Ever heard of the “lost,” “secret,” Gnostic or apocryphal Gospels? Don’t be fooled by sensationalist headlines that capitalize on conspiracy over actual documented history. Unlike the biblical Gospels which all have a direct chain of custody with the earliest Jesus community, these other groups appropriated Jesus in later centuries with no credible connection to Jesus or his followers. The Gnostics, Docetics, Ebionites, Basilidians, Valentinians, Manichaes, Marcionites, etc., who were removed fr