(October 24, 2012 at 10:24 pm)FallentoReason Wrote: But they are considered canonical, hence why the epistles I mentioned are in the Bible. Maybe you meant to say the Gnostic documents? I've read that they weren't accepted because they didn't focus on Jesus' "humanity" enough.
So, as usual, christians cherry pick the good bits from the bible and pretend the rest doesn't exist. Only in this case they literally denied that it was part of the bible, though I doubt it had much to do with whether the documents were accurate or not; in fact they may have been more accurate.