We know that Christians make many claims for which they can not prove.  Such claims are that their God is the real God, heaven, hell, hell fire, satan, demons, talking snake, angels, virgin birth, healing and so forth.  Some go as far and use science to “prove” God.  Yet their proof (if you want to accept it as proof which by definition is is not) would NOT prove their God.  It would only “prove” ALL Gods.  Ooops.    

My point, if they can make claims without evidence to say they prove their God.  Then I would guess this letter is equally valid proof that Jesus did have fun with little boys.  It is interesting that the Church magically lost the document….isn’t it?

 

Mar Saba letter  (I would encourage readers to research this more)

Discovery of the letter
The manuscript discovery was fairly small, consisting of three pages of Greek manuscript bound in as end-papers to another book, an edition of the letters of St. Ignatius of Antioch. Morton Smith photographed the three pages of Greek manuscript, and returned the volume to its original place in the library.

First, it was a previously unknown letter written by Clement of Alexandria. Second, it was a secret letter to his disciple Theodore. The letter congratulates Theodore on silencing the Carpocratians, who were citing a libertine version of the Gospel of Mark. The bulk of the letter is spent acknowledging the fact that there is indeed a “secret Gospel of Mark,” but Clement’s version of Mark is not the version which the Carpocratians are using.
In particular, the letter quotes “Secret Mark” to the effect that Jesus had a practice of initiating his male followers into the “mystery of the Kingdom of Heaven.” But, also in particular, Clement insists that “Secret Mark” does not include the verbiage “naked male with naked male.”

Morton Smith published his findings in 1973 in two different books: one was a rigorously academic volume from Harvard entitled Clement of Alexandria and a Secret Gospel of Mark, while the second was a popular explanation entitled The Secret Gospel.

Morton Smith reported he found the manuscript in the Mar Saba monastery in 1958, photographed it carefully, and then left the book where he found it. He, cautiously, did not publish until 1973. When people asked him where the original manuscript was, he replied, “On the third floor of the library, where I found it.” Four scholars found the manuscript there and saw it.

Then the chief monk got involved, and transferred the book to the Patriarchal Library in Jerusalem. Supposedly, this was part of a project to move all the Mar Saba books to safer keeping. It was never completed. The librarian at the Patriarchal Library removed the manuscripts from the end-papers of the book where Smith had found it, and took more photographs. This was part of a plan, it was said at the time, to keep the books and the manuscripts in separate places. And this plan evidently was never completed. The current stance of the Greek Orthodox Church is that “they cannot find it.”