Scoffers and unbelievers - please try to explain this

[lestatdark]

sapphi_snake said:

lestatdark said:

sapphi_snake said:

lestatdark said:

Actually, historically speaking, it was not the bible who was written by "people influenced by the holy spirit", instead that's reserved to the scriptures and passages inside. The bible is actually just a very pinpoint compilation of those scriptures and manuscripts compiled over centuries, both the old testament (written in tandem with jewish beliefs and scriptures, and the new testament, which is unique to Christian ideology).

The bible itself, as I  said, was compiled in the 3rd century, during the ascension of the Byzantine Roman empire, with Christianity as the emerging religion. Emperor Constantine with the conjunction of Christian priests and clergy were the original compilers of the bible. 

I may not be Christian myself (I'm a wiccan), but I have two heavy-Christian believers in my family (my grandparents from my dad's side of the family), so I was taught a lot of the history of the bible when I was young. 

So the contradiction is still true. The bible itself was written and compiled by men who chose to carefully put only those scriptures that "fitted" the Christian ideology of the early Christian era, leaving aside a lot of controversial scriptures that were later found in the Dead Sea.
Amongst these controversial scriptures, there are some that contradict the depiction of Jesus Christ and it's relationship with Maria Magdalene, especially the scriptures written by Magdalene herself.

Yes, the scriptures that compose the bible may have some "higher power" influencing or inspiring the people that wrote them, but in the end, man and it's preconceptions, prejudices and hidden agendas left their influence in the final product itself.

FTR the Roman Empire was still unified during Constantine's reign.

That's right, but it was during constantine's reign that the shift to the Byzantine era began, especially circa 324 when he moved the empire's capital from Nicomedia to Byzantium. Also, it's only due to conventions that Byzantine and Roman empire are said separately, because they were basically the same during that era.

True, though the Byzantine Empire is tha name attributed to the Eastern Roman Empire during the Middle Ages.

Correct, though the Byzantine Empire had many shifts in it's territory during the thousand years that composed it, especially in two major centuries (6th and 11th century) when it had almost the same territory as the original Roman Empire. 

This conversation is probably going way off-topic now, but I think it's always good to shed some historical significance to events, such as the creation of the Christian Bible, which in the end, is just another book.