Chapter 55: The Erased Name (Part 3)
"It is wonderful that if it had not been for the woman who saw the resurrection of Jesus, Jesus might not have been blinded with a halo of divinity, and Christianity might have been just a branch of Judaism, which soon disappeared from history with other sects, instead of becoming independent from Judaism and becoming a world religion that later spread throughout the world......"
- "Those Moments That Influenced the World"
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After Joshua, who was crucified, was saved from the cross by the disciples, the grief-stricken disciples chose to bury Joshua, but not long after, an ecstatic woman came.
"God, I saw Joshua resurrected......"
In the woman's narration, when she and several others were remembering Joshua in front of the cemetery outside the city, Joshua suddenly appeared in front of her and asked her to tell her disciples that he would shelter them and spread the faith throughout the earth.
And the disciples, who were a little dazed by Joshua's death at this moment, were like grasping at a life-saving straw, and since these women insisted that Joshua was really resurrected, they could proclaim it as a miracle.
But they didn't notice that the women had gathered somewhere one day afterward.
In this way, Judah's command during his lifetime ...... And we'll be able to do it. ”
The women whispered as they secretly wiped away tears.
Little did anyone know that on the very days they entered Jerusalem, they were inspired by Judah to secretly follow Joshua's teachings. And just a few days ago, they had been given one and only order by Judas.
The thoughtful Judas had long anticipated what might happen after Joshua's death, which directly contributed to Joshua's aura of divinity.
In a world where supernatural powers are not permitted, the resurrection is not easy, but it is easier to convince just a few women.
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Many years later, Rome, inside the emperor's bedchamber.
"Ahh
Accompanied by the emperor's wake-up screams, the middle-aged Roman Emperor Constantine sat up on the bed in the purple silk dormitory, his body covered with a soft brocade quilt, one hand caressing his head, and letting out a slight moan.
Outside the dormitory, when noisy footsteps sounded, it was the emperor's attendants and guards.
"Your Majesty, what happened?"
There was no daring to trespass directly into it, only an eager voice sounded outside the door, and listening to that voice, the emperor just said casually.
"It's alright, Romunas, it's just a nightmare, you stand down. ”
The people outside the door retreated, but the faint light of the fire proved that they had not gone far, and were still waiting for the emperor's call at any time.
Not caring about any of this, Constantine just stroked his head and frowned.
In his dream, he seemed to see someone smiling at him above the clouds, but he couldn't see it really, only vaguely seeing something as white as the wings of a bird behind him.
"What is this?"
Constantine was not very interested in religion, but his mother and wife were devout Christians, so he vaguely felt that it had something to do with their religion, and he called his academic advisor, who listened carefully to his dreams, and exclaimed in amazement.
"Your Majesty, this is what the Christians call angels. ”
Christian......
The Emperor pondered.
It was a religion that had reached the point of inadoptibility in the Roman Empire, and its adherents were innumerable, and the Roman Empire had been trying to suppress the growth of these Christians since the time of Nero two hundred and fifty years ago, and his previous emperors were fierce anti-Christians, but they were also helpless.
These believers are like they can't be killed, and no amount of killing can stop more people from believing in it, so much so that even the mother and wife of the Roman emperor are Christians, and the ban on Christianity has become almost a dead letter.
What does this mean?
The emperor was a little confused.
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A few years later, at a conference of unprecedented proportions, Christian scholars gathered so much that even the Roman emperor was at the bottom of the table.
The Council of Nicaea, the first time since the Edict of Milan that recognized Christianity as the state religion in the Roman Empire, relied on the authority of the emperor to convene almost all the prominent bishops in the empire, and let these bishops gather here to discuss the differences in Christianity.
Two hundred and ninety-five years have passed since the crucifixion of Joshua, or Jesus in Greek, and in the past three hundred years, the world has changed dramatically, and the teachings of the Christians who had spread throughout the empire have changed dramatically, even to the point of almost-for-tat, depending on the region in which they preach and the local customs.
It was for this reason that Constantine gathered more than 300 bishops and scholars in the empire to address the disparities caused by the spread of Christianity.
