ÒBecause Constantine
upgraded JesusÕ status almost four
centuries after JesusÕ death, thousands of documents already existed chronicling His life as a mortal
man. To rewrite the history books,
Constantine knew he would need a bold stroke É [He] commissioned and financed a new Bible, which omitted those gospels which spoke of ChristÕs human traits and embellished those gospels which made Him godlike.
The earlier gospels were outlawed, gathered up, and burned.Ó (234)