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Papyrus Referring to Jesus’ Wife Is More Likely Ancient Than Fake, Scientists Say
NY Slimes ^
| 4/10/2014
| Laurie Goodstein
Posted on 04/10/2014 1:54:14 PM PDT by mojito
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To: F15Eagle
Why don’t scientists ever discount the tale of Mohammed riding into Heaven on horseback as Islamist holidays approach?
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posted on
04/10/2014 2:03:09 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
To: mojito
Ancient fake instead of a modern fake.
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posted on
04/10/2014 2:03:09 PM PDT
by
Ingtar
(The NSA - "We're the only part of government who actually listens to the people.")
To: ari-freedom
Much like the Southwest USA.
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posted on
04/10/2014 2:03:11 PM PDT
by
originalbuckeye
(Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice. Paine)
To: a fool in paradise
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posted on
04/10/2014 2:03:15 PM PDT
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2ndDivisionVet
(I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: F15Eagle
You're right. As much an Easter tradition as coloring eggs.
Also time for the yearly classic Jesus never claimed to be the Son of God lie.
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posted on
04/10/2014 2:03:50 PM PDT
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DManA
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To: Revolting cat!
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posted on
04/10/2014 2:04:37 PM PDT
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DManA
To: mojito
I heard this on the radio today coming home from work. I thought about it and said to myself “if this is true, what harm is there in a man, even a son of God, to know the normal ebb and flow of life, even that between a husband and a wife?”
I do think this science and this discovery might be propped up those with darker ulterior motives and their reasons may be myriad. But, it still wouldn’t change my thoughts and feelings regarding Jesus and what we know about him through historical resources, more specifically through the bible in all its forms.
Frankly, I just don’t understand the point of it all, myself.
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posted on
04/10/2014 2:04:46 PM PDT
by
Gaffer
(Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
To: wattsgnu
What do you mean the Catholic religion?
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posted on
04/10/2014 2:05:17 PM PDT
by
DManA
To: 2ndDivisionVet
My understanding, limited as it is, is that rabbis have an obligation to marry.
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posted on
04/10/2014 2:05:42 PM PDT
by
mojito
(Zero, our Nero.)
To: F15Eagle
Many of the books were eliminated at the Council of Nicea and later ones, IIRC.
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posted on
04/10/2014 2:05:57 PM PDT
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2ndDivisionVet
(I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: ari-freedom
Jesus (Yeshu or Yeshua see Chronicles II 31:15) was a common name in those days.
Probably doesn't refer to Him.
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To: DManA; F15Eagle
I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: Im ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I dont accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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posted on
04/10/2014 2:07:49 PM PDT
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2ndDivisionVet
(I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
To: GeronL
Exactly. There were plenty of heretical “gospels” floating around back then, in the first few centuries after Christ.
To: mojito
Oh, for crying out loud...! Is it that time of year, again?
Does anyone not living under a rock (and especially after the execrable book/movie/cash-cow “The DaVinci Code”) really fail to remember that the Gnostic “Gospel of Judas” and “Gospel of Thomas” both portray Jesus having a “relationship” with Mary Magdalene?
(Irony, especially for the feminist lovers of “The DaVinci Code”: the “Gospel of Thomas” says that Jesus will “turn Mary Magdalene into a man, so that she may attain salvation, since women are not fit for eternal life”!)
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posted on
04/10/2014 2:11:54 PM PDT
by
paladinan
(Rule #1: There is a God. Rule #2: It isn't you.)
To: mojito
I’m not aware of any dogma held by Traditional Christians (excluding anything that might be unique to Roman Catholics) that requires Jesus have never married. But since there is zero evidence that he did why even go there?
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posted on
04/10/2014 2:12:56 PM PDT
by
DManA
To: mojito
It all comes down to what one believes to be true. There are a lot of writings from long ago that have been deciphered and rewritten over time. Sometimes you just have to pick the ones you believe to be true and take it on faith.
The people that wrote ancient words are not here to defend or prove them to be true.
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posted on
04/10/2014 2:15:14 PM PDT
by
soycd
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