Teabing: 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)