[donmeaker]

But it took the post Nicene government authority to destroy the contrary writings.

Have you read the Coptic Gospels? The Gospel of Peter? The Gospel of Thomas?

[dangus]

>> Have you read the Coptic Gospels? The Gospel of Peter? The Gospel of Thomas? <<

Have YOU ever read the Gospel of Thomas? I have. It's an absurd joke.

>> But it took the post Nicene government authority to destroy the contrary writings. <<

They were the barbarians who burnt the libraries of Alexandria, and the Romans who the Essenes feared. And from their long-hidden treasures, what we have found are absurd (Gospel of Thomas) or vastly exculpitory of orthodox Christianity (Dead Sea Scrolls, Apostolic Constitutions, etc.). There was no "post-Nicene government authority" which destroyed the historical records; if anything, it was the pre-Nicene persecutions (which ended with Nicea) that are responsible for our meager historical record.