Against the Four Gospels

You were told there were four gospels. You were told they were written by eyewitnesses — Matthew the tax collector, Mark the companion of Peter, Luke the physician, John the beloved disciple. You were told they were composed in the first century, within living memory of Jesus, and that they independently confirmed one another.

Every one of those claims is a lie.

The four canonical gospels are anonymous. They contradict each other on nearly every major event. They were not written by the men whose names are attached to them. They were composed decades after the events they describe, by authors who never met Jesus, working from earlier sources — sources they edited, expanded, and in many cases fabricated outright to serve theological agendas that had nothing to do with the Gospel Paul preached.

And there is a gospel older than all four of them. It was not hidden. It was not lost. It was deliberately suppressed. That gospel is the Evangelion — the gospel Marcion of Sinope brought to Rome in 144 AD, the gospel Paul called "my gospel," the gospel that modern scholarship is now recognizing as the source document behind Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

This five-part sermon dismantles the canonical four and makes the case — historically, textually, and theologically — that the Evangelion is the oldest written account of the Gospel of Christ, and that the four you were given are its corruptions.