Posted on 11/20/2024 7:40:43 AM PST by Twotone
If only these floors could talk.
Scientists are going gaga over the earliest inscription declaring “Jesus is God,” claiming that this 1,800-year-old engraving could change our understanding of Christianity.
The mosaic is “the greatest discovery since the Dead Sea Scrolls,” declared Carlos Campo, CEO of the Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C., where the theologically significant relic has been housed since July, the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) reported.
Dubbed the Meggido Mosaic, the 581-foot artifact was originally underneath a floor of the Meggido Prison in Israel in 2005, after which it was excavated in pieces by the Israel Antiquities Authority over the course of four years.
It had reportedly adorned a private chapel in 230 AD that was reportedly the “earliest known house of prayer,” according to Gil Lin, the head of the Megiddo Regional Council.
Inscribed on the mosaic are Greek words, “The god-loving Akeptous has offered the table to God Jesus Christ as a memorial. Lin described this as the “first physical proclamation of Jesus Christ as God,” the Daily Mail reported.
“The mosaic presents groundbreaking physical evidence of the practices and beliefs of early Christians, including the first archaeological instance of the phrase, ‘God Jesus Christ,’ seconded the exhibition’s curator Alegre Savariego.
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Which is contrary to certain critics, from Jehovah's Witnesses to Unitarians to atheist academics.
Or at least one did.
Nope. A confirmatory piece of evidence is trivial apart from refuting people who invent their own fantasies contrary to long-existing evidence and documentation. Media sensationalism at its finest.
I guess they forgot what Immanuel means.
Immanu - with us
El - God
Miracles, The Shroud of Turin….we should celebrate such discoveries. They become the catalyst for a return to Christ for people on the bubble, and wash away worship weariness and may even bolster faith.
The proof of that is close to 2,000 years old, while deniers of His Divinity will say it was as a lower case "god."
I know several RCs who are Christian. I’m saying the term catholic and Christian are not interchangeabe.
I trust Jesus is your hope and salvation too. We all need more of this.
Citation please!!! It is no surprise since the Garden party there would be some doing their best to erase the only begotten Son of God ... Back there in the Garden of God, Jesus was called the 'tree of life', NOT the 'tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
As a recovering Catholic I approve this message.
It took me a lot of research to dig and find the truth. Once you see it, you wonder how you missed it.
I’m a believer sanctified by Christ’s sacrifice on the cross. Everyday I’m amazed by what he did for me, and you.
People would more readily part with money than with belief. There is something in people that fears being duped even more than being cheated.
The irony is faith is a hole in people that gets filled. Period. What it is filled with is the struggle.
You misunderstood.
I was raised as a Roman Catholic until I escaped that cult of Papism in 1971 just prior to my confirmation in the church.
I’m a born-again Christian, believer, baptized January 2003.
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