I am reading Bible History and found out that only good things write up about Jesus are left in the history. How about first 30 years of his life write up. If any of his follower did really write the Gospel, of course , it is the logic enough to add that missing 30 years.
P.S I am here 100% assuming that Bible Jesus exist and Gospels are reliable 100%.
2007-07-03 13:24:30 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Romans didn't burn the books. The Christians did. The council of Nicea convened in the 6th C after Christs birth. They gathered together all the writings that had been done about Christ. They decided what was doctrine and what wasn't, then gathered together everything that didn't fit with their ideas and destroyed it. The Gospel of Thomas was one of the books that was destroyed, but luckily one version of it was found hidden in a cave on the Dead Sea. (the dead sea scrolls). Furthermore, King James sat down and further "edited" the bible. Guess what? All of you Christian fundamentalists that claim that the King James is the only "true" version of the bible? You are taking as Holy Writ a self serving adaptation and translation by a man who wanted to decrease the influence of the Papacy and therefore cut out pieces of the bible that didn't fit in with his agenda. Sorry.
2007-07-03 14:03:48 · answer #1 · answered by Oswald F 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Without doubt, it is an historical fact. The Emperor Diocletian (and others) sought out and destroyed all forms of early Christian material. Bearing in mind that the `Bible`did not then exist, and much of what was considered `Christian` then, would be denied today, and that `old time religion` was in fact a mixture of diverse beliefs frowned upon by the later inventors of the `truth`, and the `word`.
2007-07-03 20:38:26 · answer #2 · answered by ED SNOW 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it is possible. Even today people add and remove books as they "see fit". There's a whole butt-load of Apocrypha out there that they don't want people to know about or see.
At one point in time reincarnation was actually in the Bible and a part of Christian beliefs but somebody somewhere decided they didn't like it so they took it out.
Some now call it a "transmigration of the soul"...and this is different because?
2007-07-03 20:32:42 · answer #3 · answered by Malachi 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You'll find that Christianity burned and banned a lot of dissenting opinions. Look at the Gnostic Gospels found in Hag Hammaddi.
2007-07-03 20:30:55 · answer #4 · answered by S K 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
According to the ancient Essenes (the original followers of Jesus, King Constantine in 325 ad had all original New Testaments burned accept a couple that where hidden by the Essenes who had to go into hiding because they where being killed by the Roman government. King Constantine and his click of scribes made their own version of the Bible and omitted Karma,Reincarnation, vegetarianism, and made hell a place to go eternally. Read the original New Testament The Gospel of the Nazirenes google gospelofthenazirenes.com for the original teachings of Jesus. The truth will set you free. Peace to you.
2007-07-03 20:32:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
People who want to downplay Jesus' role in human history tend to hypothesize that there were a bunch of negative things written about Him in the first few centuries following his ascension. Without any evidence of this, it's a difficult hypothesis to prove. Hypothesizing that the "evil" Roman church hierarchy must have burned all negative things about Christ may make sense to them, but there still needs to be some evidence of this before suggesting it seriously.
2007-07-03 20:31:33 · answer #6 · answered by chdoctor 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you assume a lot my friend...
but the truth is that jesus was hiding in the desert under a rock from age 12 to 30...
2007-07-03 20:28:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
X: I don't care if they did.
History has been preserved.
The other works you are referring to were all written so much later, it would be like me telling stories about George Washington. I could create some great fables, but they wouldn't have anything to do with old G.
TEK
2007-07-03 20:28:36 · answer #8 · answered by TEK 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
that's why God has sent the Quran.
[102] Say (O Muhammad (peace be upon him)) Ruh-ul-Qudus (spirit of ul-Qudus)) has brought it (the Qur'ân) down from your Lord with truth, that it may make firm and strengthen (the Faith of) those who believe, and as a guidance and glad tidings to those who have submitted (to Allâh ).
Quran 16:102
2007-07-03 20:38:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe first-hand written accounts of Jesus' life don't exist because people made him up. Think of the classic introduction to a fairy tale "Once upon a time..."
2007-07-03 20:28:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