heart and mind for the purpose of maintaining this enterprise but these religions had boundaries imposed on them that were not to be crossed. The biggest boundary of course, dictated that religions were free to be practiced up until the point they became seditious or INRI (sedition…..this is an evolution of an even earlier more ancient meaning…”in violation of God….RA or RI…the sun god, translated from ancient Egyptian (RI) …..Not of God!). Jesus of Nazareth was not executed by the Jews but by the Romans who had a very strict legal system and a specific mode of execution or punishment for each crime that could be committed. Crucifixion was the mode of punishment prescribed for sedition…
For instance, a promoter of civil war was subject to death but not by crucifixion, these political civil warriors would be executed by spear. However, a promoter of sedition by reason of divine right, which was not just a crime against Rome but an assault on the Roman emperor himself i.e. God, INRI, was punishable by crucifixion!
When we consider that the biblical account of Jesus of Nazareth was compiled more than 300 years after the event, at the council of Nicaea and subsequent councils following the death of Constantine….such as the council of Rome in 382AD conducted by the sons and daughter of Constantine, we must consider the validity of the writings compiled as authentic first account descriptions. However, after more than 300 years, this would have been an almost impossibility. The Dead Sea scrolls hidden in a cave in Qumran would most likely depict a clearer picture of the times than would have the scriptures that Constantine and company would have compiled, because these writings had been hidden from the Romans, and stayed