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)