What churches are they in which the leaders and people in the pews need to be convinced that Nazareth and its Jesus ever existed?
I have seen these type programs on TV lately... omitted books of the Bible and whatnot. You can tell within five minutes whether the creators of the show have an agenda or not. I flip em.
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Good article and all, but I was hoping for some pics of the center showing a 1st century dwelling.
Thank you, a fascinating article.
Go to the link and read this entire section:
Discovery No. 5: The Gospel of Mark, widely considered to be the first gospel written, may have been penned only five or 10 years after the crucifixion, not 40 years later as scholars have thought for over a century. (continued at link above)
Why should these “discoveries” be “shocking”?
What a busy site the blaze is - could hardly read for all the junk jumping around. Seem to have heard about most of that some time back - but it was piece by piece.
https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=Nazareth&qs_version=YLT
“Nazareth” occurs 18 times in Young’s literal translation and 12 times in a 1550 Stephanus Greek version of the Bible, so I find it hard to imagine that the town would not have existed at that time. Considering how many religious letters we have, even outside the Bible, from that time, only a fool could believe no one would have noticed a major factual error, such as central reference to a town that did not exist, in the first two centuries of Christianity.
None of these should be “shocking” to anyone who has actually read the Bible. It’s all in there.