[safisoft]

Catholics or Protestants want to keep the Didache hidden

The Didache is the earliest extra-biblical writing by a many years. It is a remarkable document, when compared to Shem Tov's Matthew (Hebrew Matthew) and other Jewish sources. There are a number of translations, some good, some not. It is very easy to read. The reason it remains largely undiscovered is because it provides a very different view of the early congregations of believers. It is big on Scripture (it quotes part of Matthew 6), and very low on men who "authoritatively" turn others to traditions etc. It is highly critical of "professional" religionists - i.e. anyone PAID to teach/preach etc.

And yes, the "eucharist" if read as "thanksgiving" describes what Acts does: believers meeting and breaking bread together - not some pagan ritual.

[Conservative til I die]

And yes, the "eucharist" if read as "thanksgiving" describes what Acts does: believers meeting and breaking bread together - not some pagan ritual.

Please explain how this book, obviously *WIDELY* available on Amazon and in bookstores worldwide, hasn't brought the Church down yet. I mean, it's not suppressed, like you say it is. It's affordable to the common man. So why hasn't this book exposed what the Catholic Church doesn't want exposed? It's like all that Gnostic Gospel nonsense. Apparently the Church is trying to hide from them, yet you can pick it up at the bookstore for $10.95.

A big whatever and a yawn from me.

[tort_feasor]

It wasn't hidden, it was lost.

Didache
(DOCTRINE OF THE TWELVE APOSTLES)

A short treatise which was accounted by some of the Fathers as next to Holy Scripture. It was rediscovered in 1883 by Bryennios, Greek Orthodox metropolitan of Nicomedia, in the codex from which, in 1875, he had published the full text of the Epistles of St. Clement.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04779a.htm