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the difference b/w catholics and evangelical christians? is their one? should they be considered 2 totally seperate things or the same?
They are two separate things. Catholics are a very traditional, structured church, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Evangelicals tend to have more modern services, and are generally fairly independent from each other. My particular denomination has no central authority whatsoever, save Christ Himself. The Catholics have a very well defined chain o' command.
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gnosticism?... is it really a christian branch? ive read that it was and that it was a cult.... the question i got was why the were basically iniallated by the catholics?.... then again i think all christian faiths were being killed at the time if im not mistaken....
From what I have read of the Gnostic Bible, I can not consider them to be Christian. They are related to Christianity, sure, but there are huge differences in theology. The Catholics had a lot to do with the Bible, but they did not write it, and you can find lists of what was considered canon by the early church that is older than the Catholic church, or written early enough that they can be taken as reliable when they talk about the early church. Interestingly enough, you don't find the Apocrypha in this list, but we can go into that one later, if you'd like.
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and why are books omitted from the bible? like the catholics have extra books and the book judas came up specifically in the convo....
Because they weren't there originally, or considered canon by the early church fathers. I've found that even the Jews did not consider these books canonical. Jerome fought bitterly against even translating them into the Vulgate. They also have a tendency to deviate from or directly contradict what the Bible says. They can often be filed under "Useful, but not authoritative."
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