To: Sopater
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."
17 posted on
10/03/2008 6:11:32 AM PDT by
blam
To: blam
"...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.
20 posted on
10/03/2008 6:20:04 AM PDT by
pickrell
(Old dog, new trick...sort of)
To: blam
"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.
23 posted on
10/03/2008 6:41:17 AM PDT by
Sopater
(The Left taketh, and the Left giveth away...)
To: blam
And this thing is a fact? I also have land on the moon.
51 posted on
10/03/2008 8:02:58 PM PDT by
gedeon3
To: blam
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?
53 posted on
10/03/2008 9:10:42 PM PDT by
rmlew
(NYARLATHOTEP / BIDEN'08 . If you don't believe me check out the first's wikipedia page.)
To: blam
Does that look fake or what?
60 posted on
10/06/2008 11:40:14 AM PDT by
Varda
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