Christianity became the religion of Rome. Paganism lost favor in Rome. It's pretty much just that simple. Christianity and paganism were two entirely different theological models, allowing for very little assimilation.Christianity crowded out paganism, actually. Constantine did not preside over the Council of Nicaea; the convention was entirely Christian.jesus was just a man--not godAn interesting thing to notice is that even after Jesus repented for sins and the heavens opened up to him after the baptism of John he immediately went into the wilderness, lived among the wild beasts, and started eating and drinking and partying with sinners and prostitutes and accused the holiest people of the social order of being sinners, actors and lying frauds.
I guess Jesus had a different idea about the subject of sin.
he sinned also
You're asking what biblical scholars have for centuries, in that either Jesus was divine, or moved bt divinity.
One can trace the debate back to the Roman Ceasars during the councils of Nicaea , where the Romans assimilated the Christians.....quite effective i might add.... ........apparently their collesium shtick became a bore.....
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Iirc, the councils went on for longer than Constantine's reigh , but the jist was to interface with ,as well as hold to, roman gestalt
This began before methods of mass publication , and ended with their results
You do know that many 'books' hit the roman shredder ,right?
The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden - Wikipedia
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Indeed so, yet just as we see the polticians of modern times manipulate relgious doctrine to fit their narrative , so it was w/Romans
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