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>Gnostic gospels predating the Canonical Gospels
You do realize that the gospels were canonized hundreds of years after Christ, with politicians and the papacy picking and choosing the most agreeable stories to deem legitimate, and destroying or obscuring the remainder.
And so there are a myriad of apocryphal texts that are antecedent to the canon.
But how on Earth could anyone try to claim that Gnosticism predates the canon? It's a Roman response to - and reinterpretation of - Christianity. It literally can't come before the books it's a response to. That makes zero sense.
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Literally all of the gnostic gospels post date the canonical gospels, Matthew Mark Luke and John all were written within a century after Jesus' death, all the gnostic gospels were written at least two centuries after his death. The only one which has an even remote chance of predating the four canon or being contemporary to them is Thomas, and that is just because it has so little content in it that it's hard to date it, and even with Thomas it is the general consensus that it was written in the 2nd century.

When it comes to the actual life, works and word of Jesus virtually no scholar considers the gnostic gospel as reliable accounts.