaeus' Adversus Haereses (Against Heresies, 180AD), and Eusebius' Church History (310s AD). Just make sure before you read something to make sure that it's genuine (not apocryphal).
If you're just looking for Protestant history, here's a TL;DR for all of the Wikipedia pages: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christianity_major_branches.svg
There are too many Protestant denominations to list in a TH-cam comment, so for each individual history I'd recommend looking up each one independently. Also, I'm sorry to any Restorationists or "Church in the Wilderness Baptists" out there, but your church's founding date is probably in the 19th-20th centuries, not in the 1st. Only the Catholic and Orthodox Churches have that claim. You can't magically not have the Church from the end of the 1st century to whenever your group was founded.
A year late, but I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to see more coverage of the biblical apocrypha
Amazing videos! Thanks and hope to see more of your content!
I see you have done this video on the Protestant Bible, not the earlier canon that the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Churches have as their core. This canon includes books such as Tobit, Judith, the addition of Bel and the Dragon to Daniel in chapter 14, etc. I just wanted to let everyone know not all of these are truly excluded from the Bible, it all depends on whether you have the Bible with the earlier canon, or the Bible with the canon following Martin Luther and other Protestant leaders removing some books from the official canon, subsequently moving them into a secondary canon called the Apocrypha, and eventually removing them altogether.
Doing God's work quite literally my man.
Divine inspiration or human pettiness?
it's a long road to the top if you wanna rock and roll