[snowman1]

We should also remember that the church threw out a large number of gospels and one man decided which ones.

[frogjerk]

We should also remember that the church threw out a large number of gospels and one man decided which ones.

An absolute fallacy...

[HEY4QDEMS]

We should also remember that the church threw out a large number of gospels and one man decided which ones.

Well you are kinda-sorta right, the New Testament is an edited compilation but it was not based on what was thrown out but rather what it would include.

Up until around 400 AD the Christian/Catholic message was a collage of writings, letters and books of various followers and messengers of Christ, there was no New Testament.

Around the turn of the 5th century, a collection of those writings etc. were assembled to create what we know as the New Testament.

What was included and excluded was decided by a council, not by one man.

Contrary to cynical belief, the decisions regarding what gospels to keep was based less on the message and more on veracity, a prime example are the books of Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John, the tales of each of those books corroborate each other in many areas, thus they were accepted as gospel.

Revelations was originally excluded by the council and was added to the NT years later.

Conspiracy theorists like to contend that the excluded or "gnostic" gospels were omitted because they contain information unfavorable to Christianity but there has never been any evidence to support such claims.

[Sans-Culotte]

We should also remember that the church threw out a large number of gospels and one man decided which ones.

That post is yet more evidence that Dan Brown's readers accept The Da Vinci Code as "gospel truth".