I listened the other day to a television evangelist claim that the Christian religion did not evolve from Catholicism. I think he was trying to say his born again money-grabbing church was the real truth. He was of course right, philosophically speaking. The Roman Catholic Church will say otherwise. Let me point out that Constantine gathered the various chapters of the Bible as we know it and destroyed chapters that didn’t conform to the social political position of the time. His edits left us with the modern Roman Catholic Bible. However, there were two thoughts competing for acceptance in early Christian theology. One group believed Jesus was both God’s son on earth and God himself (trinity). This became the Dogma of the Roman Catholic Church. The other group believed what Jesus taught was far more important than whom the man was. Constantine and others spent years trying to eradicate their competition's truth. So those who opposed Constantine would find false prophets in the church's lineage from Rome to Canterbury to the American Televangelists. To some, all are preaching two thousand year old lies.
I listened the other day to a television evangelist claim that the Christian religion did not evolve from Catholicism. I think he was trying to say his born again money-grabbing church was the real truth. He was of course right, philosophically speaking. The Roman Catholic Church will say otherwise. Let me point out that Constantine gathered the various chapters of the Bible as we know it and destroyed chapters that didn’t conform to the social political position of the time. His edits left us with the modern Roman Catholic Bible. However, there were two thoughts competing for acceptance in early Christian theology. One group believed Jesus was both God’s son on earth and God himself (trinity). This became the Dogma of the Roman Catholic Church. The other group believed what Jesus taught was far more important than whom the man was. Constantine and others spent years trying to eradicate their competition's truth. So those who opposed Constantine would find false prophets in the church's lineage from Rome to Canterbury to the American Televangelists. To some, all are preaching two thousand year old lies.
