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Originally Posted by Sethomas
The idea that Jesus had children was only popular among the Gnostic Christians, so it's highly unlikely that anyone such as Constantine would have to excert any effort into debunking it.
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Wouldn't it have served his purposes to squelch the idea that there was any other road to divinity other than the Roman Church. Consider also the fact of the Bible's denegration of Mary Magdalan (and most women in the Bible, really) as a prostitute when recorded history shows that not only was she NOT a prostitute but she was of royal blood (House of Benjamin).
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Originally Posted by Sethomas
It's asinine to say that the Dead Sea Scrolls were deliberately left out because they weren't even discovered until the 20th century. The Old Testament adopted by the early Christians was simply the Jewish texts used until the Jewish Synod of Jerusalem around the year 70 AD, hence it includes books of the Septuagint that were dropped out of Torah and abandoned by Protestant reformers.
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Actually, I meant the Gnostic scrolls. Sorry, I was going from memory. Anyway, in regards to the "Dead Sea Scrolls" you act as is the western worlds "discovery" of something is the only one that counts ... as in Columbus "discovered" America like their weren't natives there and for which evidence has been found that he wasn't the first european in North America anyway. My point is that how do you know that Constantine (or his men) did NOT find, gather and burn those testimonies/gospels of the Bible that didn't fit his political agenda. I mean, what would he care? It's not as if he was a devout Catholic or anything. He received his baptism on his death bed for crying out loud.
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Originally Posted by Sethomas
If memory serves, Constantine wasn't even present at the Council of Nicea.
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He called for, assembled and presided over the council. I remember that much from my "Western History" and "Comparative Religion" courses.