A new gospel

Hmmm - how interesting. I finally break down and read The DaVinci Code - The Name of the Rose for people with short attention spans - and lo and behold, a few days later, they release one of the Apocrypha mentioned in that book: The Gospel of Judas.

Now, there's a couple of interesting things about the bible; first of all, that it was edited and compiled out of literally dozens of gospels - known as the Apocrypha or Gnostic gospels - at the Nicene Council in 325 AD. Out of these dozens, four made it in, by decree of the emperor Constantine.

This editing process was presumably guided by the changing role of the church at the time, from an oppositional sect to the state religion of the empire; which is why some of these gospels, which tend towards what would today be called anarchism, were left out. The same applies to those, such as the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, which took a less repressive view of gender roles, sexuality, and what I'm going to go all PC and call patriarchy.

So, if the bible is the 'inerrant word of god', as some believe, what are we to make of these other texts that directly contradict it? I'm sure some will go out and claim some nonsense about a divinely inspired editing process; but that's more a deflection of than an answer to my question.