The Lost Gospels

Dozens of CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES were Holy Writ, then heresy, then forgotten. Why are we looking at them again?

The Cross talked. And walked. Jesus had died the day before, uttering his last words: "My power, O power, you have left me behind!" His body was taken down and placed in the tomb. But now, as the Sabbath dawned, a great voice came from the sky, and two men descended. The stone blocking the tomb rolled away of its own accord, and while Roman soldiers gaped, "three men emerge[d] from the tomb, two of them supporting the other, with a Cross following behind. The heads of the two reached up to the sky, but the head of the one they...

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