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It wasn't until the mid-to-late-300s that the New Testament canon was firmly decided on. Furthermore, John was written around 100-120 AD, so whatever your source for the idea that Gnostic texts were "suppressed" around 100 AD, it's incredibly suspect.
In short, the version of Christianity that survived did so primarily because they were just better at arguing their points, not because of any book burnings or systematic suppression like that. Gnostic texts were lost for two main reasons: 1) they lost the debate, and were a fringe group anyway, so few people cared about them after awhile and their texts stopped being manually copied and 2) SirLance is correct that Gnosticism is based on "secret knowledge." In fact, SirLance is generally correct in his entire description of Gnostic beliefs (although it's far more complicated than those basic statements). The Gnostic texts, btw, were all written after the 4 canonical gospels and are, from a strictly historical standpoint, less reliable (but that's not to say they're entirely useless, they just need a much more careful reading than the already careful reading that is necessary for the canonical gospels).
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