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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 8099087, member: 87200&quot;]Three comments:</p><p><br /></p><p>I think that if Jesus existed his detractors amongst the Pharisees could easily rile up the Romans by claiming that Jesus thought he was the messiah and they could rid themselves of the problem caused by this growing sect.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, with the regard to the messianic times in general, the Essenes believed that the messiah was at hand who would be both a temporal leader and a spiritual one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Remember also that the Bible as it is was not codified until the 4th century, and the councils of Nicaea and Chalcedon decided which books would be kept and which would be tossed as out as heretical. One could argue that Gnosticism with its alternative books, some of which featured Christ as a teacher but neglected to mention the Crucifixion, was a whole different and competing tradition.</p><p><br /></p><p>Apparently the person or persons possessing the Naq Hammadi Codex felt the books had to be hidden to avoid sanction by religious authorities such as Athanasius of Alexandria.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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