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1,600-year-old papyrus fragment contains earliest account of Jesus’ childhood
The Times of Israel ^ | 25 June 2024 | Gavriel Fiske

Posted on 06/27/2024 4:19:51 PM PDT by PghBaldy

A small, 1,600-year-old papyrus fragment discovered in a German archive has been revealed to contain the earliest known copy of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, an early Christian text describing the childhood of Jesus that once enjoyed enormous popularity but was not canonized into the New Testament.

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To: repentant_pundit

The Gospels were written letters passed from church to church and copies made.

Your reference is for the printing press?


21 posted on 06/27/2024 5:06:50 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: repentant_pundit

The very last chapter of Revelation written by the John, one of the original twelve Apostles, warns against adding to or taking away from the Scriptures up to that point. Nothing written after around 95 AD, the lastest time Revelation could’ve been written, can be considered the Word of God.


22 posted on 06/27/2024 5:07:11 PM PDT by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: PghBaldy

Suuuure.

They are forbidden to teach their own children about Christ in public schools, most have no idea he was a Jew to being with.

There are even rabbi’s who believe Jesus boils in feces in hell for eternity.

Sorry, I’ll stick with the eye witness testimony of the people who saw him.

This Clay into animated objects is along the lines of Kabb-alah where Jews call on clay to become a Golem.


23 posted on 06/27/2024 5:10:02 PM PDT by 1st I.D Vet
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To: PghBaldy

And a 1600 year old scroll would put the date of that about the same time that Islam was created. 500 years after Christ. Long past time that would have been any eye witness to make those claims legit.


24 posted on 06/27/2024 5:12:52 PM PDT by 1st I.D Vet
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To: Ciaphas Cain
I heard Dennis the menace was an attempt to tell the true story of Christ in a way that would get through all the censors in the Vatican who just created the Simpsons in the 1980s anyway, so it was a moot point in the end.

Ahh, strawberries. A conundrum.

25 posted on 06/27/2024 5:12:54 PM PDT by Dat
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To: cowboyusa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism

Gnosticism (from Ancient Greek: γνωστικός, romanized: gnōstikós, Koine Greek: [ɣnostiˈkos], ‘having knowledge’) is a collection of religious ideas and systems that coalesced in the late 1st century AD among Jewish and early Christian sects. These various groups emphasized personal spiritual knowledge (gnosis) above the proto-orthodox teachings, traditions, and authority of religious institutions.


For those who don’t know what it is...................


26 posted on 06/27/2024 5:14:56 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: repentant_pundit

No.

Parts of the New Testament were written within 20 years of Jesus’s death.


27 posted on 06/27/2024 5:15:46 PM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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To: PghBaldy

Here we go again...
BS


28 posted on 06/27/2024 5:16:13 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: repentant_pundit

That would be...wrong.


29 posted on 06/27/2024 5:17:00 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist .)
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To: repentant_pundit

1 Corinthians can be dated to the late 40s to early 50s.


30 posted on 06/27/2024 5:19:54 PM PDT by LukeL
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To: ckilmer

Thank you.


31 posted on 06/27/2024 5:20:54 PM PDT by Thebaddog (The hippies are running things)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

I *doubt* this is real.

See what I did there?


32 posted on 06/27/2024 5:21:57 PM PDT by DarrellZero
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To: PghBaldy

It didn’t make it into the canon because it describes a Jesus unlike the true Jesus. As I remember it describes a Jesus who gets revenge on mean childhood friends by using his divine powers.


33 posted on 06/27/2024 5:24:40 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: DaiHuy

It’s not true.

But Jesus as God is the creator of life and thus possesses the inherent right to take away life, thus a killing by God cannot be murder per the Commandments. Still and all, killing children in that manner is not part of Jesus’ nature.


34 posted on 06/27/2024 5:28:18 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: neverevergiveup

Can you prove what you’re claiming?


35 posted on 06/27/2024 5:28:58 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: PghBaldy

Reminds me of the TV mini-series THE WORD (1977)in which a “Gospel of James” is found and considered sacred, or is it?
David Janssen and John Huston starred in it.

Lots of fake “gospels” floating around 1900 years ago. Even the Shepherd of Hermas was once thought to be sacred.
I have a copy of THE LOST BOOKS OF THE BIBLE with lots of tall tales about the early apostles.


36 posted on 06/27/2024 5:31:48 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: PghBaldy
Newly deciphered manuscript is oldest written record of Jesus’ childhood: ‘Extraordinary’

06/13/2024 4:02:54 PM PDT · by Twotone · 45 replies
NY Post ^ | June 11, 2024 | Andrew Court

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4244171/posts


UNBELIEVABLE: Experts Discover Oldest Written Record of Jesus Christ’s Childhood, Revealing an Amazing Miracle Not in the Bible

06/12/2024 9:41:36 AM PDT · by george76 · 94 replies
Gateway Pundit ^ | Jun. 12, 2024 | Cullen Linebarger

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4243860/posts

37 posted on 06/27/2024 5:35:44 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Ciaphas Cain
depicted as using his miraculous abilities to not only create life and heal, but also to kill several children who annoy him, and cause others to go blind.

I think they're confusing this with a Star Trek episode

38 posted on 06/27/2024 6:35:01 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: repentant_pundit

Not really.

The synoptic gospels were written between 50 to 70 AD as were the letters of Paul, Peter, james and most of John as well as the book of Revelation.

The gospel of john was the last book of the new testament written, closed around 80 to 90 AD.

None of the 73 books of the Bible were written after 90 AD


39 posted on 06/27/2024 6:36:07 PM PDT by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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To: PghBaldy

It is fraudulent.


40 posted on 06/27/2024 6:54:43 PM PDT by madison10
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