WAS THERE A DA VINCI CONSPIRACY -PART 6

  WAS THERE A                   DA VINCI                         CONSPIRACY?

    PART 6

    (copied from
      Y-Jesus.om)


This brings us to our second issue: Why were
these mysterious gnostic gospels destroyed, and
excluded from the New Testament?  

In the book Teebing asserts that the Gnostic  writings were eliminated from 50 authorized 
Bibles commissioned at the council: He excitedly
tells Neveu:
"Because Constantine upgraded Jesus' status
almost four centuries after Jesus' death, thousands
of documents already existed  chronicling His 
life as a mortal man. To rewrite the history books,
Constantine knew that he would need a bold stroke. From this sprang the most profound 
moment in Christian history. .... Constantine
commissioned and financed a new Bible which
omitted those gospels which spoke of Christ's 
human traits and embellished those that made
Him godlike. The earlier gospels were outlawed,
gathered up and burned."

Are these Gnostic writings the real history of
Jesus Christ?  Let us take a deeper look to see
if we can separate truth from fiction.

Secret  "Knowers"
The Gnostic gospels are attributed to a group 
known as ( a big surprise here) the Gnostics. 
Their name come from the Greek word  gnosis, meaning knowledge. These people thought they
had secret, special knowledge hidden from ordinary people.

Of the 52 writings, only five are actually listed 
as gospels. As we shall see, these  so-called  
gospels are markedly different from the New
Testament gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and
John.

As Christianity spread the Gnostics mixed some
doctrines and elements  of Christianity into their
beliefs, morphing Gnosticism into a counterfeit
Christianity. Perhaps they did it to keep  recruitment numbers up and make Jesus a poster child for their cause. However, for their system 
of thought to fit with Christianity, Jesus needed 
to be stripped of both His humanity and His
absolute deity. 

In the Oxford History of
Christianity, John McManners wrote of 
the Gnostic's mixture of
Christian and mythical
beliefs.

"Gnosticism was (and 
still is) a theosophy with
many ingredients. Occultism and oriental mysticism became fused with astrology, magic.....
they collected sayings of Jesus, shaped to fit
their own interpretation (as in the gospel of Thomas) and offered their adherents an alternative of rival form of Christianity.

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