Early Christians LOVED it. The Church CUT It From the Canon.

What is the Apocalypse of Peter? In 1886, French archaeologists found something shocking in an Egyptian monk's tomb: a book that was read like Scripture for centuries but never made it into your New Testament. The Apocalypse of Peter contains the most graphic descriptions of hell in early Christian literature—descriptions that influenced Dante's Inferno 1,200 years later. Why did early Christians love this book? Why was it buried alongside the Gospel of Peter? And why did it eventually get rejected from the biblical canon? In this video, I explore: The 1886 archaeological discovery in Egypt What made the Apocalypse of Peter so popular (2nd-4th centuries) The GRAPHIC hell descriptions that shocked early readers Why it appears in the Muratorian Fragment (early canon list) The docetic and universalist ideas that got it rejected How it influenced later Christian thought about the afterlife ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Substack - https://substack.com/@cjcornthwaite Patreon -   / footnotefamous   📱 FOLLOW FOR MORE YouTube: @cjcornthwaite Instagram: @cjcornthwaite Website: cjcornthwaite.com Email: [email protected] 🎙️ FOOTNOTE FAMOUS (MY PODCAST) Conversations with the world’s top scholars of the Bible and Christian origins. 🔗https://www.footnotefamous.com/ OR Listen on your favorite streaming platform ᯤ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4lSzQzT... Apple Music - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Audible - https://www.audible.ca/podcast/Footno... SUPPORT THE CHANNEL YouTube Memberships - C. J. Cornthwaite - YouTube Book a 1:1 Conversation With Me: https://www.cjcornthwaite.com/book-on... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 - What Is the Apocalypse of Peter? 1:41 - How Popular Was the Apocalypse of Peter? 3:41 - Hell Descriptions in the Apocalypse of Peter 6:43 - Why Was the Apocalypse of Peter Rejected? 10:25 - How the Apocalypse of Peter Influenced the New Testament