In His Name: Vol. Ivb Who Wrote the Gospels?

By E Christopher Reyes

One naturally assumes that when they listen to their Pastor, Reverend, or Priest, that they speak the truth, and takes for granted that when the Pope speaks, he also speaks the truth. Yet few Christians are conscious, much less concerned to hear about the truth, or of how they have been deceived for centuries, and betrayed again by their sacrosanct religious institutions bent upon enriching themselves by their ignorance of the faiths history and gullibility.

This book deals with the truth, the truth, which many Christian sects do not wish to convey to their followers. For almost two thousand years Christians have maintained that Jesus was God incarnate, a sinless man, a man born of a virgin mother, a man who was the embodiment of perfection on earth, which is unflinchingly stated in their Christian Bibles, the New Testament, [Jesus] Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth. ~I Peter 2:22, King James Authorized Version. Cf. Luke 2:48, Joseph is Jesus father (?).


We are dying today from the fact of not having anyone who knows how to lay down his life for the Truth. ~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J., quoted in The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church by Malachi Martin, author of Vatican and The Final Conclave, pg. 286, 1987.

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E Christopher Reyes

Surviving Polio at age 3 1/2, then cancer, followed by back surgery, Ed Reyes is a survivor. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California and a graduate of Citrus College, Azusa, California, and California Polytechnic University, Pomona, majoring in Management, Behavioral Science, and Criminal Justice.

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IN HIS NAME

VOL. IVB WHO WROTE THE GOSPELS?

E. Christopher Reyes

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Contents

Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth? ~Galatians 4:16, Holy Bible.

~Introduction

~Constantine

~Dionysius

~Dositheus

~Ebionites

~Elkesai

~Empedocles

~Erasmus

~Epictetus

~Epiphanes

~Epiphanius

~Essenes

~Eusebius

~Firmicus Maternus

~Gnostics

~Gregory of Nyssa

~Heracleon

~Heraclitus

~Hermas

~Hippolytus

~Hitler

~Homer

Antioch

~Irenaeus

~Isidore

~James King

~Jerome

*Conclusion

We are dying today from the fact of not having anyone who knows how to lay down his life for the Truth. ~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J., quoted in The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church by Malachi Martin, author of Vatican and The Final Conclave, pg. 286, 1987.

Dedicated to Mark, Caecent, and M.C.

Due to the number of early contributors to the writing of Scriptures it was impossible to name all the key players in one book, hence the sequel to this edition will be entitled In His Name Vol. IVC. Thank you for your thoughtfulness regarding this matter.

~Introduction

One naturally assumes that when they listen to their Pastor, Reverend, or Priest, that they speak the truth, and takes for granted that when the Pope speaks, he also speaks the truth. Yet few Christians are conscious, much less concerned to hear about the truth, or of how they have been deceived for centuries, and betrayed again by their sacrosanct religious institutions bent upon enriching themselves by their ignorance of the faith’s history and gullibility.

This book deals with the truth, the truth, which many Christian sects do not wish to convey to their followers. For almost two thousand years Christians have maintained that Jesus was God incarnate, a sinless man, a man born of a virgin mother, a man who was the embodiment of perfection on earth, which is unflinchingly stated in their Christian Bibles, the New Testament, "[Jesus] Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth." ~I Peter 2:22, King James Authorized Version. Cf. Luke 2:48, Joseph is Jesus’ father (?).

Accuracy or historical facts have been sacrificed for the benefit of the anonymous authors and their respective vacillating faith, The New Testament abounds in more glosses, additions, and interpolations purposely introduced than any other book. ~J. J. Griesbach, 1745-1812, a pupil of Semler, and professor at Jena, early on declared himself a skeptic regarding the New Testament text, 1771.

Many Christians have complained that although the KJV is quite poetic, resonating with a melody unheard of except in poetry, it is still difficult to read, hence, in an earlier version we have, Sith the noise of the bruit of this school hath reached to thee-ward, we trust that our concourse liketh you well-particularly those who blaze abroad that there is error here. Whoso setteth thee against us, whoso saith we offend all-speaketh leasing. We be not affrighted, but withal, we are straightened in our bowels. We knoweth well that what thou wilst hear straightway wilt fast close up thy thoughts. With som we be abjects, some have defied us, but there has been no daysman betwixt us. They subvert the simple! ~References where these words are found: Ezekiel 35:6, Jeremy 10:22, 1 Samuel 19:4, Proverbs 1:21, Esther 8:8, Mark 1:45, Proverbs 25:14, Jasper 3:2, Psalms 4:2, Luke 24:37, Acts 25:27, 1 Timothy 5:13, II Corinthians 6:12, Matthew 4:20, Genesis 20:18, Psalms 35:15, Numbers 23:8, Job 9:33, Genesis 31:37, Lamentations 3:36, Proverbs 14:15. Questions You’ve Asked About Bible Translations, by Dr. Jack Lewis.

There is no error, and if there were, there can be no divulgence of error. Peter Sutor, once of the Sorbonne, and later a Carthusian monk, declares that, If in one point the Vulgate were in error, the entire authority of Holy Scripture would collapse.

But, this Jesus the Christ did not found Christianity! Jesus, the Christ, the Messiah, did not set out to bring about a new faith. Jesus, the Christ, as per Biblical texts, set out to reform a corrupt Church, hence, Jesus is not welcome in the Jewish Holy Temple for he preached freely, cast out the money changers [a lucrative business in the temple] cast out the whores and the prostitutes [male and female lovers of the priests who resided inside the Temple], and chastised the clergy for their lack of morality and practicing their unchaste ways inside a Holy Temple of God [this goes to show that the clergy in Christian religions had two thousand years of prior poor examples to follow]. ~Man’s Search For Spirituality by E Christopher Reyes.

Jesus was condemned for casting out the moneychangers who also carried out business inside the synagogue; he also cast out the whores, and, he cast out the prostitutes who also resided in the synagogue, which actions infuriated the Rabbis.

Who was this young man who would dare come to the Temple and transform the way things were being done? Who was this man who would dare change the way things had been run for centuries? Who was this man who challenged the authority of religion?

The priests had interpreted Scripture to help their own carnal needs. But, whom were they really fooling? The priesthood had adulterated the Word of God and because the congregation did not speak out they assumed this as acceptance of their wicked ways. ~Cf. Proverbs 28:26, John 21:15-17.

Yet, within the span of three hundred years, the Christian religion had become a vast organization, a bureaucracy with a clergy presiding over even more corrupted religious rites adapted from Pagan Mysteries and Judaism. It had borrowed the best elements of Greek philosophy and had formed a dogma appealing to human ignorance and fallacious sentiment. Prior to 150 C.E., all quotations from the Gospels were made anonymously, because their authors were not Matthew, Mark, Luke or John as Christians are still deceptively taught today, … It thus appears that the titles of the Gospels are not traceable to the Evangelists themselves. ~Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol.VI., p. 655-656.

