Posted on 05/19/2005 9:31:48 AM PDT by mlc9852
Some "scholars", as in the so called "Jesus Seminar".
Yah, the Mussies don't like knowledge.
Funny. The Greeks got lost on the way to Troy, fought & lost a battle at Mysia before regrouping and heading for Troy. They should have put that part in the recent movie.
Also funny...suddenly revealed writing that had been invisible for two "centuries."
Are you Protestant?
It is amazing. Not everything is a conspiracy. Sometimes people have different interpretations of the same events but that is not an attack on your religion. Extremist on any side worry me, not ancient texts.
yes, but not a Bible scholar. I'm of the elementary mindset: The Bible said it; I believe it; and that settles it.
One would call it faith.
There are other collections that might also prove to be of some help to retrieve material, since reuse of certain writing materials was not unusual (vellum, if memory serves was one of the most common.)
I guess shredding and burning my notes isn't going to work anymore. That said, pretty impressive technology.
"Wonder what researchers will think when they dig through our landfills in the future?"
They will surmise we worshiped our trash as we saved it and put it in hermetically sealed sanitary landfill mountains. They will wonder about our obsession with baby sh!t as we wrapped it in absorbent paper and piled it up tens and hundreds of feet in landfills. They will wonder why we discarded the wonderful fuels for fusion energy like PCBs, lead and used motor oil.
I understand that there's a treasure map hidden on the back of one of the documents as well...
My thought was they would wonder about all those fast food containers.
I'm in the same boat as you, Protestant..but not a scholar, and in my case, probably not a very good Christian.
The reason I asked, was in a way a trap. The Protestant bible was amended not to inlcude the Deuterocanonical Cannon (Sirach, Tobit, Wisdom, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, and Baruch), or Apocrypha.
I've never read them, but now I'm curious.
Gets worse than that...Constantine the Great, Roman Emperor in 300 AD stopped persecuting Christians "by decree of the Roman Emperor" and moved his palace to Instanbul, renaming the city Constantinople, creating Catholisism, and establishing "the Father, the Son and the holy Ghost" in heaven leaving himself in charge on earth, ruling for 1100 years before Mohammed the Conquerer invaded in 1453, burning the city and destroying the Roman collected original Christian biblical documents, killing Constantine the 11th and reclaiming Instanbul. Some 250 years later, King James I collected Hebrew, Greek Orthadox, Latin, and other versions of the Bible, and translating them into English and writing the the King James Bible for the Church of England.
No, those book were never part of the cannon of Holy Scripture, they were of historical interest only.
More contemporaneous documentation of Jesus's existence is always a good thing, IMO. This could be extraordinary.
They probably won't find it in the apocrypha. The Gospel of Phillip describes Jesus as kissing Mary Magdelene "often" on the mouth, which offended the disciples because he apparently favored a woman more than them.
Now there's a sore subject.
Depends on who's Cannon, the Catholics Connonized them at the Council of Trent in 1563.
http://www.bluffton.edu/~bergerd/deutero.html
So, does this mean that my secret decoder ring is no longer needed by NASA?
That was what I thought about it. I would love to know what they say.
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