[blam]

Earliest Reference Describes Christ As 'magician'

"A bowl, dating to between the late 2nd century B.C. and the early 1st century A.D., is engraved with what may be the world's first known reference to Christ. The engraving reads, "DIA CHRSTOU O GOISTAIS," which has been interpreted to mean either, "by Christ the magician" or, "the magician by Christ."

[pickrell]

"...A bowl, dating to between the late 2nd century B.C. and the early 1st century A.D., is engraved with what may be the world's first known reference to Christ..."

This is a joke, right? Kind of like Biden explaining how FDR went on TV in 1930?

I rather suspect that if the bowl has a reference to a man born in the year 0, it LIKELY wouldn't have been made 200 years before the man was born.

[Sopater]

"Χριστός", transliterated as "Christos" and translated as "Christ" literally means "anointed". Therefore, the cup could simply be saying something like anointed magician. My Greeks not good, but my point is that the word "Christos" or "CHRSTOU" doesn't necessarily always mean Jesus Christ.

[gedeon3]

And this thing is a fact? I also have land on the moon.

[rmlew]

This is just silly.
Don't Chirstian believe that Jesus performed miracles? This is an affirmation of Christianity.
Has no one an above room temperature IQ?

[Varda]

Does that look fake or what?