To this:

There is plenty of evidence from the council ofNicea etc there were 18 gospels available, the RCC selected the 4 that most supported Pauline crap

Roger responded:

You might like to know that this story is completely untrue. The current source for it seems to be the “Da Vinci Code”, which of course is fiction. The Council of Nicaea did not discuss the canon at all.

http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/nicaea.html

Furthermore the idea that the ante-Nicene church used 18 gospels can be refuted by anyone who troubles to look through the ante-nicene fathers, which are online:

http://www.ccel.org/fathers

You say that “there is plenty of evidence”, but I wonder whether you know of any, other than web pages online which (you will quickly find) offer no ancient evidence for their assertions.

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