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To: donmeaker

>> 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.


89 posted on 03/07/2007 7:40:49 AM PST by dangus
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To: dangus

Kind of interesting. You assert that the authority which excommunicated Pelagius, had no authority to burn books.


91 posted on 03/10/2007 10:39:11 AM PST by donmeaker (The speed of light is 186,234 miles per second. Not just a good idea, its the LAW!)
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