Gospels were routinely added to, revised, edited, rephrased, rearticulated, reworked, corrected for conformity, and rewritten to present the editor’s amended position, which might even deviate from Scripture. This barbarous mutilation of the Gospel, by the unceremonious excision of a multitude of little words, is often attended by no worse consequence than that thereby an extraordinary baldness is imparted to the Evangelical narrative. The removal of so many of the coupling-hooks is apt to cause the curtains of the Tabernacle to hang wondrous ungracefully. ~John Burgeon.

There are also numerous places in the New Testament that imply that the books were written long after the supposed events, e.g. when the text reads, To this day, or From the beginning, or In the days of John the Baptist, which indicates that the anonymous writer was far ahead in time and looking back to historical events, but, we do not have any mention whatsoever in the historical record of the narrative of Christ’s body being stolen in Jewish history until the 2nd century.

Biblical historians believe that the entire New Testament was already in use and only five books, were questioned, but these five books were already being used in churches throughout the Roman world from 100 C.E.

Are the Biblical references to Gospel manuscripts incongruous [inconsistent, out of place]? The first complete listing of New Testament books, as we have them today, did not appear until over 300 years after the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. "The first complete listing was given by Saint Athanasius in his Paschal Letter in 367 C.E." ~Which Came First: The Church or the New Testament? by Fr. James Bernstein, Orthodox churchman, 1994, p. 6. Cf. Luke 22:20; I Corinthians 11:25; II Corinthians 3:6; Jeremiah 31:31, and Hebrews 8:6-13; 9:1-4, 9:15, 12:24.

From the 1st to 2nd century, the Gospels were never referred to by the names we now known them [Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John], and from the end of the 1st century to the middle of the 2nd century, the superscript titles found in today’s Gospels, According to Mark, etc., were not even a part of the Original manuscripts, which of course, don’t exist. But, around 155 CE, Justin Martyr began to refer to Memoirs of the Apostles, and to write Gospels, and referred to the Gospel of Mark as the Memoirs of Peter.

Thus, the year 180 C.E., marks the first time all four Gospels are explicitly named and quoted by Bishop Irenaeus. The Christian religious organization soon became a powerful political force in the Roman Empire, a force to be reckoned with because it had long been building up a bureaucracy, an autocracy, which had already implemented its own procedures, But it was not the Church established by Christ! Contemplate the Christian Church at the beginning of the 4th century, therefore, and some difficulty will be experienced in recognizing in her the community of Apostolic times, or rather, we shall not be able to recognize it at all. ~Charles Guignebert, Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Christianity, p. 122. What Did The Early Church Believe And Preach After The Death of Jesus? By Wes White.

Is the Bible truly Divinely Inspired? Did God truly dictate its contents? Did the Apostles write or dictate Divine Scripture? Not one time did God guarantee that One of the translations was Inspired. ~Bible Believer’s Bulletin, Nov. 91, pg. 10, as quoted in Self-Described Restorer of the Missing Link of KJV Final Authority by Peter S. Ruckman.

However, because of the excessive reverence Christian zealots pay to their so-called Inspired and Holy Bible, it has become one of the most dangerous books the world has ever known. The world’s Christian ministry has been so inculcated [indoctrinated, propagandized] with lies that they no longer appreciate the truth when presented to them.

Yet, three times the Truth is repeated in Scripture: in Deuteronomy 8:3, Matthew 4:4, and Luke 4:4, but Scriptural Truth has remained in the background, a mere shadow while the ominous clergy continues to edit Scriptures to their approval. ~Mark 16:9-20. Revelation 22:18; neither add or subtract from Scripture; cf. John 15:15, Hebrews 1:1-2, John 16:12-13, II Timothy 3:14-17, I Corinthians 13:8, II Corinthians 11:13-15, Matthew 11:13, Acts 20:20-27, II Peter 1:3, Deuteronomy 12:32, Proverbs 30:5-6, Isaiah 8:20, Acts 17:11, Galatians 1:6-9, I Thessalonians 5:21, I John 4:1, etc., etc.

For those who like fairy tales, folk stories, legends, and myths, this is definitely not the book you would like to read. Jews were living in various sectors of the Roman Empire and were heavily influenced by Gnostic philosophies, which were introduced into the Mediterranean lands by the 1st century B.C.E.

As the early Christians rejected their Judaic roots, Catholic Christians began to increasingly view Jews as a problem, and the conflict between Judaism and Catholicism became intensified from the 2nd century onward.

Three early Carthaginian [African] lawyers were Bishops Tertullian, Cyprian, and Augustine, who used their linguistic [lexicon] to rewriting Scripture to conform to their personal views. Bishop Tertullian wanted to, Dissociate the Christian message from its Jewish trappings in order to give it a truly Latin expression. ~Jean Danielou, The Origins of Latin Christianity, p. 139.

The Bishops argue over their religious domains, and about 250 C.E., Bishop Cyprian complains strongly in opposition to some local Bishops who are trying to exercise control over more than one church. Cyprian believes that all Bishops are equal, and that one Bishop cannot exist over another Bishop, which signals the rise of diocesan Bishops and metropolitans [or archbishops], but his warnings, and complains go unheeded.

The adopted Greek Logos was the verbal import meaning Message, as in English, Give ’em the ‘Word!’ Or, say, the chapter of a book, the Creator is not a Word. For some reason, however, Bishop Tertullian preferred verbum, or sermo, The capacity to speak and understand language, and he was, unfortunately, very influential on the Old African Latin Bible, which was significant in Bishop Jerome’s translation, the Latin Vulgate, but, the other two African lawyers that gave early Western Christian theology its tone preferred to use verbum [inference].

Hence, we have, "East-West differences are not differences between one side that accepts something that the other side does not accept; the differences are rather the result of different imports imposed on terms accepted in accordance with the premises or assumptions that constitute the ‘Forms’ of the paradigms [patterns, prototypes] of either side." ~Bible Translators And Paradigms by Orchid Land Publications, 2008, rev. 2009.

The Christian leadership, basically, wanted to separate itself from the radical Jewish following, and instead of accepting their common heritage; the Church Fathers now sought ways to reinterpret the Scriptures, and to show the superiority of their new religious movement.

Bishop Marcion, a prolific writer, later declared a heretic, claimed that the God of the Old Testament was evil and that only Paul’s doctrines of love represented true Christianity, but, the fact remains that all of these early Church Fathers were infected with some type of disavowal of the real truth or engendered heretic beliefs, hence the necessity to rewrite the Gospels.

