Evidence for God from Science

SELECTION: The Gospels included in the Bible were selected by a "select" few who identifies which should be included and not in the Bible. Given the fact that the writers of the four Gospels (Mark, Matthew, Luke, John) where not even first hand informations, why should they be trusted over...

Gnostics may not have been executed during that time but they were persecuted later on. Can you please identify the "apostolic lineage" of the four NT gospels compared to the gnostics? I would like to hear this. Nobody has seen that epistle outside the monastary because it was taken out an...

I don't know where I learned them but correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Irenaus, Bishop Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian and Hippolytus attacked the Gnostics and branded them heretical? And wasn't heresy punishable by death then? The Secret Gospel of Mark...I've read from the "heretical"...

Or a more curious (possibly naive) question would be, is it possible that Jesus did write his own teachings but it was destroyed?

I think we also have to accept that the Church (Orthodox or the Roman Catholic) indeed tried to hide things from the common laity. I mean, didn't they burn and destroy the other gospels they see unfit to be included in the Bible? And didn't they persecute and execute those who preach those they call...

Just how reliable is the Bible giving it's history of selection, edition, contradictions, etc...not to mention the history of the Church with it's persecution and politics.

Please enlighten.

I am quite curious with these contradictions myself. It made me feel that the Bible isn't perfect as what others want me to believe being the "word of God".