[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Yes, ALL people professing Christianity that the Romans dealt with. The Eucharist - and the Roman misunderstanding of It - were accomplished facts in early Christianity.***

Is it possible that the Phibionites of Alexandria, who claimed to be Christian, yet had the most perveted rituals, may have caused the Romans to accuse the true Christians of canabalism?

If I told of their rituals I might be banned from FR.

[vladimir998]

You wrote:

“Is it possible that the Phibionites of Alexandria, who claimed to be Christian, yet had the most perveted rituals, may have caused the Romans to accuse the true Christians of canabalism?”

I doubt it. 1) The Phibionites were Gnostics in the Eastern Levant and probably would not have been confused with Christians even by the Romans. 2) It was Christians who accused the Phibionites of performing the worst of their rituals not the Romans. 3) Catholics everywhere taught that the Eucharist was Christ’s flesh, hence the Romans would have gotten their view of the Eucharist from them and not from a puny sect in the East.

“If I told of their rituals I might be banned from FR.”

Uh, maybe. They did go in for the most bizarre and disgusting of rituals.

[Mad Dawg]

I NEVER get invited to the good parties!

The phibionites, huh? I thought they had me on speed dial.