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Chapter 1 -The impenetrable barrier of credibility  
     
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 The essence of any faith is trust that the sacred scripture and leaders of a particular religion are true.  
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 This is the same for any discussion on the true founders of Christianity, the origins, motives and actions as it is for any religion.  
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 A person who claims to be a “Christian” is someone who at the very least has faith that the scriptures known as the Holy Bible is true.  
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 Furthermore, a Christian is someone who fundamentally believes that the founder of the religion was Jesus of Nazareth, also known as Jesus Christ, or Jesus the Messiah.
 
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 Individual sects of Christianity may differ on their interpretation of the essential texts of the Bible; even on some of the core articles of their particular faith such as the question like “did Mary really conceive Jesus as a Virgin? But all Christians at least believe that Jesus founded Christianity.
 
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 This absolute belief in the connection between Jesus of Nazareth and Christianity is sometimes called the "impenetrable barrier of credibility".
 
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 It is an underlying belief that can never be challenged as anything other than fact; a belief that then serves to strengthen other fundamental beliefs.
 
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 For example, the fundamental belief that Jesus founded Christianity is the foundation upon which the additional belief of “apostolic succession” is based– that from the time of Jesus unto the present day, there exists an unbroken chain of authority to the present leadership of major branches of Christianity such as the Roman Catholic Pope.
  
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 Another example of how the fundamental belief that Jesus founded Christianity is used is the way in which the history of the Christian Churches, in particular the Roman Catholic Church is explained and defended.
 
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 It doesn't matter how many historical facts, photographs, or cases of hard physical evidence are presented to show a history of evil acts, of bloodshed and negativity. The belief that Jesus founded Christianity negates any and all attempts to discuss the objectively the true origins and historical record of Christian sects.
 
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 The impenetrable barrier of credibility continues to serve as a timeless barrier to protect individual clergy against attack especially any claims of immoral or even unholy behaviour.  
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 Simply, it is beyond belief that an organization founded by a man believed by many to be the son of God would then be responsible for the kinds of evil acts that so many people accuse it of being.  
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 In other words, every time an archeologist, philosopher or any person seeks to reveal facts that run contrary to the image presented by the Christian Churches, they have to contend with the impenetrable barrier of credibility.  
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 The more fantastic the claims, the less likelihood that any person will believe them, let along transmit them.  
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 It is why it has taken not just decades but hundreds of years to reveal certain historical facts concerning many Christian denominational institutions. Examples of institutional torture, examples of institutional heresy and examples of pedophilia and abuse of children.  
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 It is why even today, many Catholics believe the stories about evil pedophile priests remain a protestant slur and untrue.  
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 It is why even as you read, there remain individuals dedicated to re-writing any negative history of the Christian churches and why good people are willing to accept such open forgery of the past.  
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 It is because most of us don’t want to believe such an unbroken history of vile evil acts, political manipulation and suppression originates from the same organization supposedly founded by Jesus Christ.
  
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 There are even those who consider such question, such searching for the truth of these anomalies is itself a slur on Jesus and the principles of Christianity. That to somehow ask these questions is "unchristian".
 
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 Yet if Christianity truly is a force for good; if Christianity really was created by Jesus Christ, then these questions, these anomalies deserve to be answered.  
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 For those who are prepared to read on, who are willing to consider history with impartial judgment, who respect knowledge may yet find the answers concerning the foundation of Christianity in these following pages.
  
     

 
 
 

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