Why do you think soo many people wrote false Gospels at the time the Gospels were written?

....Why do you think soo many people wrote false Gospels at the time the Gospels were written?
Your question should be broken into two parts.





Why did so many people wrote false Gospels?





At what time were the Gospels written?





The original Gospels were written during the Apostolic age, the false Gospels were written afterward.





That leaves us with the why. During the time of the Apostles and afterward there was a group called Gnostics. The Gnostics havd a habit of taking existing religions and recreating them in their own image. Taking a popular set of beliefs and stealing the name was a great marketing tool. Others like the religion but wanted to remake in in their own image.Why do you think soo many people wrote false Gospels at the time the Gospels were written?
I think that they did really. It was more like oral tradition for a while. mark didn't write his until well over 10 years after the Ascension. Probably up to that point, everyone thought Jesus was going to return quicker than that. After the temple was destroyed, any manuscript was probably confiscated, destroyed and the people caught with them were put to death. This went on for 3 or 4 hundred years.





so there was lots of people who just told the story orally. Some of it may have gotten out of proportion, but sure some are awesomely interesting, and beyond comprehension really. But great things were happening and anything was possible. The dead were raise to life, the ill made better...all kinds of things were still occurring to edify the people.





Sadly, the gnostic gospels weren't dated to that era, but just shortly afterwards, so the church could not officially authenticate them, and some prudish monk thought them a fabrication of a fevered mind.
Because the false ';gospels'; were inspired by Satan, who has been a liar and a murderer from the beginning of time.





EDIT: LOL @ Prometheus ... that's BLATENTLY and DEMONSTRABLY FALSE. We still have manuscripts written by the students of the Apostles, as well as other VERY early manuscripts. These all attest to who wrote the Gospels -- the Apostles Matthew and John, and disciples Mark (who wrote for Peter) and Luke.





Nice try, but I'm far too educated to be confused by those lies.
2pe 2:1 But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. 2pe 2:2 And many shall follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of.





Satan knew he had been defeated by Jesus Christ, so he sowed bad seed in the Lord's fields. He wants to make the truth look bad.
All gospels are considered to be pseudonymous by biblical scholars, including the four in the canon. They wrote under names which lent some authority to what they were trying to say.
they were just following the fad :]


same as why everybody bought an ipod


and why everybody wears the same brand of clothing times change





fads adapt.
Because when they were written, they weren't false until an organized religion and not God passed judgment on them.
Because they realized that religion is the most effective tool to control a population, and so they tried a bunch of things out before one caught on.
I don't think they were false, I think people had different perspectives on who Jesus was and what his message was.
People write things that are false now. Have you ever heard of Kent Hovind?
It's the Neon Bible... Neon Bible... Not much chance for survival if the Neon bible is right.
You are too ignorant to know you are mocking God.





Bites to be you.
why can't we read them all?