"Since the Church is less than 2000 years old"

Ah there lies a problem - since a certain cleric centuries ago, stuffed up his sums, AD 0 is actually a certain date BC, as I remember, and of course it depends on when YOUR "Church" began. As I have seen Yahoo Answers questions that ask "Are Catholics Christians?" I despair of the ignorant....


"one wonders exactly when the 'paper trail' began"

The answer to when the paper trail began was in the video I pointed to. As I remember, before 100 Ad....