In their lives and teachings we find the seed plot of almost all that arose later. In germ form appear the dogmas of Purgatory, Transubstantiation, Priestly Mediation, Baptismal Regeneration, and the whole Sacramental system. ~Bishop John Chrysostom, Vos, p. 25.

Of the Post-Nicene Fathers, Pope Leo the Great, stands out as the first Roman Catholic Pope! Therefore, the Church Fathers are actually the fathers of the Roman Catholic Church, those early men who laid the very foundation of the renunciation of the early Christian beliefs; therefore, the apostasy that produced Romanism and Greek Orthodoxy. ~The Church Fathers: A Door To Rome. Cf. Acts 20:29-30, I Timothy 4:1-6, II Timothy 3:1-13, 4:3-4, I John 2:18, John 7:11, Revelation 2-3, and II Corinthians 11:1-4, and 12:15.

So, what have we learned? The Roman Catholic Church will be in power for over a full millennium, in which time she will create the insidious Inquisition, which reaches out its tentacles to the farthest corners of Europe and the unknown world, as Rome commits every unspeakable crime in the name of her Lord God, and Savior; everything within its devious powers to destroy the writings of all those who are at variance with her.

The Inquisition was a Roman Catholic kangaroo court or tribunal established for the ultimate examination and punishment [via gruesome forms of torture and blatant murder] of those whom it deemed as heretics. Catholics were commanded by their leadership, under threat of excommunication, to give instantaneous information, even of their nearest and dearest friends and relatives, and during his reign, 1159 to 1181, Pope Alexander III commanded the Bishop of Lyons to exterminate the Protestant Christians of France for exposing Roman Catholic doctrines as being un-scriptural.

This diabolical court of Inquisition was originally established by Father Dominic, 1170-1221, founder of the order of Dominican friars, who was charged by Pope Innocent III, 1198-1216, with orders to incite Catholics to exterminate their heretic brethren, namely Protestant Christians, who either taught or believed any Christian Doctrine other than those, which are officially sanctioned by the Roman Catholic Church.

The accused were afforded no rights, as a mere accusation against a defendant was deemed sufficient grounds for condemnation and extermination. The early Greek historian, Herodotus claims that nearly all of the Greek Gods came from Africa. We know that the Greeks worshiped Imhotep as Aesclepius, the God of Medicine, and that the name Athens, Athena, is from Aten.

Constantine, the deified Emperor, in 325 C.E., took the religious creativity from African spirituality and created a religious manipulative mechanism at Council of Nicaea attempting to organize a system for using the African spiritual thoughts.

The early Christian church was then forced to convey the fact that Christians had used many African ideas, the Son of God [Sol Invictus], Eternal Life, and the Resurrection, into their religion, but the sad fact is that since we have forgotten so much society does not realize that African Black Society was the originator of religion.

The first naming of the Divine, Netcher, God, or Netcheru Divinity from which some say the English word nature is ultimately derived.

The first Trinity: Ausar, Auset, and Heru, which has been repeated by the immeasurable Amen, used in all Christian ceremonies, Mut, Khonsu and then God, the Tather, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

Fact: The first Resurrection from the dead was Ausar, and this is also where we find that the Neb Ankh-Lord of Life was not a sarcophagus, that is, not a flesh eater, but something that spoke of life, and the name of God, Amen, which is now used by Christians in all of their prayers.

The enemies of Ra, the ‘Sun God,’ who carries the Ankh [the first Cross is Egyptian] in his right hand signifying life, and the staff in his left hand signifying his power, are destroyed by fire each morning and night.

The Christian Coptics adopt many of the Egyptian sacred teachings and later embellish the Egyptian Hell by adding the souls of men who do not embrace their Christendom.

The very concept of an Eternal Life was from Ankh neheh, which was African. Fact: Neither the word Trinity nor the explicit doctrine appears in the New Testament. ~The New Encyclopedia Britannica.

Originally, the Gospel According to Mark contained no mention whatsoever of any Resurrection of Jesus. ~Mark 16:9-20. Revelation 22:18; neither add or subtract from Scripture; cf. John 15:15, Hebrews 1:1-2, John 16:12-13, II Timothy 3:14-17, I Corinthians 13:8, II Corinthians 11:13-15, Matthew 11:13, Acts 20:20-27, II Peter 1:3, Deuteronomy 12:32, Proverbs 30:5-6, Isaiah 8:20, Acts 17:11, Galatians 1:6-9, I Thessalonians 5:21, I John 4:1, etc., etc.

Similarly, the Gospel According to John is altered. Gospel of John originally ended at verse 21:24, which was followed by a small tailpiece, and then the words The Gospel According to John.

However, some time later, a completely different Inspired individual took pen in hand, erased the text following verse 24, and then added in the Inspired text of John 21:25, which we find in our corrupted Christian Bibles today.

There are no fairy tales here, as I deal with religious truths; truths, which the Christian ministry has sought to avoid; truths, which the Christian ministry has hidden for centuries; truths, which the Christian ministry has denied for nearly two millenniums.

This book is for those with a voracious appetite for truth; for those with an unquenchable hunger for knowledge; for those with the courage and stamina to reject historicized tales and fictionalized romantic narrations. Religion was created [supposedly] to help the needy, help the poor, help the sick and infirmed, not to help themselves [priesthood] as we see everyday in the sumptuous lifestyles of the pious, greedy, and covetous ministry of Jesus. The Christian Reverends have even taken to changing Scripture to justify their buying expensive items.

But, what do they care? Their congregations are filled with the uninformed, those ignorant of the roots of their faith. ~Revelation 22:18; neither add or subtract from Scripture; cf. John 15:15, Hebrews 1:1-2, John 16:12-13, II Timothy 3:14-17, I Corinthians 13:8, II Corinthians 11:13-15, Matthew 11:13, Acts 20:20-27, II Peter 1:3, Deuteronomy 12:32, Proverbs 30:5-6, Isaiah 8:20, Acts 17:11, Galatians 1:6-9, I Thessalonians 5:21, I John 4:1, etc., etc.

With rod in hand, the young Christian reader is first tempted by those fabulous miracles and brave hearts that once graced the pages of history, and these tender and timorous souls are taught to love their book, with a furious countenance, but with a rod ever ready to snatch the very truth from their innocent minds, to enslave their soul, should they seek further indulgence into truth and not fiction.

One of the reasons the Christian leadership doesn’t want their membership to read anything but their Approved Biblical text, because of its Pagan origins:

• The daily bread is under the dispensation of God. Give us this day our daily bread. When thou plowest, labor in the field that God hath given thee. ~Egyptian Book of the Dead.

