And Oh what a long path to nowhere it's been...
One "for instance" is the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas that was tossed by the roman catholics because it depicted a woman, Mary Magdalene as 'the favorite disciple' of Jesus. She went on to found a church to teach his wisdom after his crucifixtion.
Big problem. The romans weren't having anything to do with a woman holding a high rank in an influential body like a church of all places. So any reference to her was changed to depict her as either a lesser player or a whore. In actuality, many biblical scholars believe that "John" the curiously anonymous [of all the other disciples who come with lengthy pedigrees of who they were the son of] 'favorite' disciple is actually the cherry-picked words of Mary Magdalene.
Any Gnostic Gospel referring to Mary's importance in the church was simply buried and not included in the Bible. Which is a shame because it is these very texts that held some of the closest renditions of Jesus's actual teachings. But having lauded Mary, the baby was thrown out with the "bathwater". Also there are references to another disciple, Peter I believe, being rabidly jealous of Jesus's relationship with Mary. Some have speculated his jealousy was the start of the unravelling of the preservation of some of the oldest known testaments to Jesus' spoken word [as he never wrote books himself].
In fact, in either Thomas' or Phillip's Gospel (I forget which one) reference was made to an extensive and highly esoteric set of practices that Jesus had only confided in Mary...and then she to the rest of the disciples... but because it seemed foreign or weird to them, undoubtedly accentuated by the fact that it came from a woman's mouth, and one some of them were openly jealous of, they rejected it outright, much to her dismay. And it was mysteriously removed, in its entirety, from the texts in a very obvious and purposeful fashion.
Gone are all those intricate nuggets of wisdom that may have made the difference of night and day.
Many hands have torn apart the original teachings of Jesus. And those hands were none other than the hands of Satan working through "well meaning" men. Enjoy your "salvation". Have fun with your nukes and propagating the destruction of God's handiwork with your muddied interpretation of Revelations..
