the burning of ancient manuscripts

Not true. Click here for links.

 

Constantine the Great certainly had opportunity to manipulate what was published in his empire. There is a lot of speculation as to what exactly he did for the cause of Christ. In as much as he showed no evidence of having been redeemed by the Blood of The Lamb, I expect he was following his father--the author of confusion and all lies.

Constantine's religious progeny, the holy see, went to great lengths to destroy the English Bible and those who would be translators thereof. See: History of the English Bible.

Satan does not want the Truth to be made public.

The religions of the world have not a clue.

Selah,

Bro. James

 

Loss and Preservation of Ancient Literature

 

I think we should spend less time worrying about the books we don't have (if any) and more time studying and memorizing the ones we do. There's plenty enough to fill a lifetime.

 

Grahame,
The VERY FIRST thing you should tell this person is that Dan Brown admitted, in a court of law, that his book was fiction.

It's like saying, "Hey, that book by Tom Clancy, 'Red October'? Did that really happen, and the military covered it up?"

I haven't read Dan Brown's books. Maybe some day. But before I start reading them, I already know they're fiction, and that I can find most, if not all, of the conspiracy theories in them on the internet somewhere.

As for the books that weren't included in our Bible today, there are many authentic books and articles, not written by Dan Brown, that explain those things.

There is only one truth that the individual has to decide: Is Jesus God? If a work of fiction can induce an individual to question that, then no matter how much proof you provide, you'll only be convincing them in the head, not the heart.

 

Regardless of whether he burnt many manuscripts or not, we still have the KJV Bible which is what God wants us to have. And praise God for that!

 

True that. God will preserve His Word regardless of those in opposition to It.

 

Burn scriptures

Nope. It is the tendancies of people who feel the gnostic bibles should be included into christian beliefs to in effect make it more worldly and immoral. The gnostics had a tendancy for sexual promiscuity. If we alowed for the gnostic gospels then we can make christianity say anything. Constantine (though he had a problem with Arius and his heresy) differed to the church leaders for unifying the beliefs in the church. He attended the synod or church council but it was a majority vote for acceptance of belief issues particularily when it came to the trinity. Arius was way out voted though the Jehovas witnesses make the same mistake today he did then. The early church fathers discredited the gnostic believers as heretics. For a sample of what these gnostics believed you should read Ireaneaus Against Heresies. Also read Eusibius Ecclesiastical History.

 

Burning

They did. Ireaneus mentions this in against Heresies saying that women were lead into inproper relationships with men who had the secret gnosis. Also Marcion was forced to leave his home church and community in Turkey because he knocked up a girl there. I could go on and on. Gnostics primarily used aspects of greek philosophy and peganism to explain christianity an to create a gnosis by which you could be saved. Once you had this gnosis you were free to be immoral. There are similarities with the cult of Dionyses (sorry my spelling is off). The gnostics primarily believed that the material world was corrupt (bad, evil). To have a secret knowledge generally allowed you to spiritually move in the upper or greater planes. Once you had this secret knowledge (gnosis) you were above material things. Sometimes this led to sexual immorality, or extreme life styles to break down the body. It also led to errors such as Jesus wasn't trully human or he was entirely human and not divine. Or that he seemingly died ect...
A lot of literature was lost (not necissarily scripture) when the Romans burned Alexandria down but that was during Octavius civil war with Mark Antony. Not Constantine.