⭐ Catholic Star Rating Review:
★★★☆☆ – The Forbidden Gospels and Epistles is a collection of apocryphal writings that claim to fill in details of Christ’s life and the Apostles’ work but were never recognized as inspired Scripture by the Catholic Church.
While historically intriguing, these writings often contain doctrinal errors, legendary embellishments, or theological perspectives inconsistent with the deposit of faith. From a Catholic perspective, they are valuable for understanding early Christian culture and the reasons the Church, guided by the Holy Spirit, preserved only the authentic Gospels and Epistles in the canon.
Read with discernment, they can deepen one’s appreciation for the Church’s safeguarding of truth.
📖 Description:
The Forbidden Gospels and Epistles presents a series of early Christian writings excluded from the Bible’s canon. These apocryphal texts—ranging from infancy gospels to letters attributed to the Apostles—offer colorful, sometimes pious, and at times problematic portrayals of the life of Christ and His disciples.
The Catholic Church, through centuries of discernment, recognized the true inspired books and rejected these for their questionable origins, theological inconsistencies, or late authorship.
For Catholic listeners, this audiobook serves as a historical window into the diversity of early Christian writings and a reminder of the Church’s divine authority to preserve the integrity of the Word of God.