• O Amen, O Amen, who are in Heaven.~EgyptianBook of the Dead, cf. the Christian The Lord’s Prayer and Psalm 23.

• And a new beginning was foretold in the end that a man may rise from his grave singing. ~Egyptian Book of the Dead. Cf. the Resurrection of Jesus.

• He keepeth all his bones; not one of them is broken. ~cf. Psalm 34:20, Exodus 12.46 and Numbers 9.12.

• "Thy [Osiris’] bones shall not be destroyed, and thy flesh shall not perish." ~Egyptian Book of the Dead, 3500 B.C.E. cf. Exodus 12: 8, 9, 11, 46, Psalm 34:20, Exodus 12.46 and Numbers 9.12.

• In the very handwriting of the God. ~Chap. Ixiv of the Book of the Dead. Cf. Book of Moses.

• "… Upon Golden Tablets do the Gods write." ~Cf. with Revelation 1:8, 1:18, and the Book of Mormon.

• …Thy son stands on thine thy throne, equipped with thy aspect…Thy Name that is on earth lives, thy Name that is on earth endures; thou wilt not perish, thou wilt not be destroyed for ever and ever.~From a 6th Dynasty Egyptian prayer going back to 2345-2181 B.C.E.

The heavily influenced Egyptian writings, also known as the Alexandrian Codex, is also profoundly imbedded with Greek inspirations, and is used by the Jehovah’s Witnesses, who, like many other Christian groups, also deny their Pagan ancestry.

The Christian Churches claim the ridiculous solution that Satan anticipated competition and went back in history and added these sayings, but, the only true threat to Christianity is the truth itself. A truth the various Christian sects all proclaim to possess.

The Christians are fed Scripture from those who often know not the origins of what they speak, and few Christians ever take the time to study their early Christian writings, and those who do usually go no further than reading just a little of early church history books, most of which are sacerdotal [clerically] or doctrinally slanted, which, unfortunately has led to many Christian Church officials and publishers to having no qualms on rewriting [enhancing, ornamentalizing] what little true history remains as well as changing the characters and doctrines held by earlier Christian believers, and, often, in unbecoming rudeness, complain of all that is not agreeable to their liking.

In egregious [conspicuous] works, proudly proclaimed as the words of the Apostles, the Christian priesthood proliferates in their never-ending quest for fashionable consumption at the expense of the poor. God’s self-proclaimed agents of intolerance, in their moral decay, greed, and betrayal, will one day envelop this world in a war to end all wars, consenting to murder, in God’s name.

The belief that Pope Leo X began to indulge in unnatural vice after he became Pope was so seriously held in Rome that the two of the leading historians of his time recorded the information, The principal historians of the Patristic Period cannot always be completely trusted. ~The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. VI, pg. 14.

Guicciardini noted that the new Pope accepted the Pagan enjoyment of life and was Exceedingly devoted to the flesh, especially those pleasures, which cannot, with decency, be mentioned. ~Istoria d’Italia, 1832 ed., lib. xvi, ch. v, p. 254.

Christians, like those of old, enjoy reading those books that converse with the great and brave heroic souls of history long ago mythologized to enhance the character of persons who humbly accepted the Faith. An idle and vain study pursues those who attempt to right the errors of the priest craft intent on profiting upon their works, by doing so habitually incurring the wrath of the religious profiteers as well as the state it supports, in mankind’s acceptance of voluntary servitude.

Would that God, the Gift, would give us to see ourselves as others see us. If Christians could see themselves as others see them, they would be far more humble, far less self-sufficient and arrogant than they now are, think less highly of themselves, and far better of others, have less of love for themselves, and more for their fellow-beings, or rather, their self-love would be far more social in its consequences. ~See: A History of Freethought in the Nineteenth Century, J.M. Robertson, vol. 1, 76.

We cannot ignore the excessive madness of the early Christian fanatics who executed vast atrocities in the name of God, neither shold we forget their deceptions. Their heritage lives on in the 21st century as intolerance, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness as each of the various religious sects claims to be the One True Faith.

Religion is not endowed with the gift of God; for, were it so, mankind would live in peace, and not war against his neighbor. The priest craft has deceived man into believing that if he did not follow the dictates of an omnipotent God [all powerful], that he would be predestined to a fate worse than death, an eternal punishment, which would last beyond the countable years of mankind.

The promise of Eternal life cannot be proven; neither can an Eternal Punishment, neither can the supposed Christian eternal fiery abyss, yet billions have bowed down to the bitter tirades of priesthood in hopes of living once again, in a better life; a life with Jesus.

However, just in case there is an Eternal Life, the Catholic Church has decided that only Catholics can partake of this Paradise, only Catholics can arrive at forgiveness, The Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that all those who are outside the Catholic Church, not only Pagans, but also Jews, or heretics, and schismatics, cannot share in Eternal Life and will go into the everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless they are joined to the Church before the end of their lives… ~Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Cantate Domino, 1441:2.

A cursed and pernicious [destructive] way to proceed! Into the hearts and minds of a gullible people, supetstitious sayings are inculcated, repeated again, and again until memorization takes place, It is far easier to accept the impassioned and heartfelt pleas of the priesthood and Christian evangelical ministry than to accept the jaded truth. ~E Christopher Reyes, July 23, 2012. cf. Galatians 3:10.

There is no reasoning in discussing religion with a Christian, for long ago they threw raison d’être out the window, as the infamous Father Justin Martyr fallaciously states, It having reached the Devil’s ears that the Prophets had foretold the Coming of Christ, the Son of God, he set the heathen Poets to bring forward a great many who should be called the sons of Jove. The Devil laying his scheme in this, to get men to imagine that, the true history of Christ was of the same character as the prodigious fables related of the sons of Jove. ~I Apology, ch. 54; Ante-Nicene Fathers, a Collection of the extant Writings of all the Founders of Christianity down to the Council of Nicaea, or Nice, in 325 A.D. American Reprint, eight volumes. The Christian Literature Publishing Co., Buffalo, N.Y., 1885. Vol. 1, 181-182, Psalm 95, I Corinthians 10:20, Exodus 22:28.

Again, borrowing heavily from the Pagans, and their numerous Gods [Polytheism], the Christians rewrite history to include their new God, Jesus, Savior of the world, and all mankind, often reframing their doctrines as the situation dictated, Matthew’s Gospel contains the miraculous birth of Christ are, after numerous additions, not included in the earliest manuscripts, and it seems probable that the two poetical chapters in Luke may also have been unhistorical, falsified, and borrowed from the Egyptian Pagan accounts of the miraculous birth of their kings. ~cf. Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity, Samuel Sharpe, London: J.R. Smith, 1879, quoted in Bible Errors and Contradictions by P. Wesley Edwards.

