Mark Gagnon

And we'll just kind of pull them back to our library and be able to just reference them.

But they never went back.

Maybe the monks died.

Maybe they forgot.

Maybe they got persecuted.

No one really knows.

But either way, the jar sat there.

Across all these empires, the Roman Empire came and it went.

Islam rose and swept through Egypt, the Crusades, two world wars.

And for 1600 years, the jars sat in the same exact spot, hiding in the darkness, hiding this heretical secret version of Christianity that no one had ever seen since they buried them until a man,

with blood on his hands, ultimately, when looking for fertilizer.

Today, the Nag Hammadi texts are in the Coptic Museum in Cairo, but their discovery did something that kind of changed how many people feel about the early church.

It destroyed...

Kind of this, you know, linear thought of, you know, a completely uncontested original Christianity.

Before 1945, we only knew about the Gnostics because their enemies would write about them.

So people that oppose the Gnostics, many of the church fathers would say that, you know, these Gnostics are crazy.

They say this, but that's BS because we believe this.

You know, it's like trying to understand a person by only reading, you know, what their opponents are like, you know, what their ops would write about them.

But now we actually have the text themselves.

We actually know what these early Gnostic thinkers would actually say.