Post by Zadkiel on Jan 12, 2016 23:18:09 GMT
For centuries, the so-called "Church Fathers" were very uncertain about which books should be included in the New Testament. Most of the 27 works that eventually ended up between the covers, however, have one time or another been declared as "inappropriate to Christian teaching". The choice eventually fell on the documents that most could accept, while manuscripts that mainly advocated a different view than the Roman one did not receive acceptance "in the good company". But the selected books were wrongly translated and subject to "a creative editing process", to weed out details that were inconsistent with the literalist, Pauline teaching.
