The point is that the church said many things were heretical and tried to suppress those beliefs. And we know about it, because we have records of: 1) the chur

The point is that the church said many things were heretical and tried to suppress those beliefs. And we know about it, because we have records of: 1) the church saying "that guy over there is a heretic" 2) the writings of the heretic So what you're saying is that in this one case, the Church was able to completely stamp out a widespread belief to the point that we have no reference to people believing it, even though it wasn't able to do so in other cases that it also deemed heretical? That seems implausible. P.S. "> Never before had an ancient manuscript alluded to Jesus’s being married." That is what I referred to as "the claim".