"I am not disputing that Christians forged texts that much is apparent from the historical sources , ( Archie 's obsession with theological sources is misguided here hence the comedy value of his posts , Does he really want me to slap him with the Mahabharata again ? The compilation is a historical event with specific characters , thus his vague theological link misses entirely . ) however that does not hold true for * all * the texts which have been omitted and the decisions were taken by individuals . Frankly I could n't give a rats arse about it , it 's an ancient historical footnote . However the amount of flak coming up from both ends of the religious spectrum does suggest I 'm onto something and their continued attempts to redirect to the canon would suggest that there & # 8217 ; s something in the omitted texts they 're uncomfortable with ."
"Personally , I do n't see what the big deal is . In my opinion ( as someone who has read a lot of the early church writings ) it is clear from writings of very early people like Clement , Ignatius , Justn Martyr , etc that what we consider orthodoxy was indeed orthodoxy from the get-go , and so it is only fair that they had some sense of wanting to keep out writings that they did n't consider accurate or genuine . People sometimes bring this us as if it indicates something bad about Christianity or early Christianity , but why should they have allowed writings into the canon that they considered spurious ? ( Now whether the canonical writings we have are spurious too is another debate -- the bottom line is that THEY -- the early Christians -- did n't feel at the time that the NT books in our canon were spurious for the most part . ) Now one of the things people will sometimes say is `` well , THOSE Christians won the day , and the Gnostics/Arians did n't , so there may have been gnostic or Arian writers that got suppressed so we do n't really know. `` Well , you could ALWAYS make that argument about ANYTHING . We do n't come to hard conclusions based on material for which we have no idea was there -- a speculative basis -- we come to hard conclusions based on what IS there . Sure , there 's a general understanding with history the winners write the history , but that does n't mean we go back and fill in blanks or overwrite what we accept with speculation ."
"there s something in the omitted texts they 're uncomfortable with ."
"why should they have allowed writings into the canon that they considered spurious ?"