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Israel. That St. Thomas accompanied Jesus during his sojourn in. India was conveniently explained away by saying that it was nothing new, for Jesus always accompanied the preachers of the. Gospels on their journeys. In fact, all historical evidence bearing on the life of Jesus was used to suit and save the official doctrine of the Church with amazing impunity regardless of the ridiculous interpretations this effort occasioned. . That the seal of secrecy was set on truth by the holy Church and facts were sacrificed to sustain fictions will be borne out by the following quotation which I reproduce from M. I. Finlay's book ASPECTS OF ANTIQUITY. Referring to the great Biblical. Scholar Goguel, it says:Goguel is right to stress the implications in this connection of the fact that the earliest Christian documents form a canonical collection: What was remembered of the earliest days of Christianity passed through a kind of censorship so that there is only left for us what conformed to the doctrine of the Church when it had become fixed in one single form. . Much other material was in effect thrown in the waste paper basket and disappeared. (Aspects of Antiquity, by M. I. Finley,. London 1968) pp. 190-191. . This vandalism and suppression of truth extended to Egypt in the West and to India in the East. An excerpt from Early. Spread of Christianity by A. Mingana, Longmans Green & Company 1926, reproduced below will bear this out:. Before the Synod of Diamper of 1599, there were many. Syriac MSS in India, which contained an extensive biblical, liturgical, and patristic literature. The Synod, however, declared that all books which were opposed in any way whatsoever to the doctrine of the Church of Rome were to be burnt without pity. (p. 67). . Nag Hammadi texts too reveal a tragic situation. Writing on this, the famous weekly 'Time' says in its issue of 9. 6. 1975:. The Nag Hammadi texts were packed away 16 centuries ago, perhaps to protect them from book-burning Christian opponents. . It is indeed a miracle that in spite of this continued and organised destruction and distortion of history, there should still remain a fragment here and a fragment there, even long and authentic Scrolls and Documents, which more than prove that truth will come out and that Jesus did not die on the cross. 139