The Historical Jesus Christ. The Roman dogma vs history. The history of Jesus and the history of Christianity that we know today. Roman empire forced on all its provinces. When Constantine. Christianity, Rome became the center of power also for. Christianity and any challenging center was wiped out. The. crusader st. East Retford Baptisms 16531901 A searchable transcript of baptism registers. They list parents names their occupations, residence and sometimes other details. What Jesus really said and meant will probably never be known. A new wave of Historical Jesus research has emerged in the. Egypt of the ancient manuscripts that are. Nag Hammadi library and as Gnostic Gospels. Dj Marlboro Bem Funk 2006. Dead Sea Scrolls in 1. Estrategicos Y Audaces Pdf'>Estrategicos Y Audaces Pdf. The Good Wife TV Series 20092016 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Until then, little was known about the early Christians known as the Gnostics. Weve listened to the winners, and their story doesnt make any sense. H89sKKobo/hqdefault.jpg' alt='The Barnstone Method' title='The Barnstone Method' />So lets listen to the losers and see if their story makes more sense Freke. The other gospels. Many gospels were written, including and besides the four official ones. The four official gospels were written in Greece in Greek, the earliest. Marks dating. from the year 7. Johns dating from the second century. The oldest manuscript of the gospels that we found dates from the fourth. There is general agreement that three of the official ones the synoptic. Lukes and Matthews simply derive from Marks. Johns is inherently different. One hypothesis is that. Johns and this common source derive, in turn, from a pre existing. Q, that has never been found. One of the banned gospels. Judas Thomas, has been considered a potential candidate for. Q or for something closer to Q than anything else we have found. Note that the very first gospel 7. AD was written when Christianity had already. Roman Empire, and emperor Nero had already started. Christians 6. 4AD. Johns gospel is markedly different from the other three gospels it names. Cana and the raising of Lazarus that the other. It sounds more knowledgeable it. Jesus and the rivalry. Jesus sect and John the Baptists sect. The account of Jesus. Yet, Johns gospel is unquestionably a later work than the other three. It is also likely that the gospels as we know them have been heavily. Papias of Hierapolis in 1. St Matthew. as a collections of oracles, not of miracles. All four official gospels were written after Paul wrote his letters. Pauls letters are the oldest Christian documents. But Paul admits he never. Jesus and, in fact, his letters contain almost no reference at all to. Irenaeus at the end of the second century is the first Christian writer. Before him there is no mention of those gospels as being the only. Justin Martyr 1. New Testament, does not. Mark, Matthew, Luke or John. On the other hand, he mentions the. Peter and others mostly not recognized by the Church. Paul and the acts of the Apostles. In 1. 70 Tatian admits he was working on a new gospel that would summarize. Christians were still writing and. Also in the second century, Clement of Alexandria admits that two versions of. Marks gospel existed but one was being suppressed because it contained two. Christians both passages. Lazarus being Jesus lover and his. Thus, the texts were being chosen, edited and purged for the first two centuries. Christian era. That process had solidified by the time Irenaeus wrote that there were only. Irenaeus choice was formalized in 3. Nicaea, where. those four gospels became the official dogma of the Roman Church and all. Jesus were banned. Irenaeus picked only a fraction of the available literature on Jesus. He excluded some of the most popular texts, such as the gospel of Thomas. Hebrews by far the two most popular texts among. Christians. Either the memory was lost of what was old and what was. Irenaeus claims that Mark and Luke were eyewitness which of course they. Church was already at work to completely reinvent the story. Jesus to suit whatever ideology. For example, if one wanted people to believe in Pauls letters, then he. The fact is that the dogma immediately ignited a very contentious issue. Texts outlawed by Rome paint a very different picture of Jesus teaching. Christians. Sometimes Jesus appears as a sort of communist revolutionary, sometimes as. Buddhist thinker. In the most ancient texts he rarely appears as the. Jesus who makes miracles and ascended to heaven, and sometimes does not appear. Sometimes he barely appears at all, while others James, Paul. Peter, the most famous of Jesus followers. Christian documents. Today, it is sometimes difficult to understand why some gospels were banned. Several of the banned gospels are apparently consistent with the dogma. The devil is probably in the details in 3. Christianity had. Roman empire and it was not nice to emphasize that. Romans who had killed Jesus in 3. Christianity had taken the. Catholic dogma, and it was not nice to. Jesus had brothers although even the official gospels say so. Mary Magdalene was always with him although even the official gospels. Jesus miracles. Most of the gospels may have been considered redundant they didnt add anything. Jesus. story that the Church would rather downplay. The gnostic Christians were persecuted after Rome converted to Christianity. The church also outlawed all other. Jesus but the four official ones. Initially, there was strong disagreement among Christians about what. Christianity was all about. The Christian dogma was formalized by a series of councils, whose conclusions. The council of Nicaea 3. The council of Ephesus 4. Jesus was superior to his human nature. The council of Calcedonia 4. Leone Is theory that Jesus. Greek philosophy, not on. Other than the gospels, we know of early Christianity mainly through the. Jewish historian Josephus 3. AD, but he himself became a Roman citizen. Two centuries later, Eusebius and Irenaeus. Christian religion. Both of them basically. Christianity as we know it. Irenaeus makes the oldest known claim. Eusebius who was working for Constantine and even wrote his biography. Roman church from Peter on Eusebius wrote that. God on earth. The early Christians. Rome was obviously not the place where Christianity had been born and was not. Christianity first spread in Palestine and. Syria, then east to Armenia the first country to convert and to Greece. When the apostles spread. Peter went to Rome, but others went elsewhere. Notably, Taddeus went to Armenia. Later, Paul went to Greece. The first community to call themselves Christians. Syria. The man whom most including Paul considered the head of. Christianity was James the Just, who remained in Palestine. These were all. equal centers of Christianity. It was only after the Roman conversion that. Roman branch of Christianity became the official one, and the lineage. Peter the popes was recognized as the only lineage worth knowing. It was then that only four gospels probably written in Greece between 6. It was then that competing branches. Christianity were persecuted and annihilated. What accounts for the rapid spread of Christianity around the Roman empire It is not clear how many Christians there really were before Constantine. Roman empire to convert to Christianity, but it is. Rome and. in various provinces of the middle East. In the year 7. 0, following a Jewish. Roman legions destroyed Jerusalem and expelled the Jews. That. act may be responsible for the spread of Christianity Jews of the Christian. Rome and probably as refugees. While it is a mystery how they could make so many proselytes so quickly, it is. Roman empire. The number of proselytes if it was indeed as high as the Church wants us. Christians in Palestine itself, which, of course, would be possible.