Cheers!
Posted on 10/09/2012 9:03:39 AM PDT by chessplayer
Remember that scrap of papyrus the media were screaming about that claimed that Jesus had a wife? Scholars are lining up to dismiss it as a forgery. The Smithsonian Institute canceled its planned documentary on the subject after scholars expressed doubts about its authenticity.
But the media, so quick to report on a scrap that CBS reporter Allen Pizzey argued “challenges the very foundation of Christian thinking,” weren’t so eager to report on the mounting evidence that the scrap of papyrus was a forgery.
The broadcast networks trumpeted the existence and import of the papyrus with breathless excitement. ABC’s Elizabeth Vargas even went so far as to proclaim: “Real-life Da Vinci Code. Christianity's biggest mysteries about to be solved. The tiny scrap of paper that could prove Jesus had a wife. Why this faded fragment might solve an age-old question.” Needless to say, the networks offered no correction to their story after doubts were raised about the authenticity of the artifact.
Print and online outlets, after their initial excitement, did get around to noting the mounting evidence against the papyrus. The New York Times, which broke the coverage of the artifact on its front page on September 19, buried updates about the papyrus on page 4 and page 14.
Does the media not do ANY research these days and with an Internet full of information?
I guess someday, we’ll have access to the Bible but until then, we’ll just make stuff up. Do I have to say it?
Jesus has a bride, it’s his Church.
The world of antiquities is literally filled with fakes and forgeries. When someone comes up with an amazing new find that charges everything but can’t provide a shred of provenance for the artifact then you can bet it’s probably a fake.
The MSM has an agenda against Jesus Christ and Christianity?
Wow didn’t see that coming.....
Just another of the zillion feminazi fakes, forgeries, and just plain LIES!!!!
The Orthodox Church is the true Church, founded by the Holy Spirit in 33 AD. Her Sacraments and teachings come down to us in an unbroken chain from the Holy Apostles of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, as attested by the earliest Fathers and up to the present day.
Heretics, Muhammadans, feminazis, and others do everything they can to discredit that truth, but their efforts always fall flat.
Amen to that!
Those of us who are belivers are really his bride, the Church.
I think that relates to this:
The broadcast networks trumpeted the existence and import of the papyrus with breathless excitement.
They really want this to be true. They want anything they can find that will help destroy Christianity. They should contemplate this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyh6bYmnD2Q&feature=related
The world of antiquities is literally filled with fakes and forgeries.
Especially from China.
I agree about the media.
Powerful video but they hosed the fire in the sky scenes from “Independence Day!”
The LORD Jesus Christ was never married...
God the Father was never married...
God has no physical children..
I know there are religions that say God was married and had several wives with whom He had sex and produced children..
But not in Christianity...
God was not only not married to any wives...
Polygamy has never been a Biblical practice ...
Polygamy is adultry and a sin and against the Ten Commandments..
absolutely agree with all,
except about polygamy.
...there is some support for it, in the OT.
and Martin Luther wrote in support of it,
and even attended a 2nd wedding of a German.
and after a bloody 3 nation war,
the Catholic church temporarily allowed it.
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But, i agree,
God didn’t have physical sex,
as some religions claim.
and, he DID have a Son,
which some religions deny.
As Dan Rather might say, “Other than being fake, what’s the problem?”
The alledged text comes from the Coptic perspective , one of the first schisms of early Christianity .
They believe that “Knowldge is Power” , both in this life , and in the next .
The Egyptian and Iranian Copts remained somewhat geographicly and physically isolated from other early Christians , and remained separate from non-believers whom they considered ‘infidels’(somewhat akin to the predominate modern Muslims ).
Their religious texts are separate and distinct from conventional Christianity , although they do share many of the books of the Old testament.
Since the text has no pedigree , and wasn’t found ‘ in situ ‘ by an academic , it will be found to be a fake .
A pedigree suggests a history of where it was found , supported by other findings close by , found by whom , when found , etc., or all the things a historian would want to know.
A provenance. Quite.
Cheers!
A little beyond my ability funny as it might be.
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