re: #251 Colère Tueur de Lapin

The bible has an agenda as assembled. Revelation helped advance it, the Apochrypha and Gnostics, not so much. Knowledge and questioning is bad, ya know.

In my study, it was less that than the fact that apocalyptic literature has always been popular (see Daniel) and was very popular at the time the Canon was finalized. They needed an apocalypse and John’s was the least insane of the ones available at the time.

The battle over the gnostics and their hidden knowledge theme had already been fought and won by those who did not see Christianity (right or wrong) as just another mystery religion ala Mithras or the Bacchanalia despite the mythic level similarities between the three.

I’m just glad that the old synagogue sermon that was ascribed to James the Just was included in the final canon of the Bible. Lots of good bits therein.