mckinley: I'm now starting to understand what (V) means when he says he wants nothing to do with organized religion. I believe what he is refering to is what are called the gnostic gospels.

This takes me back to over 40 years ago, when I lived in a town that went nuts over any new age fad... I'm not kidding, incense and crystals, drugs for "expanding the mind", but in reality served more to "expend the mind". I saw first hand what happened to some of those folks, and it wasn't pretty. I could go on and on about some of the cults there. The moonies were on a roll, signing up people left and right. My wife and I went to one of their meetings, and it didn't take long for us to figure out what was really going on. Shortly after the meeting started the moonies started pressuring people into signing contracts. They had pictures on the wall of Jesus and Buda and other pictures representing other religions... we left when their salesmen started passing out the contracts.

Anyway, I think what (V) is talking about are gospels that either have little or no validity, or are invented imitations based on how the four gospels you already know about appear to be written. There is even a gospel of judas... that was my first clue that something wasn't right. The Gospel of Judas has been called an "authentic fabrication", because it has some of the earmarks of a regular gospel.