Are the Nag Hammadi and Lut Lake documents (gospels) true, or did somebody make them up to confuse the believers? If they are true, do they contradict with the Bible we read? -- Sezar (Turkey)
The Nag Hammadi texts, rediscovered in modern times only in Egypt in 1945, shed light on some of the unusual directions in which Christianity developed in the centuries following Christ. When I was in graduate school, one of my professors, George MacRae, was a world renowned expert on these texts and spoke of them often.
Visit the Harvard Divinity School to view the writings of George MacRae.
First, it should be noted that if you want to become familiar with these documents, you can easily find them online. For example, www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl.html. Yet these writings are products of Gnosticism's heretical variation on biblical Christianity. No, they are not 'true,' though of course they contain some truth. (After all, nearly everything humans have written through the millennia contains some truth!) For more on Gnosticism, please see other entries at this website. The Nag Hammadi texts are certainly not orthodox. They are heterodox.
I am sorry; I am not familiar with the Lut Lake documents, though I did find this link on the IslamiCity.com. Since I am not familiar with this--no comment! There are many thousands of documents from ancient times which claim to refer to biblical events. All should be taken with a grain of salt.
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