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)