Cyril of Alexandria
The great murderer of many Jews and Christians alike... Anyone in Alexandria that disagreed with his view of the church was murdered, and Alexandria's libraries (the most famous and by-far most modernly advanced collection of books and scientists at 5th century) burned also. His prolific view which led to his revisionist book-burning:
"Cyril regarded the embodiment of God in the person of Jesus Christ to be so mystically powerful that it spread out from the body of the God-man into the rest of the race, to reconstitute human nature into a graced and deified condition of the saints, one that promised immortality and transfiguration to believers."
Cyril wrote various hate decrees, such as "Discourse Against Arians." (a book used to persecute un-believers of his own faith)
Cyril became famous by his role in murdering many Jews and Christians of Alexandria.
and his revisionist writings including A Coomentary of the Gospel of St. Luke (re-writing what Luke says).
And by the way, his Catholic feast day is on June 9th and his name is widely-celebrated among Catholic traditions... make way and exault the great murderer of the True Alexandria.
My info came from Wikipedia and its many links, check it out for yourself!
3/25/2007
Moses is not Re-Enforced by New Testament
Mark 10:2-6
"And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, 'Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife?' tempting him.
And he answered and said unto them, 'What did Moses command you?'
And they said, 'Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.'
And Jesus answered and said unto them, 'For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.'"
"And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, 'Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife?' tempting him.
And he answered and said unto them, 'What did Moses command you?'
And they said, 'Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.'
And Jesus answered and said unto them, 'For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.'"
3/22/2007
Oldest NT Fragment known: VERY INTERESTING!!!
7Q5 is a fragment of papyrus found in cave 7 that dates 50BC-50AD (AD and BC are both pre- and post- birth of Christ = 100 years difference).
This fragment is belived to be Mark 6:52-53 ("...For they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened. And when they had passed over, they came into the land of Gennesaret, and drew to the shore." -KJV), according to the 20 letters in 5 lines of text.
The signifigance is that this fragment is the oldest documented version of the New Testament, dating the Book of Mark before 50AD, only 17 years after Christ's death. The closest-dated traditional gospel is Luke, but afterwards in 60AD.
So it is safe to say that Mark is the oldest of the 4 gospels, and prob most reliable or copied.
This fragment is belived to be Mark 6:52-53 ("...For they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened. And when they had passed over, they came into the land of Gennesaret, and drew to the shore." -KJV), according to the 20 letters in 5 lines of text.
The signifigance is that this fragment is the oldest documented version of the New Testament, dating the Book of Mark before 50AD, only 17 years after Christ's death. The closest-dated traditional gospel is Luke, but afterwards in 60AD.
So it is safe to say that Mark is the oldest of the 4 gospels, and prob most reliable or copied.
52 Scriptural Texts not in The (traditional) Bible...
The Nag Hammadi Library Books
These are 52 ancient texts found in 12 leather-bound books (including a few pages of a 13th book) that were found in December 1945. The most famous and most controversial (oh yes!) is The Gospel of Truth, The Gospel of Thomas ("secret words of Jesus"), and The Apocryphon of James.
As you watch the National Geographic video "The Gospel of Judas", it is explained that the early Orthodox Christian Church was in a rush to find "a meaning " to become martyrs for the Christian faith, in which there was presently no Bible.
Most early Christians had invdividual texts. For example, one church may have preached of the Gospel of Matthew, while another church preached of the Gospel of Judas, but neither preached of both.
So, the French Bishop Ireneus decided to construct the Bible of the 4 gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John).
... And later was added Revelation and "the other stuff" (Acts-Jude), as I call it (because Christ never had a word in any of them, except for the Book of Revelation, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John).
These are 52 ancient texts found in 12 leather-bound books (including a few pages of a 13th book) that were found in December 1945. The most famous and most controversial (oh yes!) is The Gospel of Truth, The Gospel of Thomas ("secret words of Jesus"), and The Apocryphon of James.
As you watch the National Geographic video "The Gospel of Judas", it is explained that the early Orthodox Christian Church was in a rush to find "a meaning " to become martyrs for the Christian faith, in which there was presently no Bible.
Most early Christians had invdividual texts. For example, one church may have preached of the Gospel of Matthew, while another church preached of the Gospel of Judas, but neither preached of both.
So, the French Bishop Ireneus decided to construct the Bible of the 4 gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John).
... And later was added Revelation and "the other stuff" (Acts-Jude), as I call it (because Christ never had a word in any of them, except for the Book of Revelation, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John).
2/21/2007
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