The Four Gospels were not known to the early Christian Fathers. Justin Martyr, the most eminent of the early Fathers, wrote about the middle of the second century. His writings in proof of the divinity of Christ demanded the use of these Gospels had they existed in his time. He makes more than three hundred quotations from the books of the Old Testament, and nearly one hundred from the Apocryphal books of the New Testament; but none from the Four Gospels. The Rev. Dr. Giles says: "The very names of the Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, are never mentioned by him [Justin] -- do not occur once in all his writings" (Christian Records, p. 71)
There are many extant writings accredited to the Apostolic Fathers, Clement of Rome, Barnabas, Hermas, Ignatius, and Polycarp. These writings contain no mention of the Four Gospels. This also is admitted by Christian scholars. Dr. Dodwell says: "We have at this day certain most authentic ecclesiastical writers of the times, as Clemens Romanus, Barnabas, Hermas, Ignatius, and Polycarp, who wrote in the order wherein I have named them, and after all the writers of the New Testament. But in Hermas you will not find one passage or any mention of the New Testament, nor in all the rest is any one of the Evangelists named" (Dissertations upon Irenaeus).Tlosophy.
It has been written that never has a book been read so often but examined so infrequently. Many like to say that the four Gospels were written around`70 Ad. Gospel of the Nazoreans was quoted by Ignatious in 98 A.D. and so was written prior to this date and was associated with the early Nazoreans. The Stichometry of Nicephorus assigns it 2,200 lines, 300 less than Matthew. (this may not have been the original Gospel of the Nazoreans however). Various old references to the Nazorean/Hebrew Gospel sometimes lead researches to think that there were four different Gospels but it is more likely that one document was the source of a score of others
"Is it possible seriously to maintain that there were two separate documents, each of them written at Jerusalem during the Apostolic age and in the Hebrew tongue, each of them assigned to the Apostle Matthew, and each of them dealing in some way with the Gospel story? Or are we not rather forced to the conclusion that these two documents, whose descriptions are so strangely similar, must really be identical,..". (A. S. Barnes; the Gospel according to the Hebrews; Journal of Theological Studies 6 (1905) p. 361
LITERARY DNA TEST ALSO SUPPORTS THE ONE DOCUMENT Theory. Open-minded biblical scholars in today’s world continue to seek for the ancient “Q Document” of Christianity’s New Testament. The Q Document is known by biblical scholars to be the source of the Bible’s New Testament. True biblical scholars, who have devoted their lives to studying the Bible with an open mind, concluded long ago, that the descriptions of Jesus’ life and teachings by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were so similar, that there had to be one source document that was used to “write” their “Gospels”. Biblical scholars have for years called this missing link to the New Testament, the “Q Document”.
The “Q Document” was used by the Roman Emperor Constantine to devise his Roman Universal Church. The Q Document was decreed by Constantine to be the document from which 4th century Roman writers would write the Gospels of the New Testament, accredited to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Only those sayings and teachings of Jesus, specifically approved by Emperor Constantine, were included in the “Q Document” and the New Testament of today’s Bible.
The Q Document did contain some truths of Jesus’ life, but it was specifically written with many untruths, omissions and deliberate mistranslations. Even worse, the words of Saul/Paul were used extensively in Constantine’s New Testament. Saul/Paul never met Jesus in person. Saul/Paul’s only experience with Jesus was when Saul/Paul had a vision over his persecution of those individuals who were following Jesus’ liberal philosophy and performing Jesus’ spiritual techniques.
“Early church father Eusebius, who, in a rare moment of seeming honesty, "admitted...that the canonical Christian gospels and epistles were the ancient writings of the Essenes reproduced in the name of Jesus.Well known biblical scholar Taylor also opines that "the travelling Egyptian Therapeuts brought the whole story from India to their monasteries in Egypt, where, some time after the commencement of the Roman monarchy, it was transmuted in Christianity." In addition, Wheless evinces that one can find much of the fable of "Jesus Christ" in the Book of Enoch, which predated the supposed advent of the Jewish master by hundreds of years. According to Massey, it was the "pagan" Gnostics--who included members of the, Essene/Therapeut and Nazarene brotherhoods among others--who actually carried to Rome the esoteric (gnostic) texts containing the Mythos, upon which the numerous gospels, including the canonical four, were based. Wheless says, "Obviously, the Gospels and other New Testament booklets, written in Greek and quoting 300 times the Greek Septuagint, and several Greek Pagan authors, as Aratus, and Cleanthes, were written, not by illiterate Jewish peasants, but by Greek-speaking ex-Pagan Fathers and priests far from the Holy Land of the Jews." Mead averred, "We thus conclude that the autographs of our four Gospels were most probably written in Egypt, in the reign of Hadrian." .
Rene Descartes once said that if you begin with doubt you will end with certainties.and if you begin with certainties you will end in doubt. I read this years ago and thought the whole concept preposterous and foolish. Now, I believe it to be more than just a theory since the most recent gospels were discovered in Egypt and many feel that the Gospel of the Essenes were the original “Q” Testament in which the four gospels were derived.
The Roman Church created a history of the triumph over Essenic Apostle Christianity in much the same partisan way that, two millennia later, Hollywood created
Tales of “cowboys and Indians” to relate “how the West was won” not “how
The West was lost.” History is not simply related, it is created . All too often . it
Is simply [used] to glorify and justify the status quo. Such histories conceal
As much as they reveal.
And so it was that the Roman Emperor Constantine devised a male-dominated religion, which he called the Roman Universal Church, using fear to control people and giving people only the weakest portions of Jesus’ spiritual teachings. In this manner, the God-loving philosophy of Jesus, together with his spiritual wisdom and energetic techniques for Enlightenment, were deliberately weakened, or completely omitted from the New Testament, so Rome could continue its economic control of the world using the God-fearing philosophy of the Roman Empire’s Universal Church.
And so it was that many devious methods were used by the Roman Empire’s Universal Church to greatly modify and lessen the wonder-filled life history of the man who became a Christ. In this way, most of Jesus’ life, (called the missing years), were omitted from the Roman Empire Church’s New Testament. Christianity has been so spiritually weakened in today’s world that only one or two people, (out of 2 billion “Christians”), in a generation are able to attain Enlightenment in their lifetime. Yet, as seen in ancient paintings, using Jesus’ true teachings and techniques, most of his disciples and students, reached Enlightenment in that one lifetime.
A contemporary said: We have proved again and again, the writings are not the production of Christ or of His apostles, but a compilation of rumors and beliefs, made, long after their departure, by some obscure semi-Jews, not in harmony even with one another, and published by them under the name of the apostles, or of those considered the followers of the apostles, so as to give the appearance of apostolic authority to all these blunders and falsehoods." (Faustus, Contra Faustu
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