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Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: The Abstruse Caboose
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Aug 14th, 2003, 02:04 PM
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've noticed a growth among Protestants in the sophomoric presumption that anything written immediately after the time of Christ should be treated as Scripture. It's absurd how many books are out there about New Testament apocrypha. Maybe it's regression for the fact that the New Testament is an anthology inarguably compiled by the Roman Catholic Church, and they're striving for a more indidividualistic intellectual foundation.
Back to your statement, the it's extremely improbable that Constantine sought the destruction of dissident Christian literature because so much of it remains intact. I mean, if a Roman emperor really did order its destruction, his cranks did a really shitty job of carrying it out. Every once in a while we find something like the Nag Hammadi codices that really stick out among original sources, but that's simply explained by their very unpopularity in their own time.
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