Ancient Christianity
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The
written history of the Ancient Christian religion
is almost completely destroyed.
There is almost no authentic written
history
of early ancient Christianity,
because official church archives
and even the existant holy scripture
have been rewritten
by many so-called editors during the
years 300-350 AD.
Specially books and scrolls about early
ancient Christianity
and the first centuries are destroyed by
the
NT-groups. The history of Christianity
in the centuries
before the New Testament has almost been
erased.
For example:
The church of Marcion was in
the first centuries (30-450 AD)
the biggest church in North
Africa and Syria
and the biggest Christian
denomination overall.
This church had many ancient
Egyptian features
as well as Gnostic features.
Very special was their thinking
about God the father as
mentioned in the Old Testament.
They did not recognize the god
Jahweh
as the god of the Christian
church.
It is known that the Marcion
church also
banished certain writingsand
had holy writings
different from other Christian
churches
of the apostles and the
Christian churches of the Gnostics.
The church of Marcion can be
seen as the first world-wide
organised Christian movement.
We know something
about the church of Marcion
because their annihilators
wrote about them to mock them
and abuse them.
The followers of John the
Baptist represent a group,
that certainly originates from
before the Jesus religion.
The religious groups around
John the Baptist were
even more fanatically erased
then the church of Marcion.
Some say that the church of
John the Baptist secretly still exists.
This is said to be
recognizable in the works of art
of well known sculptures and
painters.
If this is true, it would be
interesting to see,
whether these hidden John the
Baptist groups
still have archives available
with ancient texts.
It is known that the successor
of John the Baptist
is mentioned in the New
Testament as Simon the Magus.
Simon was accompanied by a
female priestess Helena.
The relation between Maria
Magdalene and Helena is unknown.
But the significance of the
presence of priestesses is sure.
Both women Maria Magdalene and
Helena are mocked
and called bad names in the
New Testament.
The second wave of banishing
writings
came in the second century
(130-200 AD),
even before the New Testament
was being written,
many scriptures were banished
because they did not fit in
with the goals
of the NT-groups of that time.
The so-called heresy-hunters
were appointed and have done
their destructive work well in
Egypt and Syria.
The third wave from 200 to 500
AD of banishing scriptures
came with the destruction of
all non NT-churches,
like the church of Marcion
(although Marcion apparently
honored the letters of Paul),
the church of John the Baptist,
the Gnostics, the religion of
Mani,
the believers of the Seth
manuscripts,
the destruction of the ancient
Egyptian religion
in the same time. Officially
the year 552 AD is
seen as the end of the ancient
Egyptian religion.
The burning of the library of
Alexandria in Egypt
by the Romans around 290 AD
was extremely tragical.
The back up of this big
library in the temple of Serapis
was destroyed by the Christian
church of the NT-groups in 391 BC.
This is also the period where
the Roman military forces
where used to destroy every
non-NT-group.
Is this the oldest Christian
church in use?
The Christian church became
the official church
of the Roman empire at about
362 AD.
This will certainly have had
further repercussion
on the Christian churches
outside the NT-groups.
The original Pagan religion of
the Romans
was reduced and property was
confiscated.
Without doubt many written
scriptures have been erased
or altered to fit in with the
opinions of
the NT-power groups.
Also the church of the
Nestorians was thrown out
of the mainstream.
It is fashionable to put all
guild of the destruction
of ancient scriptures on the
emperor Constantine after 362 AD.
This is a tempting thought but
not true at all.
The NT-church started the
burning of books
directly while coming into
existence.
One of the burnings is even
mentioned in the New Testament.
It is the burning of books in
Ephese.
The NT-writers claim, that
Paul was before
his conversion a terminator of
believers
but the reality is most
probable different.
Some letters of Paul in the NT
are authentic,
but many other letters of Paul
are most probable
altered or not written by Paul
at all.
The NT-groups tried to
incorporate
the well known memory of Paul
into
their believe system for
gaining authority.
Paul was in his time (30-80
AD) very probable
a modern and spiritual
Christian with a veneration
for the female
element in the Christian
religion.
Gnostic writings of Paul have
been found.
The Islamic invasion of Egypt
left
the Christian churches of the
Copts relatively in peace,
the fourth wave of destruction
of Christian scriptures
came centuries later with
the reign of caliph al Hakim
996-1021 AD.
The fifth wave of destruction
of scriptures and
church organizations came with
the Inquisition
of the Roman Catholic church during the Middle
Ages,
let us say from 600-1550 AD.
Every religious group that was
not of the same belief
as the Roman Catholic church
was tortured,
destroyed, killed, burned, erased.
Examples are:
the church of Arius in eastern
Europe,
the church of Manicheus,
the Cathars,
the Albigenses,
the Bogimil church,
the Hussite church (now the
Moravian church of the Hernhuters),
not to mention the destruction
of Celtic and
Germanic religions in Europe,
the cultures of the Inca and
the Aztecs
in the Caribbian and South
America.
The fall of Constantinople (now Istanbul)
into the hands of the Venetian army around 1420
has again given destruction
of writings of
the Eastern churches.
The same
happened by the crusaders,
who conquered
and plundered Jerusalem.
Those crusaders burned and plundered many holy places.
It seems that important scriptures were brought
to Western Europe secretly and survived hidden until
today.
The Roman Catholic crusade
against the Cathars
in the south of France around
1244 has destroyed
much evidence of the true
history of the Christian church.
It seems that the destruction
of the Cathars also was meant
to destroy remnants of the
order of Templars
and remnants of the John the
Baptist churches
and other Greek traditions in
the South of France.
Finally the Inquisition has
chased away
the illustrious Arabic
universities of Spain
and the Jewish population of
many parts of Europe
as well as the belongings of
many sects and heretics.
Certainly the Inquisition
played a role in the witch hunt
in Europe and North America from 1200 to 1650 AD.
A conclusion could be, that at the end of the middle
ages
around 1550 the
history of Christianity was
almost completely destroyed and rewritten
by the Western NT-churches.
The church history as it is taught nowadays
is strongly influenced by the mainstream thinking
of the
surviving NT-churches.
Even many Prostestant churches are seeing
the church
history
as the history of the NT-churches and
nothing is being taught about the other ways
of Christian spirituality.
Even well known scientific
books still are mentioning
the Christian churches as the
churches inside
the NT-power groups and do
mention everything
else with other names as the
Gnostic churches
or even as heretics, as if
those churches
were not Christian at all.
During the years 1600 to 1800
AD the order of the Jesuites
had the secret instruction to
destroy
the written tradition of
every non Roman Catholic
religious group
around the world and that is
what they did.
This secret instruction has
been published,
but is normally not integrated
in the publications of church
history.
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Updated August 27,
2007
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