Aired: March 15, 2008 on BBC 2

Anglican priest Peter Owen Jones explores the huge number of ancient Christian texts that didn't make it into the New Testament.

Pete travels through Egypt and the former Roman Empire looking at the evidence of a Christian world very different to the one we know, and finds over seventy gospels, acts, letters and apocalypses all circulating in the early Church.

Shocking and challenging to Christianity today, these were works in which Jesus didn't die, took revenge on his enemies and kissed Mary Magdalene on the mouth. These were the Gospels that were circulated in the ancient world and taken as seriously as today's Christians take the books of the Bible which was voted on by the Church elders. Christians for the most part have no idea how their religion originated, who shaped it and who controlled it. If Christians had their mind open as most of them claim they do, they'd be able to comprehend that their faith is nothing but faith and believing the Bible is infallible word of god is a rather tricky proposition. Believing the Bible is kind of like basing your life on a "Spideman" comic in our opinion.

"It's not a lie if you believe it" - George Castanza, "Seinfeld"