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Mummy Mask May Reveal Oldest Known Gospel
livescience ^ | January 18, 2015 | Owen Jarus

Posted on 01/19/2015 11:10:30 PM PST by SteveH

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To: SteveH; teppe; Normandy
Mummy Mask May Reveal Oldest Known Gospel...

Once it gets 'restored'!


http://www.mormon.org/beliefs/restoration

21 posted on 01/20/2015 6:23:11 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: biggerten
They didn’t have any, ducts weren’t invented yet, so no duct tape.

That didn't stop Fred & Wilma Flintstone from celebrating Christmas; just because Christ wasn't born yet!

22 posted on 01/20/2015 6:24:32 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Flick Lives

The title of this thread leads me to believe the comments are not going to be what they’re quacked up to be.


23 posted on 01/20/2015 6:25:34 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: PapaBear3625; teppe; Normandy
Then he would have had the scroll be buried with him intact, instead of a fragment used in a paper mache mask.

As with all fragments; only a True man of GOD can fill in the blanks...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Abraham

24 posted on 01/20/2015 6:27:12 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: 1010RD
Given the expense of paper, a fragment might be all he or his family could afford.

“It’s fun speculation,” Consolmagno said,
 
http://www.religionnews.com/2014/12/03/meet-popes-astronomer-says-hed-baptize-alien-given-chance/
 
 

25 posted on 01/20/2015 6:48:11 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: SteveH

One thing that I find interesting about this is that it pushes even further back the dating of the Gospels. I remember years ago reading that “the experts” said the Gospels were not written down until the mid second century at the earliest.


26 posted on 01/20/2015 7:01:42 AM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: PapaBear3625

And he probably would not have opted for mummification.


27 posted on 01/20/2015 8:19:46 AM PST by Bigg Red (Congress, do your duty and repo his pen and his phone.)
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To: Elsie

If it looks like a duck, and walks like an Egyptian, it’s an Egyptian duck!


28 posted on 01/20/2015 9:33:13 AM PST by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: Flick Lives

Quack!

https://screen.yahoo.com/king-tut-000000724.html


29 posted on 01/20/2015 12:58:16 PM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv6tuzHUuuk


30 posted on 01/20/2015 1:03:15 PM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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31 posted on 01/20/2015 1:09:33 PM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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