64311.1 Endnotes

Why Aren’t Gnostic Gospels in the New Testament?

  1. John McManners, ed., The Oxford History of Christianity (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 28.
  2. Darrell L. Bock, Breaking the Da Vinci Code (Nashville: Nelson, 2004), 114.
  3. Bock, 119-120.
  4. Ibid.,13.
  5. Norman Geisler and Ron Brooks, When Skeptics Ask (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1998), 156.
  6. Quoted in Robinson, 126.
  7. Quoted in Lutzer, 32.
  8. Quoted in Josh McDowell, The New Evidence that Demands a Verdict (San Bernardino, CA: Here’s Life, 1999, 37.)
  9. Acts 13:1-3, 33.
  10. Gospel of Barnabas, 94:1.
  11. John 1:1-3, 14. NIV [See http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%201:1-14&version=NIV].
  12. Norman Geisler & Abdul Saleeb, Answering Islam (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2002), 303-307.
  13. Geisler & Saleeb, Ibid.
  14. Geisler & Saleeb, Ibid.
  15. J. Slomp, “The Gospel Dispute,” ochristiana, 68.
  16. Norman L. Geisler and Paul K. Hoffman, eds., Why I Am a Christian (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2001), 150.
  17. William F. Albright, “Toward A More Conservative View,” Christianity Today, January 18, 1993.
  18. This early reference might have been to one of the other books named after the apostle Barnabas: the Epistle of Barnabas or the Acts of Barnabas. Scholars question that it refers to the Gospel of Barnabas because there is no other historical document supporting it.
  19. Geisler & Saleeb, Ibid.
  20.  Josh McDowell, The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1999), 33–68 
  21.  Paul Johnson, “A Historian Looks At Jesus,” Speech to Dallas Theological Seminary, 1986.
  22. William F. Albright, “Toward A More Conservative View,” Christianity Today, January 18, 1993.
  23.  Luke 1:1-4, NLT.