The Bible was written by minds reported to to have been divinely guided by God. The records they used were ancient and pieced together evidences, scrolls saved in clay jars in caves, from a much earlier time. The original documents had been copied and recopied over time and the stories were pieced, and sometimes argued over, and reconfigured.
The goal of the authors was to preserve this important knowledge about the love of God. They probably worried about ideas of faith changing, and so they worked to reinforce the laws, rules, and continuity of all these scriptures pieced together.
Pieces that did not contain information that supported their streamlined version of the story they wanted to preserve were dropped and some are still obscurely available if you want to search for them. Even today there are scholars holding on to fragments of scrolls not yet pieced together. Some are very protective of their scraps and, for various reasons, are not willing to work with other scholars to resolve the meanings that might be contained in these puzzle pieces.
For example, there is a whole section of these excluded ancient scroll pieces that speaks of "children of the light" and "children of the dark". There are pieces where it is presumed Jesus was speaking about practical matters around health issues that are not included in the Bible. Likely there are countless lost and hidden details we still do not fully grasp. Now there is a revealed section of scroll where Jesus talks about his wife and how she would also be one of the Disciples. When discussing this with one of my daughters, she said it was like looking for dinosaur bones and trying to make sense of the few pieces available!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/18/the-gospel-of-jesus-wife-_n_1891325.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
The article stated that the parchment appears to be genuine, however, not penned in the life-time of Jesus. Like the Dead Sea Scrolls, these bits of information can have come back to us from a mysterious past. What makes the Bible "hold water" with most Christians is their faith that the Bible holds the truth. The Bible does not state that Jesus was never married, though, and Christians will say that if it goes against the teachings in the Bible, they will not accept it. So how this possibility might alter the views of various Christians will prove interesting. This revelation bring more questions than answers, just like the recent discovery of flying dinosaurs found in Asia... with not 2 wings... but 4! Digging for the truth of scripture and prehistoric life seems to just grow a greater and more surprising curious mystery.
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