At the beginning of the conference, many theological issues were resolved in the joint deliberations of these bishops, and many differences were gradually corrected. But in the end, the simple problems are solved, and the problems left behind are naturally difficult, and when there is an unavoidable core problem, this contradiction completely erupts.
Jesus is the Son and God is the Father, and there is no way to generalize about the different identities. ”
Ariu couldn't help but roar angrily at the bishop in front of him.
God and the Messiah are one, and Jesus is the manifestation of God, the incarnation, and there is no difference. ”
And in front of him, the bishop named Athanassi stubbornly retorted.
Both bishops are well-known giants within Christianity, both are archbishops who run a church and tens of millions of believers, and the quarrel between the two at the moment is also a problem that has never been resolved within Christianity.
Jesus was a man and a god. ”
For non-Christians, this is naturally a very inexplicable question, but for believers in Christ, it is the most serious one, because it directly determines many fundamental questions.
The two sides led directly to the formation of two huge factions in the whole meeting, and the two opposing views became the focus of almost the entire meeting, and even the Roman emperor who sat on the sidelines could not reconcile the contradictions between the two sides.
The debate dragged on for a long time, and eventually, what Athanassi's supporters considered the "Trinity" prevailed.
Immediately, Emperor Constantine directly used his imperial authority to declare that the Trinity was the only orthodoxy, and all other remarks were heretical, and under the persecution of the blade and the scriptures, the unwilling Ariu could only reluctantly accept it.
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I don't know how long it will be.
"Mentor, mentor, I have a big discovery......"
In the monastery full of books, the excited young apprentice almost trotted all the way to the mentor, panting, and then raised the old parchment scroll in his hand.
The old monk was holding the cross in his hand, muttering prayers, looking at the young apprentice in front of him, he couldn't help but wonder.
"What's wrong?"
Looking at the young apprentice in front of him, the old monk said with a smile.
"Just now, in the depths of the dusty classics, I stumbled upon a parchment roll that was sandwiched between brick cracks, and then I looked at it, and the result was ...... There's a big discovery in there!"
Then, the young apprentice tried to calm his breathing, and then said mysteriously to the old monk in front of him.
"In this parchment...... There are many records of the Lord's life, and it mentions that the Lord actually had a name......"
"It's called Hanna. ”
The old monk's eyes froze for a moment, then slowly widened.
Then he took the parchment roll from his apprentice's hand, and when he got closer, he was greeted by a smell of stale that was so disgusting that it was almost impossible to imagine how it had been preserved. But the old monk didn't care, but eagerly opened it, almost with his nose on it, looking at the contents word by word.
Eventually, his mouth was wide open, and his hand holding the parchment roll trembled slightly, looking dejected.
Obviously, what was written in the parchment had a great impact on him.
Then, a bright light flashed in his eyes......
"Parker, did you tell anyone else? or did anyone else know about it?"
Brother Kao lowered his head and looked at the junior apprentice in front of him with a smile, and Parker replied simply.
"No, I don't. ”
The smile on the old monk's face grew happier and happier, and he stroked Parker's head and said in a loud voice.
"Good, good...... It's not too early, and it's time to get ready for dinner. ”
"Hmm!"
Parker nodded excitedly and turned away...... Behind him was an old monk with a hideous face holding a wooden club in his hand.
"Bang!"
On the ground, blood oozed from the tiny body, and it was hit wildly to the unnaturally distorted hands and feet, and the frozen eyes seemed to be unaware of what was happening. And looking down at the young corpse in front of him, the pious old monk who had never done anything evil in his life, and had not even deceived anyone, was now bloodshot with bloodshot eyes, holding a bloodstained wooden stick in his hand, gasping for breath.
Immediately, he stumbled and fell to the ground, but he didn't care and muttered.
"Jesus is God, not man...... How could Jesus be human...... How can it be human...... Yes, this must be the devil who has come to bewitch me, and it must not be a manuscript left by the Holy Apostles......"
The old monk lit the fire and threw the parchment into the fire, which had frightened him, and laughed happily as he looked at the manuscript that was gradually being burned.
"Hah...... Hahahahaha......ha
And at his neck, the bloodstained man on the cross flickered in the flickering light of the fire, as if he were weeping......