In this twenty-third session of AP 301: Foundations for Apologetics, Dr. Phil Fernandes of Shepherds Bible College in Bremerton, Washington addresses Elaine Pagels and the Gnostic Gospels, making a rigorous case for why the 27 books of the New Testament belong in the canon and why the Gnostic writings do not — not because of political power struggles, but because of clear, historically grounded criteria the early church was already applying from the beginning.