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To: Dayuhan who wrote (771)9/8/1998 3:12:00 AM
From: wallacestevens  Read Replies (1) of 1542
 
Are you saying that Roman Catholics are not Christians? You are presumably aware that until Martin Luther came along the Roman Catholic Church WAS Christianity. Or wasn't it? If it wasn't, what was?

Actually, the Roman Catholic Church was Christianity only from the time of Constantine's conversion. At that time there were many different sects of Christians. Some believed in the divinity of Jesus, some didn't. Some believed in the virgin birth, some didn't. The catholics were the only sect that would agree to state sponsorship, so that's the group Constantine adopted. It turned out great for the catholics. Because they now had a guaranteed income through Roman taxation, they were able to destroy the other Christian groups.

That is why there were so many scrolls of sacred texts hidden in caves -- the catholics were intent on all the sacred books that they decided didn't belong in their "official" version of what we now call the bible.

For further insight into some of those groups, you can read The Nag Hammadi Library (available in paperback at Borders and elsewhere) which is a collection of translations of scrolls found at Nag Hammadi in 1947 which included not only very early versions of books in "the bible" but other books -- and other gospels -- that had been suppressed.
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