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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.

Please explain how this book, obviously *WIDELY* available on Amazon and in bookstores worldwide, hasn't brought the Church down yet.

That's easy. Because you haven't read it yet.

Seriously, no conspiracy. Rome knows full well that if their people won't use the Bible to refute errant tradition, some extra-biblical source like the Didache is of no real threat. My focus was not a conspiracy, but simply a lesson in what is known of and what is not. One would think that something as important as the earliest extra-biblical document, it would be better recognized by "church" leaders. The history of the Didache, although not conspiratory, is interesting. It is quoted from in quite a few early documents - but no copy existed until it was accidentally found in 1870 - but not in the Vatican library. Afterward, a number of copies in the Vatican library were discovered, but I do not say that it was a conspiracy - just ironic.

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.

You just don’t understand. The RCC controls Amazon.com. Do you think it its any coincidence it is named for a river in Brazil, a mostly Roman country? If you attempt to order the Didache your name gets on a list. You will eventually receive the Didache, but the upper section of the pages will be marked with a quick acting poison and you will be killed. [sarcasm off]

At first I did not think it would be necessary to add the “sarcasm off” at the end up there, but then I read some of the other posts, and what I said is actually mild in comparison.