What do you think of the anti-biblical emphasis propagated through the media, for example the programmes/documentaries shown on National Geographic, History Channel, etc.?

This text is from a transcript of a talk by David Gooding, entitled ‘Documentary Evidence, Textual Criticism and Translation’ (2007).

The National Geographic to me is a magazine that has beautiful photography in it! But they had an edition that put forward the so-called Gospel of Judas in glowing terms and talked a lot of nonsense about it. Nowadays it has become a custom, with the Da Vinci Code and others, that the so-called Gnostic Gospels were genuine Gospels and the church didn't like them so they hid and suppressed them.

They are not genuine Gospels. They teach Gnosticism, which runs counter to the whole thrust of both Old Testament and New. Its modern equivalent would be Christian Science, for instance (Mary Baker Eddy)—who will tell you that when Jesus Christ said, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life,' he meant not that he himself was personally the way, the truth and the life, but the 'I' in every person is the way. That is sheer nonsense and it is not Christianity. And so the Gnostic Gospels circulated, but they weren't Christian. Though they sometimes go under the heading of being Christian, they go solidly against the basic doctrines of the Christian faith.