An Introduction
Human history has allowed precious few ancient religious writings to survive
the onslaught of the more aggressive and powerful religious forces, which seek
only to gain territory and wealth. Genocide and cultural eradication always go
hand in hand with missionary zeal. In many cases every trace of the conquered
society's religious writings, practices, icons, and even buildings were
destroyed, in the name of conversion from worship of gods considered evil, and
religious customs labeled as heresies. What generally results from past crusades
is the conqueror's religion replacing or predominantly blending with the
conquered culture's former religious practice, making the its religion almost
unrecognizable. Christianity falls into the latter category, having been the
victim of the Roman Empire, under the Emperor Constantine, who blended the
Christian Church with the institutionalized "pagan" practices of Rome and
eliminated any semblance of either the Jewish religious influence or the first
church Jesus established during his ministry.
The First Reformation
After solidifying his position to gain complete control of the western
portion of the empire in 312, the Emperor Constantine instituted the Edict of
Milan, a "Magna Carta of religious liberty," which eventually changed the
Empire’s religion and put Christianity on an equal footing with paganism. Almost
overnight the position of the Christian Church was reversed from persecuted to
legal and accepted. Constantine began to rely on the church for support, and it
on him for protection. The Church and the Empire formed an alliance, which
remains to this day. Very rapidly, the laws and policies of the Empire and the
doctrine of the Church became one with Constantine as the interpreter of both
law and policy. This was accomplished by eliminating hundreds of books thought
to be against "Church" doctrine and watering down what remained by blending
Christian beliefs and practice with long established Roman sanctioned pagan
worship.
Constantine
believed that the Church and the State should be as close as possible.
Constantine tolerated pagan practices, keeping pagan gods on coins and retaining
his pagan high priest title "Pontifex Maximus" in order to maintain popularity
with his former subjects. In 330 he began an assault on paganism but used a
clever method of persuasion to force people to follow the laws by combining
pagan worship with Christianity. He made December 25th, the birthday of the
pagan Unconquered Sun god, the official holiday now celebrated as the birthday
of Jesus. He also replaced the weekly day of worship by making rest on Saturday
unlawful and forcing the new religion to honor the first, not the seventh day,
as a day of rest. As a way of defining his concept of the new universal religion
he simply classified everything "Jewish" to be an abomination. Considering
almost every aspect of the Bible is "Jewish" by association, every doctrinal
biblical principle was changed or eliminated. After 337 Constantine increased
his purging of the more obvious aspects of paganism.
Through a
series of Universal Councils, he and his successors completely altered doctrine
without regard to biblical edict, set up a church hierarchy of his own design,
and established a set of beliefs and practices, which are the basis for all
mainstream Bible-based churches. The separation of the Protestants and the Roman
Church caused a physical split but the beliefs and practices established by
Constantine remained almost identical. Very little has changed since the 4th
century Councils changed the face of Christianity. An effective practice
instituted was the purging of any book in the formerly accepted biblical works,
over 80% of the total, that church leaders felt did not fit within their new
concept of Christianity. The doctrines and practices remaining in the surviving
books were effectively eradicated by simply changing them by replacing clear
scripture with Church-sanctioned doctrine.
Forbidden Not Lost
Constantine began what was to become a centuries long effort to eliminate
any book in the original Bible that was considered unacceptable to the new
doctrine of the church. At that time, it is believed there were up to 600 books,
which comprised the work we now know as the Bible. Through a series of decisions
made by the early church leadership, all but 80 of those books, known as the
King James Translation of 1611, were purged from the work, with a further
reduction by the Protestant Reformation bringing the number to 66 in the
"Authorized" King James Bible.
What we now have in Bible-based religion, whether labeled as "Catholic", or
Protesting Catholic, known as “Protestant", is unrecognizable form either the
Hebrew religion, now known as the Jewish religion, or the church established at
Jerusalem by the Apostles and disciples of Jesus. The practices of this first
church are not practiced by any major religion and they are almost unknown,
despite being clearly outlined in the existing New Testament. In its place are
doctrines and practices first established in the first "true" Reformation of
Christianity begun by Constantine.
There is
much controversy over how many books the Bible should actually contain but
considering the depth and scope of those few works remaining in the "accepted"
Bible, we see but a fragment of incredible wisdom and history. A study of the
Lost Books of the Bible is incomplete without a clear understanding that this is
not a matter of simple loss, but a campaign by the Roman Catholic Church to
purge books variously classified as heretical, dangerous, and corruptive. To the
public they are “lost”; to the Church they are “forbidden”. Although the exact
number of books purged is known only to the Church, and not shared knowledge,
some can be determined by the discovery of their presence in the church prior to
the reformation resulting in what became known as the Roman "Universal" Church.
One of the more obvious forms of discovery comes from the surviving books
themselves, which sight works not present in the existing collection. Also many
do not know that the Apocryphal books were actually included in the King James
translation until they were officially purged by the Archbishop of Canterbury in
1885. Other
writings also connect many books to the first church. Whatever the number before the
purge by the formation of Catholicism by Constantine; even one lost book is a
great loss indeed.
We claim no expertise concerning the authenticity of any the lost
books and leave this judgment to the reader. We do, however, strongly reject the
self-proclaimed authority of any dogmatically motivated and church-controlled
mortals who think themselves qualified to make such decisions. One of the most
logical and realistic concepts in the Bible is the caution that one should prove
all things. We believe that proving the veracity of a given thing is an
individual responsibility, which must not, and should not be the duty of those
who think themselves better judges.
This section is divided into the following
categories:
The Apocryphal, Or Deuterocanonical Books
The 15 books, known as the Apocrypha, were
not officially removed from the
English printings of the
King James Bible
until 1885
by the Archbishop of Canterbury, leaving
only 66 books from the original 81.
The Real New
Testament
The books of the
New Testament of the Bible were
chosen by one man who was a servant of the Emperor Constantine and did that
choosing to satisfy Constantine's agenda to completely reform early
Christianity.
Books Mentioned But
Not Found
Besides the Apocryphal books eliminated from the Bible
used by Protestant Church
there are, at least, 28 other books mentioned in scripture, which do not appear in
the Bible.
Books Removed From, Or
Associated With, The Bible
The known books believed to have
been removed from the original collection.
Books
On This Site
The Lost Books that appear in their entirety on this site.
Anomalies In The Apocryphal Books
The anomalies connecting the
Apocrypha to
the Authorized King James Bible and the
advanced technology of the Elohiym.
Anomalies In
The Lost Books
The Lost Books of the Bible contain the
same aerial anomalies, beings and people
flying up into the sky, and enigmatic
events as the King James Bible.
Anomalies In
The Lost Books
The anomalies found in the lost books by category
The Lost Books of the
Bible and The Forgotten Books of Eden
A book with 56 of the the lost books and
letters.
The
Translator's Preface
A preface written by the translators.
The
Epistle Dedicatory
A dedication letter from the original King
James Bible.
