Continuing LOST SCRIPTURES

Learned an interesting thing today, while reading an epistle pseudonically attributed to Peter.   It seems that the Simon Magnus that he calls a "magician" pretending to preach Jesus' faith is none other than the man we now know of as Paul.  Paul is called the first Gnostic to assume a leadership role.  I am now reading a sermon, I think, by Ptolomy, another Gnostic who derives his thinking from Paul and Jesus.  The basic departing of the ways in the late second and third centuries seems to be the belief of Peter that, in order to be Christian, you must also keep the Jewish law, in its entirety.  Paul seems to believe that you must keep the commandments and Jesus' law only.  Ptolomy points out that keeping both is impossible--for instance, "though shalt not kill" vs "He who commits murder must die."  Or "turn the other cheek" vs. "And eye for an eye."  Anyway, Ptolomy makes a lot of sense to me and though his document has been deleted from our present day Bible, we seem to have adopted much of what he preaches.  Very interesting!