The Bible's Buried Secrets (Awesome NOVA Documentary!)

Key Highlights:

-Judaism did not start out as a monotheistic religion. Numerous archaeological finds suggest that it was very pagan early on. Only after the Babylonian exile did it become purely monotheistic.

-The earliest figure in the bible that can be confirmed as actually existing is King David, circa 1,000-900 B.C.

-The oldest existing fragments of the bible (old testament) have been dated to the 7th century B.C.

Educational and informative.

How old's The Book of Enoch? Or The Gospel of Thomas?

About Enoch:

The Book of Enoch (also 1 Enoch) is an ancient Jewish religious work, ascribed to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah. It is not regarded as scripture by Jews or any Christian group, apart from the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, which to this day regards it to be canonical.

Western scholars currently assert that its older sections (mainly in the Book of the Watchers) date from about 300 BC and the latest part (Book of Parables) probably was composed at the end of the 1st century BC. However, Ethiopian scholars generally hold that Ge'ez is the language of the original from which the Greek and Aramaic copies were made, pointing out that it is the only language in which the complete text has yet been found.

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Gospel of Thomas is dated somewhere between 60-140 A.D.
That is almost an 80 yr time span! Some scholars support the earlier dating, others favor the later dating. There really isn't any consensus though.

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Or you could have just listened or read this.
[link to urantiabook.org]

What the heck is that?
Can you give a brief introduction.

I read some of it, although intriguing..I can't help but feeling like its some sort of framing of a deceptive cult
Interesting but I still believe the bible's account.