Originally Posted by /^Blackmagik^\
you forget the gospels that were left out of the bible because they were conflicting. have you ever read the gospel of thomas? it puts a interesting spin on christ's divinity, or lack there of. or the recently uncovered gospel of mary magdeline?
In asking about those works, you also define why they are not gospels.
Recently discovered = recently
written, relatively.
You can't just throw things out there for the sake of sensationalism, without knowing anything about Christianity or the people who were involved in the gospels.
Even the vaunted Dead Sea Scrolls are suspect. People enjoy very much pointing out the little differences between the scrolls and other early works; however, in many cases the majority of ancient works contradict the scrolls.
Have you ever stopped to wonder why the Dead Sea Scrolls were found where they were? Those caves were the hideouts of criminals and weird religious cults. There was a reason why they were not a part of the normal societies of the region, whether Hellenic, Roman or Jewish.
Who knows what weird ideas developed, and what mistakes were made in transcribing documents, in those dark days in the caves, secluded and away from the students of Christ's apostles?
As for your attack on Christ's dual nature and divinity, it is patently illogical and contradicted in many works...assuming you accept the possibility that a Christ can exist at all.
In order to do what Christ did, he had to sin and die. He therefore had to be fully Man.
In order to do what Christ did, face Hell on our behalf, he also had to be fully God.
Heresies involving the dual nature of Christ were among the very first things that the apostles themselves, and the early fathers had to deal with. We dealt with it and put it out of the way within the first couple of hundred years of the faith's existence, and it was later affirmed by the councils called by Constantine I (Ever August).