The Christian Fathers have already anticipated opposition to their wondrous tales; their unbelievable stories, and efficacious [successful] anecdotes, and before Christianity, The Devil had blasphemously imitated the Christian rites and doctrines… Always seeing in Pagan analogies the trickery of devils. ~Catholic Encyclopedia, 393.

The Christians have Satan traveling back into history to advocate his future presence; ridiculous, scandalous, yet many Christians believe this preposterousness,Putting faith in a treacherous person, opens the door to harm. ~Seneca, OEdip., act iii., verse 686.

~Constantine [the Great Pagan, Sun worshiping Semi-God Emperor of Rome]

Emperor Constantine [Flavius Valerius Constantinus, at Nis on Feb. 27, 280, in what is now Serbia]; the bastard son of Constantius, and a Bithynian barmaid called Helena, who is now celebrated as a Saint in the Orthodox Church, although he was not in the Western Church.

This illegitimate son of Emperor Constantius, of which Saint Ambrose writes about in a significant sermon [De Obitu Theodosii, §42], which states that his mother was a tavern-girl [harlot, whore, prostitute]. ~cf. Deuteronomy 23:2.

During this time there was a great famine; a famine, which seriously affected the daily lives of every many a man who now considered the priesthood as a vocation in order to survive, "A famine did oppress them at the time, [in the time of Claudius], and many people died for the want of what was necessary to procure food withal. Queen Helena sent some of her servants to Alexandria with money to buy a great quantity of corn, and others of them to Cyprus to bring a cargo of dried figs." ~Flavius Josephus, Antiquities, b. xx. chap. 2, 5.

During Constantine’s most productive years, 312-337 C.E., the Roman Church essentially set Jesus aside and acknowledged Emperor Constantine as the Messiah [After all, being Emperor, he was already acknowledged as a Roman God].

In Egypt, under the Empire in Rome, the King was God; in Egypt by Divine descent, and in Rome by apotheosis, a deification [God making], elevation to a Divine status. Next time you’re in Washington D.C., look up at the ceiling in the Capital building, and witness George Washington, in white robes, sitting among the ancient Gods.

Christian tradition had not yet become the immutable dogma it is today and the Christian Fathers were yet to position themselves for both secular and religious power, which they received with the forged Donation of Constantine, and once the Church was adopted by Rome in the 4th century, it then became unlawful for the Scriptures to be given into the hands of the ordinary believer, thus, throughout most of Christian history the written text of the Scriptures was not to be made available to the uninitiated people, and the early Christian Church became even more Paganized and corrupt, and is referred to [in their own history] as the Synagogue of Satan. ~Revelations 2:9, 3:9.

No ancient literature was free from transformation, changes, or revision, yet Christian apologists claim the textual history of the New Testament differs materially from that of other ancient books. The works of classical literature were produced in peaceful conditions.

The manuscripts were copied by professional scribes who were not exposed to deliberate destruction, at any rate, until, after many centuries, when the Christian Church made war on Pagan literature.

The textual tradition, which has come down to us is probably from that of the great Pagan libraries, where good copies were preserved under the eyes of men of letters… In all these respects the fortunes of the Christian Scriptures were different, and the ancient libraries were often burned to the ground to hide the Christian plagiarisms. In the earliest days the Christians were a poor community, who would seldom have been able to command the services of professional scribes. There were no recognized centers for the promulgation of authorized copies of the Scriptures… Then there was always the danger of destruction… So long as Christianity was at best tolerated and at worst persecuted, the transcription and circulation of the Scriptures were exposed to difficulties from which the Pagan literature was free. ~F.G. Kenyon.

The so-called Christian Biblical [passed down by word of mouth] traditions preserved by the saintly Fathers of the Church are incredibly inadequate, and often of dubious nature, history showing most of the manuscripts offered as evidence to be forged documents, but from what exists they are all considered within the impressive Apostolic description of Saint Peter and Saint John, Ignorant and unlearned men, which Bishop Papias, as described by Bishop Eusebius, Men of very small minds, if we may judge from their own words. ~The Saintly Fathers of the Faith by Joseph Wheless. Cf. Acts 4:13.

Constantine will go down in history as suppressing the Gnostic Gospels, being a devout Christian, and in place of Gnosticism, he will impose his approved Canonical Gospels on the church; a fact which Christian writers deny, but, as Emperor, and head of the Council, he had the last word, and no one dare vote against him.

Constantine also took this opportune moment to inaugurate the first systematic government persecution of dissident Christians by issuing an edict against Heretics, calling them Haters and enemies of truth and life, in league with destruction.

Emperor Constantine altered the Christian Scriptures to say, In thee I am well pleased, instead of Today I have begotten thee; a change, amongst many other Scriptural revisions, which have altered the very mindset, and thinking, of today’s Christian followers who have been indoctrinated to follow corrupted institutionalized programs.

The deity of Jesus Christ, as Messiah, Lord, and Savior, was not a doctrine of the Orthodox Church until the Council of Nicaea [325 C.E], which means there was no New Testament comprised of 1st or 2nd century writings until the 4th century, and undeniably most of these affirmations of the deity of Christ were forged during this period.

Who sat in on the Nicene Council? Who was really in charge… the Emperor, or the Church? Constantine, as Roman Emperor, and Pontifex Maximus, made all the final decisions regarding what is to be approved at this great meeting of Bishops. Emperor Constantine was still a Pagan, yet, he has the last word on what he felt would be the ‘New Christianity,’ what he felt necessary in his realm in order to maintain peace and order, what he felt was to be accepted in his realm, "I understand, then, that the origin of this controversy is this, [the question stated by Alexander on this point, and the negative reply of Arius]. Let therefore both the unguarded question and the inconsiderate answer receive your mutual forgiveness… For as long as you continue to contend about these small and insignificant questions, it is not fitting that so large a portion of God’s people should be under the direction of your judgment, since you are thus divided among yourselves!" ~Bishop Eusebius, Life of Constantine, II, 69-71; Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. I, 516-7.

Constantine gave the Orthodox Church the tools with which to create a new history of Christianity when he molded Christianity in his own image and made Jesus the only Son of God. Henceforth, the Church will become the dire representative of a capricious and oppressive God, a God who was not unlike Constantine and previous Roman Emperors.

