Why ‘Lost’ Gospels Go Viral—and the Real Ones Don’t: Reviewing ‘The Genuine Jesus and the Counterfeit Christs’ by Simon Gathercole

“There’s nothing wrong with being intrigued by lost gospels…. But we always have to make sure we aren’t studying any gospel—including the canonical gospels—merely to satisfy or justify our preexisting preferences about the way we want Jesus to be. We don’t simply get to create the Jesus we like or the Jesus we prefer.” - TGC