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UNBELIEVABLE: Experts Discover Oldest Written Record of Jesus Christ’s Childhood, Revealing an Amazing Miracle Not in the Bible
Gateway Pundit ^ | Jun. 12, 2024 | Cullen Linebarger

Posted on 06/12/2024 9:41:36 AM PDT by george76

Experts in Germany have uncovered a deciphered manuscript that has been determined to be the oldest record of Jesus Christ’s childhood.

As CBS News reported, the 1,600-year-old document had been stored in a university library in Hamburg, Germany, for decades. It was ignored until Dr. Lajos Berkes, from Germany’s Institute for Christianity and Antiquity at Humboldt University in Berlin, and professor Gabriel Nocchi Macedo from Belgium’s University of Liège looked it over and revealed it as the earliest surviving copy of the “Infancy Gospel of Thomas,” a document detailing Jesus Christ’s childhood.

The two experts said in a news release the papyrus contains anecdotes not found in the Bible but one that would have been available and shared during the Middle Ages. The words on the document reveal a remarkable miracle Jesus performed as a child, where he brought clay figures of birds to life.

In the Gospel of Thomas story, a five-year-old Jesus is playing in a stream while molding 12 sparrows out of soft clay in the riverbed mud. But when his father, Joseph, sees what he is doing, he scolds Jesus and demands to know why he is molding clay on the Sabbath.

Jesus responds by telling the clay figures to take flight as living birds, and they obey his command.

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According to Macedo, the papyrus was written in Greek. CBS notes it contains 13 lines in Greek letters and originates from late antique Egypt.

Berkes and Macedo said the papyrus was neglected for so long because past researchers considered it “insignificant.” However, new technology enabled the two men to translate the language on the document and compare it to other early Christian texts.

“It was thought to be part of an everyday document, such as a private letter or a shopping list because the handwriting seems so clumsy,” Berkes explained. “We first noticed the word Jesus in the text. Then, by comparing it with numerous other digitized papyri, we deciphered it letter by letter and quickly realized that it could not be an everyday document.”

The experts speculated that the story of Jesus’s miracle was written as part of a writing exercise in a school or monastery. This is due to the awkward handwriting and inconsistent lines, as the Daily Mail notes.

“Apart from what can be deduced from the general history of the collection, there is no evidence of how or when the papyrus was discovered,” Berkes and Macedo wrote.

Macedo said the date the papyrus was placed in the library is unknown, but it was likely after 2001.

Dr Macedo told the Daily Mail that he and Berkes would produce a critical edition and commentary on the manuscript. They will also re-address the style and language of the Gospel of Thomas text.

The results will be published in the Journal of Papyrology and Epigraphy.


TOPICS: Religion; Weird Stuff
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To: Dead Corpse
Almost completely wrong. Nicaea I said little to nothing about the canon. The canon in the West was settled by three local councils and a Papal decree (the "Tome of Damasus") between AD 380 and AD 430. The "Infancy Gospel of Thomas," with its ridiculous stories about Jesus killing two boys and blinding the parents of one, then miraculously resurrecting the boys and restoring their parents' sight, was known to be a product of Egyptian Gnosticism both before and after.
41 posted on 06/12/2024 11:33:23 AM PDT by Campion (Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - Little Flower)
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To: yldstrk

The story of Boy Jesus making birds out of clay and bringing them to life is definitely not in the Catholic Bible, or any other Christian Bible.


42 posted on 06/12/2024 11:35:06 AM PDT by Campion (Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - Little Flower)
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To: george76

Christopher Moores Book “Lamb” The gospel according to Biff, Christ’s childhood friend tells all about Christ’s early years.


43 posted on 06/12/2024 11:38:54 AM PDT by waredbird
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To: Tell It Right

And I wonder how you will respond if on judgement day God asks you to explain exactly what you meant by that?


44 posted on 06/12/2024 11:47:25 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: antidemoncrat
It's called "humor". We're allowed to do that, even a little with the Bible.

It's like, Eve was called "woman" because Adam saw her and said, "Woah! Man!!!!"

Genesis 1 mentions the first baseball game. It was in the big inning.

Why was Goliath surprised when David hit him with a stone? Because the thought had never entered his head before.

Who was the best comedian in the Bible? Samson -- he brought the house down.

Which book of the prophets is the easiest to understand? EZekiel.

45 posted on 06/12/2024 11:59:05 AM PDT by Tell It Right (Galatians 6:14 -- May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ...)
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To: george76

Be sure to drink your Ovaltine


46 posted on 06/12/2024 11:59:46 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: george76

The whole point of miracles is to reveal the nature of God. The feeding of the 5000 for instance points to the provision God gives us each and every day. Miracles aren’t magic tricks to make us go wow and be entertained which is how I see the clay birds coming to life story. When he was before Herod and Herod demanded a miracle Jesus did not comply.

If you want wow just go out on a clear night and look at the universe God created.


47 posted on 06/12/2024 12:00:10 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Tell It Right
It's like, Eve was called "woman" because Adam saw her and said, "Woah! Man!!!!"


48 posted on 06/12/2024 12:01:02 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: george76

In the Gospel of John he writes that Jesus did many miracles not written down in the books.

5.56mm


49 posted on 06/12/2024 12:05:03 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go. )
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To: george76

This isn’t new. This infancy gospel was rejected by the church.


50 posted on 06/12/2024 12:22:38 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: M Kehoe

“And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.” John 21:25


51 posted on 06/12/2024 12:22:44 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Navarro didn't kill himself.)
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To: dfwgator

That was a great movie.


52 posted on 06/12/2024 12:27:05 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: george76

This miracle, however, is recorded in the Koran and was one of the gnostic myths about Christ


53 posted on 06/12/2024 12:27:35 PM PDT by struggle
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To: Disambiguator

Just for the scene with “Vicky”, alone.


54 posted on 06/12/2024 12:29:40 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: george76

A new Paul Bunyan yarn would be nice.


55 posted on 06/12/2024 12:38:47 PM PDT by Buttons12 ( Enough about the problem. What about the solution? )
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To: Red Badger

I think you mean Gnostic.


56 posted on 06/12/2024 12:49:11 PM PDT by SpirituTuo ( )
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To: SpirituTuo

I don’t Gnow..................


57 posted on 06/12/2024 12:49:54 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: george76

the papyrus was neglected for so long because past researchers considered it “insignificant.”


and they were not wrong.


58 posted on 06/12/2024 12:53:17 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: george76

the papyrus was neglected for so long because past researchers considered it “insignificant.”


and they were not wrong.


59 posted on 06/12/2024 12:53:18 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: waredbird
When I was in third grade in a parochial school, the nun would sometimes read to the class, and one of the books was called The Boy Jesus. Nothing heretical but as best I can recall not very interesting stories.
60 posted on 06/12/2024 1:24:03 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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