Constantine said that the day of the sun would be made a day of rest, Sun Day, but it’s very blurred as to whether the day of the sun meant the day dedicated to the Sun God or the day dedicated to Jesus and his Resurrection. Christian Apologists claim that the Roman Church did not create Canon, but it most certainly rewrote it, In establishing the Canon, the Church authorities of the 2nd and succeeding centuries only subsequently ratified the decisions, which had already been reached by the Christian communities, or more exactly, by the individual believers. The organized Church as such did not create the Canon; it recognized the Canon, which had already been created. It is only from the second half of the 4th century onwards, in connection with the closing of the Canon, that the Church authorities began to have an effect. ~David G. Meade, Pseudonymity and Canon, p. 206, 1986.

What’s in, what’s out, what’s rewritten, that is what is decided, not on Divine Inspiration, Divine Power, nor Divine Providence, but on the prerogatives of the various disputing Bishops. But, the Christianity refuses to accept factual history, claiming, It was clear from my study that the Church had, in fact, determined, which books composed the Scriptures. ~Which Came First: The Church or the New Testament? Fr. James Bernstein, Orthodox churchman, 1994, p. 15.

The First Council of Nicaea, in 325 C.E., rejected the Book of Revelation, but the Second Council of Laodicea, in 363 C.E., by Church Authority accepted the Book of Revelation. "If she [The Orthodox Church] had not declared the books composing the New Testament to be Inspired Word of God, we would not know it." It was the Church, and not Divine Inspiration that decided what is to be the Word of God, The only authority, which non-Catholics have for the Inspiration of the Scriptures is the authority of the Catholic Church. ~The Faith of Millions, p. 145. cf. John 21:15-17.

Self appointed leaders of the priest craft declare what is Inspired, and what is not, It is only by the Divine Authority of the Catholic Church that Christians know that the Scripture is the ‘Word of God,’ and what books certainly belong to the Bible. ~The Question Box, p. 46.

Augustine exalted the supreme authority of the church over that of the Bible, declaring, I should not believe the Gospel unless I were moved to do so by the authority of the Catholic Church. ~Augustine, quoted by Pope John Paul II, Augustineum Hyponensem, Apostolic Letter, August 28, 1986, www.cin.org/jp2.ency/augustin.html.

The great work of Lactantius, The Divine Institutes, is dedicated to the Roman Emperor God, and thus addressed, We now commence this work under the auspices of your name, ‘O mighty Emperor Constantine, who were the first of the Roman princes to repudiate errors, and to acknowledge and honor the majesty of the one and only true God.’ ~Lactantius, The Divine Institutes, vol. I, i.

The work, The Divine Institutes, is written in seven lengthy Books, which occupy over 200 double-columns of vol. VII of the Ante-Nicene Fathers, and written for the purpose of confirming the sun worshiping [Sol Invictus] Pagan Constantine in this very uncertain Christian faith, as well as to appeal for the conversion of the higher classes of the Pagans under Imperial favor; no other work of the Christian Fathers is more positive in the recognition of the Pagan Gods as being Divine realities, who are rather demons of very active malignity [malicious behavior], and none other equal him in profuse appeals to the Pagan Gods and the [Greek] Sibyls as their prophetesses, as Divine Testimonies to Jesus Christ, and virtually every natural and supernatural act attributed to him in the romanticized [imaginary] Gospels. It is better to make doubt of those things, which are secret, than to strive about those things that are uncertain. ~Saint Augustine, li. S. de Genes. ad liter., cap. 5.

In fact, Lactantius’ whole work is a sort of digest of Pagan mythology taken as being Divinely True and Inspired antecedents [past histories], and evidences of the fictitious facts of this new Paganism, now called Christianity.

Was the Church in charge as it claims today? As a Roman God, Constantine, a ruthless opportunist, always got what he wanted, always in charge, "He [Constantine] not only convened the Ecumenical Council but directed it through a Bishop whom he had commissioned, with the assistance of imperial commissioners; he adjourned it and concluded it; by his decision the resolutions of the council became imperial laws. Constantine used this first council not least to adapt the church organization to the state organization… It was now clear to Constantine, the political strategist, that the imperial church needed more than just the more or less varied confessions of faith of the individual local or provincial churches. It needed a uniform ‘Ecumenical Creed,’ and this was to be the Church Law and Imperial Law for all the churches. He believed that only in this way could he ensure the unity of the Empire under the slogan ‘One God, One Emperor, One Kingdom, One Church, and One Faith.’" ~Hans Kung.

The early Church Fathers had built a strong organization, one in which their hierarchy demanded obedience, blind obedience, complete submission to their Creeds, and absolute surrender to their religious works, a fact which survives today in refusing their flock to read anything but their own literature, and creation of literary books, which are also banned. Yet what was Christian heresy? And for that matter, what was the Church? Most of our knowledge of early Christian history comes from the writings of Bishop Eusebius of Caesarea in the 4th century. Eusebius was in many ways a conscientious historian, and he had access to multitudes of sources, which have since disappeared… He wanted to show that the Church he represented had always constituted the mainstream of Christianity, both in organization and faith. The truth is very different… A dominant Orthodox Church, with a recognizable Ecclesiastical structure, emerged only very gradually. ~Paul Johnson, A History of Christianity, p. 43.

And, contrary to Christianized history, under Emperor Theodosius and a later emperor named Valentinian, all writings considered hostile to the rising Catholic Church, including many Christian works, now deemed heretical, were to be burned.

Theodosius, after reigning for ten years on the throne of the Roman Empire, proposed to celebrate the anniversary. It was the custom on such an Imperial occasion to give donations to the army; every soldier had an addition to his pay. To meet this expense, Theodosius announced that a tax would be also be levied on the larger cities [the priesthood is exempt].

Of these cities Antioch was a third in size of the Empire for both size and wealth. But the Antiochians hated to be taxed, so, when the proclamation was publicly and officially read it was received in an ominous [menacing] silence, and then the reading was followed by a calamitous riot as the public buildings were attacked by a frenzied mob. ~The Early Church, from Ignatius to Augustine by George Hodges

It was the half God, Roman Emperor Constantine who ordered the building of the Church of the Nativity at Bethlehem, and that at Christmas time, the 25th of December, festival completely unknown to the early church, was invented. The living human Divinity design came from the Pharaohs, as their subjects considered Egyptian rulers Gods, and when Julius Caesar conquered Egypt, he brought this concept back with him to Rome.

It was Constantine, with his majestically proclaimed ideology, which will change the course of history as he supports the new Christian faith, and under his absolute rule declares that, Socrates’ critical questioning… Was a menace to the state, and declares that, Pythagoras had stolen his teaching from Egypt.

It was Constantine, who decided to change the radical Christ who was worshiped by the early Christian Church; changes, which would be placed in the margins of Christian history to be later replaced with the infinitely more accommodating religion of the Holy baby and the cross.

