A Starting Story on Early Followers of "The Way."

Something that is hard to get "Christians" to understand is the facts are that for 363 years, the Followers of the Way of Peace and Love, had no canonized Scripture, though there had been various attempts and different ideas of the many letters, etc, that were being passed around among those who had heard of Jesus and or had the experience of knowing the Spirit of Christ within them for themselves. The other thing that is especially difficult to get modern day Christians to understand is how the church became an empire in complete contradiction of what the earlier followers of Christ, practiced as part of their own lives. For 250 years the early "Christians" were horribly persecuted by the Roman "Authorities, not so much for "religious reasons" as for POLITICAL ONES... The Romans tended to be tolerant of religions and incorporated local gods of conquered areas into the Roman pantheon. BUT Christianity was different. Christians DID NOT give their primary or any allegiance to the Roman Emperor, nor it's rulers and laws. and so Rome viewed Christianity as a threat to it's society, a society that was disintegrating anyway. A Christian refused to bow before STATISM. Like Jesus they lived, and were guided only by the Spirit of Life within them, and sought no rulers to rule over them. They had but one ruler in their lives, and that was the Spirit of Divine Love, the Christ within them. Yes, they were ANARCHIST, in the truest sense of the word. Spiritual Anarchist. Before Constantine's church, you would have not found a follower of the way, choosing to be a soldier, a police officer or any government official at all. They absolutely refused to call Caesar god or god like. How far Christianity drifted from there, is not hard to see or realize. Christians today are very ignorant of both, the history of the early followers before Constantine and the entire history of how, when and where their present Bible came to be. Most Christians don't even realize there is not one signature (original) scripture that exist today, anywhere in the world. There are more copies and fragments of many manuscripts more then any writing known in existence, but there are lot more then just the letters, books, and writings found only in the Canonized Scriptures determined by Constantine's Empire Church. That some alleged 'authorities" chose and rejected the others. Yet, even when chosen, these writings belonged exclusively only to the Empire Church, ie; "THE AUTHORITY", and to be interpreted by the "authorities" of the church ONLY for a very long time, until people like Jerome, Tynsdale and others, wanted to take them out of the languages of Konia Greek, Hebrew, and Aramic (dead languages) and put them into language that not just the authorities or alleged scholarly authorities could read but that more people could read for themselves.. So before Constantine, how did people know anything about this Jesus or the Way.. it was truly oral story passed from one to another and by the witness of their Own Spirit within, as to what the many stories meant for them.. but one thing they all agreed on that brought their persecution and deaths by the thousands if not millions was, they were "anarchist" for sure. They knew of only one Archy, the Spiritual Self, the Christ within, the Holy Spirit, God as their lives.. One Spirit.. one Life.. Any person that has come to that conclusion would never choose to give up his own sovereignty as a human being to be powered over by another human being, to be ruled over, but he would and could choose to use his will, his sovereignty for the benefit of another to lift them up to where they are, equals and that could mean and often did their very own physical death by murder by the State... especially to stand in the way of injustices done to another. To stand in the way of hate being poured out on others, to stand in the way of violence for the sake of peace.. Yes, one awakened cannot become anything less then a Spiritual Anarchist.. and yes it is political.. political in that it is the total anti-thesis of all the politics of this world.. Divine Love is, you know.. different.. very different then the conditional love, violence, retributive ways and judgments of this world.. - j.w. black 2016