Posted on 04/17/2005 6:14:39 AM PDT by bitt
Any chance these documents could have come from the library in Alexandria, Egypt?
From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius
Born 10 B.C.
Murdered and Deified A.D. 54
By; Robert Graves.
"Euripides?"
"No,they were already torn when I gottem."
YAWN!!! I don't think CATHOLICS nor the Vatican are going to be upset by this, not after the papacy of John Paul II. Many of us CATHOLICS, and many NON-Catholics as well, are intrigued by the calls for his sainthood, and that he be called "the Great," and "Doctor of the Church."
In other words, we already know which are the true Gospels just as much as other Christians already know. NOTHING will change that.
So, yes, by all means, BRING ON THE CLASSICS. The recently departed Pope was also an actor, playwright, polyglot, philosopher, professor, and an average blue collar worker during the Nazi occupation of Poland. We who look to his example, with admiration and NOT with slavish dependency, are therefore not fazed in the least by any forthcoming "revelation" from newly uncovered "classics," for Jesus Christ has already given us that revelation with the Holy Spirit to guide us unceasingly.
Consider the possibility that Christians of OTHER denominations are just as likely, if not MORE so, to have indigestion over this discovery.
Whatever increases our understanding of history, of Western civilization, of the human condition throughout the ages, of the varieties of religious experience, is therefore to be welcomed and studied in depth.
I am always amused when Freepers try to put down their fellow Freepers who just happen to be Catholic.
You missed my point, which was not to put Catholics down, but that since the Catholic Church in Rome gets upset over a fictional novel the "Da Vinci Codes"; they (the Catholic leaders in Rome) might mentally crack at people reading the first editions and unedited materials of the New Testament.
They get upset about the "Da Vinci Codes" because people are reading it and believing it is fact, not fiction.
The Word
by Irving Wallace
The Vanished Library
by Luciano Canfora
tr by Martin Ryle
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