It is Pope Constantine [as Pontifex Maximus, Bishop of Bishop, Priest of priests] who changed the place of the Resurrection of Christ, for Constantine knew from skill that the great power of the Christian message, which could be preached of the Resurrection of a Savior Christ, Believers in Jesus all congregate from all parts of the world… That they may worship at the Mount Of Olives opposite the city… To the cave, the cave that is shown there. ~Bishop Eusebius, Proof of the Gospel, Bk. VI. ch. 18.

Another destination for the credulous Christian pilgrims was the town of Bethlehem, where Jesus was allegedly born in the springtime, and not the cold winter month of December, "They [Prophets] foretold the wondrous fashion of his birth from a Virgin, and strangest of all, they did not omit to name Bethlehem the place of his birth, which is today so famous that men still hasten from the ends of the earth to see it, but shouted it out with the greatest clearness." ~Bishop Eusebius, The Proof of the Gospel, Bk. 1, p. 2. cf. erroneous translation of Isaiah 7:14. Note: when Matthew quoted Isaiah 7:14 he did so from the Septuagint, and not from the Hebrew Old Testament. cf. Matthew 1:24-25. Cf. Luke 2:48, Joseph is Jesus’ father(?).

The alleged Virgin Birth of Jesus is a lie perpetrated by the Church to counteract the virgin birth celebrated by the abundant Pagan followers [the Church claims that Mary was a virgin before, during, and after the birth of Jesus].

The saints get in on the act with, This door will be closed and it will not be opened.’ This good door is Mary, who was closed and was not opened. Christ passed through her but did not open her… There is a door of the womb, although it is not always closed; indeed only one was able to remain closed, she through whom the virgin’s offspring came forth without loss of genital intactness. ~Saint Ambrose, De Institutione Virginum.

A deception, which always causes great argument and hostilities among themselves as well as other faiths, is the various translations of the Bible, "To burn Bible: New York, November 24 [Special], Pastor Luther Hux, of a breakaway Baptist Church in South Carolina, sought a fire department permit to burn a Bible in his church, because he objected to the substitution of ‘Young woman’ for ‘Virgin’ in Isaiah 7:14. A university expert said it was a correction of a mistake in translation in the old King James version of the Bible." ~The Courier-Mail, Brisbane, Australia, 25 November 1952, front page.

With the profuse onslaught of various Biblical translations, Saint Augustine says, that the variety of translations is profitable for the finding out of the sense of the Scriptures: so diversity of signification and sense in the margin, where the text is no so clear, must needs do good, yea, is necessary, as we are persuaded. ~Saint Augustine, 2. De doctr. Christian, cap. 14.

Changing the facts, changing events, changing history, is what great men do. It is Constantine, who will make the technological [deceitful] change that supposedly will advance the human race. Constantine, the Great, will change and falsify historical events to unite his Empire under one God, One Leader, and One Faith.

* It is Constantine who changed the place of the Resurrection of Christ.

* It is Constantine who changed the time of the Resurrection of Christ.

* It is Constantine who changed the time of the birth of Christ [to the 25th of December, later by Denny the Dwarf].

* It is Constantine who changed the Scriptural method of becoming a Christian.

* It is Constantine who changed the relationship of Christianity to the state.

* It is Constantine who changed the headquarters from Jerusalem to Rome and Constantinople. ~Constantine’s Six Major Changes to Christianityby Niall Kilkenny, http://www.reformation.org/6-constantinian-changes.html

This new faith will systematically dissect and reconstruct Pagan beliefs to suit their fancy, plagiarizing, when necessary, "Always the Church has forcefully molded words, and even concepts [as Savior, Epiphany, Baptism, Illumination, Mysteries, Logos], to suit her own Dogma and its expression. It was thus that John could take the [Pagan] expression ‘Logos,’ mold it to his Dogma, cut short all perilous speculation among Christians, and assert once for all that the ‘Word was made Flesh’ and was Jesus Christ." ~Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. xi, 392.

The Romans had no penalty for verbal attacks on their Gods, but did have punishments for those who refused to honor the Emperor as a Living God. ~cf. Leviticus 24:16.

Although Constantine is a worshiped as a semi-God, and his word is law, not everyone agreed with him, "The Son is sprung from things non-existent, or from another substance and not from God, and that there was a time or age when He was not. The Father and the Son are two Gods. To an independent political observer, public opinion about Jesus is not at all positive and orthodox, and reflects a position that he certainly is not to be regarded as coming from God, but rather has sprung from nothing existing. A new God has been invented. The literature of the new God [of Emperor Constantine] is fiction." ~Arius, Hilary of Poitiers’ De Synodis: Promoted to Bishop in 350 C.E.

Without the approval, and support of Emperor Constantine, Christianity would not have flourished, but with this power came a new authority, an authority, which the Orthodox Church then claimed, This is no case of a revolution led by a group, hitherto without rights and oppressed, hastening to turn the world upside down. The existence of Paganism is not threatened by elements breaking through from below; it is the holder of the armed forces who suddenly sets himself to oust it. His first steps are slow and conciliatory, but his purpose is plain and unambiguous. ~Andreás Alföldi, The Conversion of Constantine and Pagan Rome, Oxford, 1969, p. 28. cf. John 21:15-17.

Unfortunately, historically speaking, there is no evidence of any such authority being distributed by Jesus in the Bible, and there were no Bishops of Rome in the 1st century, hence the Universal Roman Catholic Church’s pronouncement that there is an unbroken line of Bishops, starting with Peter, in their Apostolic Succession from Rome is false, Bishops are the successors of the Apostles by Divine Institution, remains far from easy to establish… The first problem has to do with the notion that Christ ordained Apostles as Bishops… The Apostles were missionaries and founders of churches; there is no evidence, nor is it at all likely, that any one of them ever took up permanent residence in a particular church as its Bishop… The letter of the Romans to the Corinthians, known as I Clement, which dates to about the year 96 C.E., provides good evidence that about 30 years after the death of Saint Paul the Church of Corinth was being led by a group of presbyters, with no indication of a Bishop with authority over the whole local church… Most scholars are of the opinion that the Church of Rome would most probably have also been led at that time by a group of presbyters… There exists a broad consensus among scholars, including most Catholic ones, that such Churches as Alexandria, Philippi, Corinth and Rome most probably continued to be led for some time by a college of presbyters, and that only in the 2nd century did the threefold structure of become generally the rule, with a Bishop, assisted by presbyters, presiding over each local Church. ~Sullivan F.A., From Apostles to Bishops: the Development of the Episcopacy in the Early Church, Newman Press, Mahwah, NJ, 2001, pp. 13,14,15. cf. Acts 2:10, Acts 18:2, and II Timothy 1:16-18. cf. John 21:15-17.

