Where Nothing seems to be

Author(s): Hermann Kuhn
Publisher: Hermann Kunh

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Twelve passages at the end of the original text repeat what was said before. Since my main aim is to convey the text's original fascination, I left them out not to bore the reader. These passages are readily available in the internet to research, if you are interested.
Tales Around Campfires A few simple facts shed light on how all these superb insights into an exquisite new dimension humankind is capable of experiencing got so heavily distorted in the course of the initial, early centuries.
Few people are aware that the first and second century AD is highly undocumented. Only small fragments and single leaves have been found that relate to the events in Judea 2000 years ago. The first consistent 39 sheets - 'Papyrus 66', containing much of the gospel of John - were written around 200 AD only. -
- That's 200 years of telling tales around campfires, - with little documentation, no printed materials and without the instant broadband internet information we take for granted now.
Just relate these time-spans to our times: - How reliable would you deem stories of events that happened 200 years ago (at around 1810 AD) - related to you by word of mouth only, lacking all further documentation.
Also quite unknown is that the very first version of The Bible as we know it today (Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus), was only compiled in the first half of the 4th century - almost 300 years after the last eyewitnesses died.