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The narrative centers on the idea that victors control not only history books but also memory, describing Dominatio Memoriae as the Roman practice of erasing people, buildings, and even entire histories, with the first Christian Bible of January and its key figures suffering this fate.
The timeline runs from January to March, with the Council of Nicaea marking the end of the Pre Nicene Christian era. Two main camps emerge. The first camp, the Judeo Christians (also called Messianic Jews or Ebionites), later evolving into the various forms of what becomes the Roman Catholic Church and its many denominations (Baptists, evangelicals, Anglicans, Orthodox, Protestants, Mormons, etc.), all share a single denominator: belief in Yahweh as God and that Jesus Christ was born of Jews. Their Bible is Judeo-Christian, with the Jewish Torah stapled to the front, referred to as the old testament after a third‑century renaming. Rivalry within this camp is intense, with disputes over whether to be Jews or “kinda Jewish,” illustrated by the Council of Jerusalem in 48 AD.
The second camp, the Cairo Christians, is less known due to the Demnatio Memoriae. The Cairo Christians use the symbol chi-rho (the first two Greek letters of Christ) as identification, a predecessor to the Latin cross after Nicea. Both camps acknowledge Jesus as the Son of God and place extreme importance on the Apostle Paul, but beyond that, their beliefs diverge widely. The Cairo Christians have a Bible in which Jesus’s arrival and life are clearly dated in the first sentence of the first Christian Bible of January: “In the fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, Jesus descended into Capernaum, a city in Galilee.” Some groups like the Marcionites even pinpoint November 24 at around 11 AM as the exact moment, noting a solar eclipse in that time frame visible over Capernaum. The first Bible consists of the gospel of the Lord, plus Paul’s original ten epistles; this version is contrasted with the later Judeo-Christian canon assembled centuries later with four Gospels, Acts, 62 other books, and Torah front matter.
Marcionites are described as the largest Cairo Christian denomination, persecuted by Romans, Jews, and Judeo Christians. Fragments of their influence persist, including the oldest inscription bearing Jesus’s name on a Marcionite church arch in Syria. The Vatican Library allegedly hosts manuscripts showing Saint Jerome’s source material for his Latin translations attributed to Marcion of Sino. Marcion is depicted as a target of Demnatio Memoriae, with defaced paintings of him and his head scratched off. A standalone page for Pre-Nicene History is mentioned at prenicene.org, with cross-links to firstbiblenetwork.com, and the Marcionite Church (marcionitechurch.org) is cited as existing today.
The turning point arrives with Eusebius and Constantine. Eusebius, known as the father of church history, is portrayed as a PR operator who would omit inconvenient facts and even advocate deceit for the “greater good,” excommunicated for Arian beliefs but later rehabilitated by Constantine, who becomes Pontifex Maximus and uses Eusebius to advance a Judeo Christian narrative. The Council of Nicaea (May 20–June 19, in March of the same year) supposedly unites the empire under Judeo Christianity, with Constantine ordering confiscation and destruction of Cairo Christian property, torching Bibles, and transferring wealth to the new church. Demnatio Memoriae targets Marcion and his first Bible, and within six years Constantine issues 50 copies of Eusebius’s revised Judeo‑Christian Bible, which staples the Torah and alters Paul’s epistles, becoming the official Bible of the Roman Catholic Church, signaling a wholesale hijacking of doctrine in a span of twenty-nine days. The narrative closes with “And now you know.”