Shadow Wolf said:
Christianity has indeed changed. In the beginning, it was law that sermons were conducted in Latin, and you had to give the church your entire life savings just to look at, or even own if you was very rich, an alleged artefact to be saved.
Originally, there was no such cult as Christianity. The first followers of Jesus of Nazareth or Yeshua ben Pacheria did not deify Jesus. They regarded him as a great prophet, teacher, or possibly a political messiah. They were called Nazerites, Ebionites, and a variety of other names because they clearly regarded Jesus /Yeshua as fully human and not a deity. The gospels clearly distinguish between Jesus and God.
According to the gospels, Jesus believed he was "sent" by God. He believed he was doing "God's" work. He believed his message was that of God not his (Jesus') message. Jesus believed that he was not GOOD, only God was GOOD. Paul talked about God AND (beside HIM) the Lord Jesus. A Lord was not necessarily a God. Lords were officials subordinate to Kings.
If we throw out the fake gospel, Revelation, the real Bible shows that Jesus was human, and God was God (and never the twain may meet). They were separate individuals. Christians did not occur until the Pagan Romans who followed Jesus, performed apotheosis (deification) of Jesus into a god. Initially the newly deified god was endorsed by Paul and taught in more detail by Bishop Arius. This gave the name of the first Christians as Arians. There was a hierarchy of God, Jesus the lesser god, and the Holy Spirit a messenger god (derived from the Zoroastrian Spenta Maingu, the Farsi name of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is not a Jewish belief.
All of this had nothing to do with the real Jesus who would have condemned it as blasphemy and idolatry. Arianism was the vast majority of Christians in the 2nd and 3rd Centuries. In the late 3rd and early 4th century a new heresy developed by Tertullian (who invented the Trinity) and Athanasius who formulated the complex but irrational concept of the Holy Trinity. It was clearly a false religion if viewed from the mind of Jesus.
While most Roman Christians were still Arian Christians, the mother (St. Helena) of Flavius Valerius Constantinus (Emperor Constantine) called a synod at Nicaea for all bishops. His troops surrounded and entered the building. They made it clear that Constantine wanted the majority Arian Christianity declared Heretical while legalising Trinitarian Christianity, the newest and most distant from Jesus of Nazareth, the official Roman approved Christianity.
Following this, Roman imperial troops began a massive persecution of Arian Christians, the true Jesus followers, the Mandaeans, Maronites, and others. TThey were nearly exterminated. The Arian Christians only survived for a few centuries in the Teutonic nations north of the Roman Empire (Franks, Alemanni, Saxons, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Asding Vandals, Siling Vandals (Suevi), Marcomani, Gepids, Lombards, Burgundians, and some of the Slavs of the western Balkans.
After elimination of rival and more legitimate Christian groups, Emperor Theodosius I turned the power of government on extermination of Pagans who tried to be quite and survive. Theodosius I had his crony Bishop St. Cyril send fanatical homicidal monks to ravage the Great Library of Alexandria. Why? The Great Library contained Greek science describing a global shaped Earth, a very old Earth, a heliocentric solar system, matter being composed of tiny invisible particles called ATOMS. All of those truths were condemned as Heresy because Trinitarians accepted a flat Earth at the centre of the universe only 4000 years old, and stars being merely little lanterns in a crystal sphere a few hundred metres above the Earth. Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake by Trinitarians because he proposed stars were distant suns with thousands of other worlds.
We must accept the fact that Orthodox Catholic Protestant Trinitarian Christianity is false and dogmatically irrational. I fail to understand how seemingly non-comatose people can believe in it.
[Christian quote] Then there was the English translation, which there is not a single book that has been translated that is 100% accurate. Then after the translators and dogmatists began deciding what books to include in the Bible, and which ones to omit the official Bible was published.[/quote].
English is a mongrel language that did not exist until the 15th Century. It is a mix of Saxon, Danish, Cymric (real Briton), Norman French, and some Norse influences. It was idiotic to use such a base language to translate a bible. It should have been preserved in Latin, Greek, and Old Slavonic. However, even those translations were selected from many tens of gospels rejected by the Trinity Church. Yet they screwed it up. The Trinitarians published the four gospels that clearly show that Jesus was not god and never thought he was God. "Father remove this cup from my hand. God why hast though forsaken me." Jesus was a human being, a very great and wise human being, whose teachings were discarded by the Catholic Church (Protestant and Orthodox) while all emphasis was directed at the apotheosis of human Jesus into a NEW GOD.
[Christian quote]Today even, all you have to do is go to a Bible store and see just how many versions of the Bible there are to realize that Christianity does indeed change.[/quote]
In addition, all of it is a chaotic Pagan Cult using Jesus as a New God in an Egyptian like Trinity. Christianity is PAGAN.
[Christian quote] Another difference, the Catholic Bible has the Sola Scriptura, but lacks Deuteronomy, which is a book that the church I last went to frequently turned to.[/quote]
Those are trivial and meaningless changes. The most corrupting change in the Catholic Bible was the deliberate deification (apotheosis) of the Human Jesus so that the teachings and wisdom of Jesus could be ignored and forgotten. Jesus' teachings threatened the power of the political authorities in ancient Rome. Rome had to stop him. It did so not by the crucifixion but by deifying him so it could make his words meaningless.
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