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First century Christians did not all observe the leviticus holy days and after the Jerusalem council they stopped that.

“Biblical Christians “? When the books of the Bible were only completed by 84 AD with the last book, the gospel of John. And the biblical canon was compiled in the 2nd century.

“Biblical Christians “? When the books of the Bible were only completed by 84 AD with the last book, the gospel of John. And the biblical canon was compiled in the 2nd century.

They did have the "old testament" and there's also pretty strong evidence that the books of the new testament were in common use long before the 2nd century. Paul's letters for example were surely being passed around between churches.

And the biblical canon was compiled in the 2nd century.

Which was accomplished via popular vote and not divine inspiration through a prophet. From my point of view, all their decisions are suspect. These are the same bunch that eventually tortured people, burned them at the stake, started whole sale war in order to force conversions, and had everyone praying to Mary instead of God the Father like Jesus taught, etc, etc, etc...

That's the point of my OP. They started down the wrong path with Linus and there's no way they could ever get back on the right path. You can trace the growing separation from the actual teachings of Jesus through time. Until now the gulf is so wide... Well I don't need to go any further, there are tons of threads on other people's complaints.

The point is, it's not random because of a single bad person(Ravi Z or the current Pope or whoever), it's a heritage that is repeated through time and can be traced back to it's source.