Gregg Braden

Push the date back a thousand years.

In 45 and 46...

The oldest records of the New Testament and the texts that were excluded were discovered in a little village along the Nile in Egypt called Nag Hammadi.

Can I just tell?

It's a crazy story.

There's not much firewood.

along the Nile in Egypt.

And there was a woman who needed kindling to feed her family, to build the fires, to feed her family and heat their home.

And she told her son, go find some kindling.

And he was very resourceful.

There's no trees.

So he found an old tomb.

And in the tomb were clay vases, and he opened those vases, and there were documents that were very dry and brittle and made great kindling.

And we don't know how many were lost before the authorities were noted, but right now there are 13 bound.

They cooked a bunch of them?

They burned and they used them for fuel.

Oh, my God.

But here's what's left.

What's left, there were 13 bound books representing over 50 texts.

They were the oldest records of the New Testament, and they were the records that were excluded by the Catholic Church.