Christians burned as many scriptures as they could, right?

Answer 1

i rather doubt that. they rolled them up in clay jars and hid them in caves. hence the dead sea scrolls which supposedly prove that the bible is valid.

Answer 2

Not sure what you are asking, but if you asking if the Christians have destroyed, altered, or hidden scriptures, the answer is no.

If all the manuscripts of the New Testament were to disappear tomorrow, it would be possible to recreate all but 11 of the nearly 8,000 verses of the New Testament from inscriptions, letters, commentaries, histories, and other sources - all written within 100 years of the time of Christ.

There exist today fragments of the New Testament that date back to with 15 years of when the original documents were written. There are complete copies of several of the books that date to with 60 years of the original, and complete New Testaments from within 100 years of the originals. The earliest dates from around 140AD, (the books were written between 50-90AD). It is word for word identical to the text from which all Bibles are translated today.

While the DiVinci Code as popularized the idea that the Bible was complied and altered by the Nicene Council in the late 4th century, the fact is that complete New Testaments, identical to the ones used today, still survive today from 250 years before the council ever meet. The truth is that Constantine, following his conversion to Christianity, had 50 Bibles produced between 325 adn 350 AD. Three of those Bibles still exist intact today, with fragments (from whole books to tiny peices) remaining of several of the other copies. These were produced before the coucil in 392AD that supposedly rewrote the New Testament.

Over 5,300 copies of the New Testament exist from before the year 1000AD. Compare this to Caesar's autobiography, of which 9 copies still exist, or Herodotus's Histories of which 8 copies exist, or Tacitur's Annals of which 20 copies exist. The New testament is the best documented pre-printing press book in existence.

Comparing the 5,300 manuscripts, there are only 40 difference in the nearly 8,000 verses contained in the New Testament. the majority of those are words that are mispelled in one of the 5,3000 hand written manuscripts.

As far as the Gnostic gospels, and other writtings not included in the Bible, have you noticed that you know about them? If the Christians were out there burning and destroying those woks, they would be unknown today. The facts is that those books have been known, copies and preserved by the church from over 2000 years. I had read them long before the DiVince Code came out in 2003 and suddenly popularized them. They are of interest historically, and so they have been preserved. But they have never been viewed as "scripture" or included in any Bible. Just because a book mentions God or Jesus does not make it scripture or earn it a place in the Bible. Nobody is going to start printing Bibles that include the DiVinci Code, even though it mentions Jesus. These books were not included because they were works of fictions, often written hundreds of years after the facts and were recognized as works of fictions at the time they appeared. We have contemporary scholars commenting on the books when they appeared and listing them as fiction.

So no, Christians have not burned, altered, or faked scriptures. What we have available today is accurate and reliable.

Answer 3

Shonuf and starwoode ..I have to say ditto ..

The focus must be to about the 6th century(as the canonization process cemented) or so .. consider even St Anthony repented of his earlier in life, adherence to the heretical gnostic sect of Manichean Gnosticism .. Were it not for the 20th century rediscovery of scriptures in both the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi finds .. We would have no idea of what Manichean Gnosticism was .. Later faiths that were also suppressed by papal edicts against heresies, and anathemas after the 7th century were less likely to have scriptural bases ... Such as the Cathars and the Albigensian heresies ...

Answer 4

NO!
I don't know where you get these cooky ideas, but they totally not true!

There were several books that the Catholic church added to the Bible (called the Apocrypha) and are denied by the Christian church because they do not meet the criteria needed to be called the Word of God...
but Christians have never burned scriptures. That is totally false... historically and all ways otherwise.

Answer 5

Are you are talking about what occurred during the inquisition and the Protestant revolution?

There was a lot of Bibles burned then. The Catholics did not want people to have the Bible in the vulgar language.

John Calvin, a protestant leader had Serventus, and his Bibles burned.

Anyway, the burning of Bibles is nothing to burning people. For that, the leaders of the Catholic and Protestant religions then, have blood on their hands. Such cruelty.

Answer 6

Wrong !
Do your studies and you will find how well the "Scriptures" were kept.
Do not confuse writtings with scripture. There are plenty of Gnostic writtings out there, Gnostic means "Personal revelation"
They were called Gnostic because they did not follow historical data but were guided by their own personal revelations. These were not considered scriptures.

Answer 7

The Pagan Roman Church murdered anyone with a bible. It was supposed to be chained and only viewed by the priest. That's how they got away with doing evil things to this very day. Don't you just hate how cruel they've been to protestants and witches?

Answer 8

I wouldn't say as many as they could. Just all the ones that didn't fit their agenda.

Answer 9

thats what the history books say.

Answer 10

There wouldn't be a bible if that was true