**But you are missing the main point of this argument. **
So what is the main point of your argument?
No I am not. You are failing to understand or try to understand what youhave admitted you are unfamiliar with - the rise of Christianity well outside the Roman empire well within the first two centuries.
Christianity spread far and wide outside of Rome’s reach within the first three centuries. It reached India (again well outside of Rome’s reach) by the first century. It reached Ethiopia - outside of Rome’s reach in Apostolic times.
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The book banning took place in the middle ages, not in the time of the Roman Empire. The expansion of Christianity began in the Roman Empire which had marvelous roads and means of communications.
By the middle ages your argument that the Roman Church banned biblical books becomes even weaker. Far weaker. The loss of the infrastructure and cohesion of the Roman empire, Schisms in the East startring with the Assyrians in the Persian Empire, the Orientals - Egyptians, Armenians, Georgians, Ethiopians, and then the Greeks would have made it utterly impossible for Middle Ages Rome to ban books of scripture world wide.
Please, I beg, beseach and implore you to learn about the history of Christianity in the East - it will disabuse you of a lot of these odd ahistorical ideas you have of a Roman conspiracy. It really will. Pick up one of your college text books you told me fills your house.
At the time Constantine made his famous edict that Christians should not be persecuted but allowed to worship freely, there were only about 10% of the Romans that were Christians. In the next couple of centuries, Christianity spread rapidly and reached all the way to England and almost the entire world.
And at the time of Constantine’s famous edict, there were thousands and thousands of Christians WELL BEYOND the Roman Empire on which his Edict had no effect - Armenia comes to mind. What is the point of that? Again, learn about the spread of Christianity Eastward - it really helps Protestants get over some of these odd ideas.
And Christianity was already in England as a minority party by the edict of Constantine.
It was in the middle ages that the papacy was in France, not Rome and there were three popes then, all claiming primacy.
What does this have to do with the conspiracy theory you have on how the Roman Church destroyed early Scriptures?
Where do you think the Council of Toulouse and the Council of Tarragona took place? One was in France and the other in Spain. All part of the Roman Empire at one time, but not in the middle ages.
) - there are only eleven copies that survived to this day. AND fined the printers the equivalent of an average person’s lifetime’s wages for the mistake as well.
