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123. "Just because some Vatican people excluded it from the Bible...." Roman Emperor

Constantine stopped the persecution of Christians around 325 A.D. He also made
Christianity the official religion of Rome. Constantine had far more say, even in
religious matters, than the pope did. This continued on for several centuries, until
the popes gradually learned how to acquire more earthly power than the emperor.

These emperors had a lot to say about what was to be excluded from the Bible. You
can be sure they excluded and changed the text of most topics that were not favorable
to their maintaining power.

An example: After Jesus had cured a man who was born blind, the apostles asked him
Who had sinned, this man or his father, that he should have been born blind? Jesus
replied that neither had sinned....

Just go a little further into this question: If the man had been born blind, when did
he have the time to sin? Could he have sinned when he was in his mother's womb?
Obviously not. The only sensible explanation is that the apostles believed in
reincarnation, and they thought that he might have sinned in a previous lifetime, and
that his blindness was some sort of a retribution he had to make. Jesus did not correct
their question.

Apparently all direct references to reincarnation had been taken out of the Bible - only
the indirect ones that the censors did not catch were accidentally left in. Reincarnation would have meant that the emperors accepted the idea that their souls were not better than the souls of any average person. They, too, had to come back to earth again and again to have their experiences and learn their lessons. This, of course, had to be
eliminated. The emperors certainly thought of themselves as superior and wanted
their subjects to think so, too.

Then just imagine all the mistakes made when the Bible was translated into modern
languages.

To think how so many people insist on taking the Bible literally, word for word, is
beyond me.