Ten discoveries that rewrote history, page 1

Originally posted by Illahee
Dead Sea scrolls were key, but the Nag Hamadi showed the corruption of the Vatican from its earliest times.

The twelve papyrus codices that were recovered from Nag Hammadi are Gnostic works and show no evidence of any corruption in the Vatican. Contrary to a belief made popular in the book “the Da Vinci Code”, neither the council of Nicaea nor the Catholic Church wrote or modified the bible. The Books of the bible were already being chosen well before either of these existed. There are lists of canonical documents dating back to at least 170AD, 155 years before the council of Nicaea, 211 years before the Bishop of Rome first accepted the title of Pontiff, and 884 years before the Great Schism even caused the creation of the Roman Catholic Church. Men such as Irenaeus, who was second generation taught from the Apostle John, were already bench-slapping gnosticism as non-Christian heretical teachings by as early as 180AD, with his five volume: "On the Detection and Overthrow of the So-Called Gnosis", also known as ”Against Heresies”.

I really wish that folks who want to use Gnosticism to try to pick on Christianity would at least learn the history of Gnosticism and the Church first. Really…

Some other early Church Fathers who knew the original Apostles:

Saint Ignatius of Antioch
(also known as Theophorus) (ca. 35-110) was the third Bishop or Patriarch of Antioch and a student of the Apostle John. En route to his martyrdom in Rome, Ignatius wrote a series of letters which have been preserved as an example of the theology of the earliest Christians.

Polycarp
Polycarp's famous pupil was Irenaeus, for whom the memory of Polycarp was a link to the apostolic past. Irenaeus relates how and when he became a Christian, and in his letter to Florinus stated that he saw and heard him personally in lower Asia; in particular he heard the account of Polycarp's discussion with John the Evangelist and with others who had seen Jesus. Irenaeus also reports that Polycarp was converted to Christianity by apostles, was consecrated a bishop and communicated with many who had seen Jesus.

Clement of Rome

Tradition identifies him as the Clement that Paul mentioned in Philippians 4:3 as a fellow laborer in Christ

The Liber Pontificalis, which documents the reigns of popes states that Clement had known Saint Peter. It also states that he wrote two letters (though the second letter, 2 Clement is no longer ascribed to him) and that he died in Greece in the third year of Trajan's reign, or 100 AD.

[edit on 4/10/2008 by defcon5]