Censoring, mutilating and falsifying was the common “sport” of the early fathers as thousands of manuscripts and books undeniable prove. That occurred not only with the Old Testament, but also it was especially intensified the case with the New Testament, where early “Church Fathers” modified in centuries of copying, many of their records that were intentionally rewritten or suppressed.
As many ancient Greek manuscripts (and not only) have undeniably proven by scientists using ultra-violet methods, Christian monks rewrote upon ancient Greek philosophical and other parchments, scrolls or books their texts and prayers. See the palimpsest, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palimpsest
Adopting the decrees of the Council of Trent (1545-63), the Church assigned to “cleansing committees” to subsequently extend the process of erasure and ordered the preparation of a special list of specific information to be expunged from early Christian writings (Delineation of Roman Catholicism, Rev. Charles Elliott, DD, G. Lane & P. P. Sandford, New York, 1842, p. 89; also, The Vatican Censors, Professor Peter Elmsley, Oxford, p. 327).
In 1562, the Vatican established a special censoring office called Index Expurgatorius. Its purpose was to prohibit publication of “erroneous passages of the early Church Fathers” that carried statements opposing modern-day doctrine.
When Vatican copyists came across, “genuine copies of the Fathers, they corrected them according to the Expurgatory Index”. (Index Expurgatorius Vaticanus, R. Gibbings, ed., Dublin, 1837; The Literary Policy of the Church of Rome, Joseph Mendham, J. Duncan, London, 1830, 2nd ed., 1840; The Vatican Censors, op. cit., p. 328).
These Church’s methods, provide researchers with, “grave doubts about the value of all patristic writings released to the public”. (The Propaganda Press of Rome, Sir James W. L. Claxton, Whitehaven Books, London, 1942, p. 182).
Besides, not only the very Encyclopedia Biblica reveals that around 1,200 years of Christian history are unknown (see intentionally veiled), as stated… “Unfortunately, only few of the records [of the Church] prior to the year 1198 have been released”, but also, it reveals the “spuriousness of the scriptures” (Encyclopedia Biblica, vol ii, p.1880, vol iii, pp.1767,1781 & Catholic Encyclopedia, vol iii “The evidence of its spuriousness” & Catholic Encyclopedia, Farley ed. Vol iii pp.274-9, Canons), & https://archive.org/details/Encyclopaedia_Biblica_Vol_I_to_IV
Do you think that it was not by chance that in that same year (1198), Pope Innocent III (1198-1216) suppressed all records of earlier Church history by establishing the Secret Archives, alarmed by the discoveries of ancient books revealing disturbing truths? (Catholic Encyclopedia, Farley ed., vol. xv, p. 287).
Some seven-and-a-half centuries later, and after spending some years in those Archives, Professor Edmond S. Bordeaux wrote “How The Great Pan Died”. In a chapter titled “The Whole of Church History is Nothing but a Retroactive Fabrication“, he said:
“The Church ante-dated all her late works, some newly made, some revised and some counterfeited, which contained the final expression of her history … her technique was to make it appear that much later works written by Church writers were composed a long time earlier, so that they might become evidence of the first, second or third centuries.” (How The Great Pan Died, op. cit., p. 46)
Supporting Professor Bordeaux’s findings in 1587, Pope Sixtus V (1585-90) established an official Vatican publishing division and said in his own words,
“Church history will be now be established … we shall seek to print our own account“.(Encyclopédie, Diderot, 1759).
Vatican records also reveal that Sixtus V spent 18 months of his life as pope personally writing a new Bible and then introduced into Catholicism a “New Learning” (Catholic Encyclopedia, Farley ed., vol. v, p. 442, vol. xv, p. 376). The evidence that the Church wrote its own history is found in Diderot’s Encyclopédie, and it reveals the reason why Pope Clement XIII (1758-69) ordered all volumes to be destroyed immediately after publication in 1759.
Do not also miss to read “Are Our Gospels Genuine or Not?“, Dr Constantin von Tischendorf, lecture, 1869, available in the British Library). I remind you of, that when English-language versions of the Sinai Bible were published, showing 14.800 differences and disputing Christianity’s claim of historicity, the Christians were provided with irrefutable evidence of willful falsifications in all modern New Testaments.
With all these irrefutable proofs, don’t you think, you the Christians, that it is time to accept the spuriousness and the myth-making of your scriptures?
R&I ~ MJM
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