If you want to write good Scripture, then use someone’s name, which was well known, and accepted in the early Christian years, "Many writings have been falsely attributed to Pope Saint Clement: The ‘Second Clementine Epistle to the Corinthians.’ Many critics have believed them genuine [they having been read in the Churches]. … But it is now admitted on all hands that they cannot be by the same author as the genuine [?] Epistle to the Corinthians… ‘Two Epistles to Virgins.’ At the head of the Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals stand five letters attributed to Saint Clement. Ascribed to Clement are the ‘Apostolic Constitutions,’ ‘Apostolic Canons,’ and the ‘Testament of our Lord.’ The ‘Clementines’ or ‘Pseudo-Clementines,’ including the ‘Recognitions and Homilies,’ hereafter to be noticed." ~Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 4, 14-15; cf. 17, 39.

In the early Church, as today, controversy swelled over the numerous fantastic claims by the new faith, but the gullible masses enjoyed a good story; they enjoyed hearing of heroes; they loved to be entertained with varied and wonderous tales, This doctrine of ‘Virginity in childbirth,’ which cannot be abandoned without having the whole artificial structure of Mary’s ‘Perpetual Virginity’ collapsing on itself, is an especially crass example of the fantastic lengths people will go in order to make Mary over into a virgin… Mary is supposed to have borne Jesus as if he were a ray of light or transfigured, as he was after his Resurrection, or like the burning bush, which was not consumed, or ‘The way Spirits pass through bodies without resistance… Putting aside the question of whether Christ, if he was born like a sort of ray, nevertheless became man, the dignity of a woman cannot be manifested by making her into the mother of a beam of light. By separating Mary so radically from other women who have borne children, one may have given her, from the Mariological standpoint, something crucially important. But from the human standpoint one has taken something just as crucial away. Anyone who claims that Mary maintained her biological virginity in childbirth, like the birth of an idea of a pure spirit, has to realize that he is robbing her of her motherhood. ~The Little Hiss From Hell: The Perpetual Virginity of the Blessed Virgin Mary from De Maria Numquam Satis [About Mary Never Enough].

Christians sit smugly in Church, listening to the rector, priest, father, minister, or reverend delivering his sermon on Scripture and what Jesus, or the Apostles said in the Bible, not knowing, that if they researched the history of Scriptures, or Epistles, of the eight Epistles, and the Martyrium, they are acknowledged forgeries, They are by common consent set aside as forgeries, which were at various dates and to serve special purposes, put forth under the name of the celebrated Bishop of Antioch. ~Anti-Nicene Fathers, Vol. I, 46; E. vii, p. 645.

No one dare challenge the Emperor, the penalty could be death, and with its newly gained influence the Church will begin its persecutions of others [non-Christian] using their newly gained powers to become judge, jury, and executioners, Not as a proletarian mass movement but as a relatively small cluster of more or less intense groups, largely middle class in origin. At the time when the Emperor Constantine turned toward Christianity, the aristocracy was definitely Pagan… What made the Roman world Christian is what Eusebius and others said made it Christian: the conversion of Constantine. The triumph of Christianity in a hierarchically organized society necessarily took place from the top down. ~Robert M. Grant, Early Christianity and Society, New York, 1977.

What have the Greeks to do with Scripture? What have the Greek myths and Christian folklore have in common? They were consolidated, "But the Greeks speak of Him [Jesus] as the ‘Logos,’ more befittingly than we do as the ‘Word,’ or speech: for Logos signifies both speech and reason inasmuch as He is both the speech and reason of God… Zeno represents the Logos as the arranger of the established order of things, and the framer of the universe… For it is the spirit of God, which he named the soul of Jupiter. For Trismegistus, who by some means or other searched into almost all Truth, often describes the excellence and majesty of the Word." ~Lactantius, Divine Inst. IV, viii-ix; Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. vii, 106-7. cf. John 1:1-3.

The theology of the Hebrews is rewritten to encompass a new more forgiving God, a God with a more humane image, a God which entails the belief in Salvation, Resurrection, Eternal Life, and most of the elements already encased in Pagan thought, which conveys the dilemma, if Christianity has all of the elements of the Pagans, why would one need them, for does not Christianity absorb all into one? "The inconceivable goodness of our God forbids that mankind should continue to wander in the dark.’’ ~Emperor Constantine writing to the Synod of Arles, 314 C.E.

God Forbid, as translated in Romans 3:4, 6,31; 6:2, 15; 7:7, 13; 9:14; 11:1,11; I Corinthians 6:15, and Galatians 2:17; 3:21; 6:14 is in fact, May it not be, or Let it not be, but the tainted KJV adds the word God where it is altogether absent in the Textus Receptus, because it was a common expression in 1600’s, which is proof that the translators used active comparables, although the Textus Receptus itself was based on a very few, late scripts, not one of which contained the entire Greek New Testament, and none earlier than the 12th century, and in the matter of the Book of Revelation, a missing page was translated from the Latin Vulgate back to the Greek; Acts 9:6, although found in Jerome’s Latin Vulgate, the Textus Receptus is not found in any Greek manuscript at all. ~The Translators Were Not Inspired In Their Work Of Translation by Edgar J. Goodspeed.

Contrary to what some historians state, the transition from Paganism to Christianity was not all successful, nor was it a smooth transition, as Pagan temples were looted, Pagans persecuted, and Imperial edicts issued against the practice of Paganism. Once Constantine became convinced that the new Christian God offered him a greater success, and security, than did the immortal Pagan Gods of Rome the change from Paganism to Christianity occurred rapidly and smoothly. ~cf. W. H. C. Frend, The Rise of Christianity, Philadelphia, 1984, p. 904.

Christian Churches deny their fellowship free inquiry, Reason and free inquiry are the only effective agents against error. Give a loose to them; they will support the True Religion by bringing every false one to their tribunal, to the test of their investigation. They are the natural enemies of error and error only. Had not the Roman government permitted free inquiry, Christianity could never have been introduced. Had not free inquiry been indulged at the era of the Reformation, the corruption of Christianity could not have been purged away. ~Thomas Jefferson, American Colonialist, Free Thinker, President.

No one knows how to interpret the Bible, but those who helped write it, after much equivocation, did not question the Church, It is only within the Church that we find Scripture interpreted rightly, and it is only within the Church that we find the Gospel. ~The Shape Of Sola Scriptura, Keith A. Mathison, Reformed Protestant, 2001, p 268.

No layman can interpret, write, or read the Bible; only the Church has the authority to administer interpretations, "Furthermore, in order to restrain petulant spirits, It decrees, that no one, relying on his own skill, shall, in matters of Faith, and of morals pertaining to the edification of Christian doctrine, wresting the Sacred Scripture to his own senses, presume to interpret