A New Chapter Of The Bible Was Found Hidden Inside 1,750-Year-Old Text

Mind Unleashed ^ | Dec 2, 2024

[RoosterRedux]

Bfl

[DocRock]

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[StAntKnee]

It was, as they say, in the Bible.

[TLI]

But does it fit the narrative?

Seems like there were other such manuscripts around, they did not fit so snip.

Makes me wonder if there really was 15 Commandments and “something happened.”

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[Tell It Right]

Next they’ll tell us that the book of Daniel had a missing 13th and 14th chapter teaching how to kill dragons with hairballs.

[stars & stripes forever]

IMO, f the text was erased, it probably was because it wasn’t part of the Torah. If it doesn’t line up with the rest of Scripture, it isn’t Inspired.

GOD is the same Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. Yes and No, never Maybe.

[dangus]

No hint at what it says?

Matthew as we have it probably has a few sources: one common to Luke, Mark itself (presumably written with the authority of Peter, since Mark worked for Peter), and an older text which I’ve always presumed to be Hebrew or Aramaic but Syriac is plausible. Is this “found Gospel” from a Gospel of Matthew, or an early version of it? There are many Syriac translations of early bibles, but does this suggest that proto-Matthew was Syriac? Would Levi the apostle also known as Matthew have written in Syriac?

[Repeal The 17th]

If the author ever, in his wordy article tells what the
hidden text says, I must have missed it.

[FamiliarFace]

Maybe 12 commandments and then “snip”? What’s Biblical about 15?

I take this sort of thing with a grain of salt.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

I just cracked the translation guys using my Syriac dictionary! Here it is:

“And the Lord said unto them, Drink thine ovaltine.” Matthew 12:51

[metmom]

Ultimately, this find is about more than one chapter. It’s a reminder that the Bible, far from being a static document, was shaped over centuries by human hands and decisions. For scholars and believers alike, the chapter offers a chance to reexamine the past while raising new questions about the stories still waiting to be uncovered.

Did God REALLY say....????

[DJ MacWoW]

Far from being passive transcribers, they actively engaged with the material, reinterpreting and preserving it in ways that reflected their own spiritual and societal realities.

Some "modern" churches do the same and it then ceases to be God's word, it becomes man"s.

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

Whoever wrote this is clueless. Check the textual apparatus of any Greek New Testament and it will show the known variations of each verse in the New Testament. The idea that scribes in general were free and loose with the text is ludicrous and empirically disprovable.

[OHelix]

Seems like faux intelectual anti bible propaganda piece masquerading as academic critique. Did I miss the example text that demonstrates that scribes just made up whatever they felt like all willy nilly? ...because thats essentially the implication of the whole article, with ZERO text cited to support that specious cliche.

[daniel1212]

Conspiracy theories are not new, and neither are assertions of contradictions. Yet, regarding the latter, the reality is that despite almost 800,000 words, within 66 books, consisting of multiple literary forms and of expression, penned over about 1600 years thru about 40 different persons, and changes in spelling, sentence structure and translator’s preferences between multitudes of manuscripts (mainly from 2 languages) of varying quality, and translated from manuscripts the Truth and message is consistent, and with alleged contradictions as here being explained, by the grace of God.

Related:

https://danielbwallace.com/2014/03/24/can-we-still-believe-the-bible/

https://bible.org/article/number-textual-variants-evangelical-miscalculation

https://defendinginerrancy.com/were-nt-mss-copied-accurately/

[Verginius Rufus]

There may have been a Hebrew or Aramaic version of Matthew still extant at the time of St. Jerome, but perhaps a translation of the Greek. Our text of Matthew is believed to have used the Gospel of Mark as a source. Our version of Matthew was written in Greek.

Several decades ago a scholar named Morton Smith claimed to have discovered "the secret gospel of Mark" but apparently it was a fraud he was trying to perpetrate. He died years ago.

[TLI]

“Maybe 12 commandments and then “snip”? What’s Biblical about 15?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wunGF3oMA0

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[Z28.310]

“Did God really say...?”

We’ve read of someone saying this...somewhere...

[MNJohnnie]

Sounds like this “discovery” is an attempt to re-write the Bible to suit a modern social agenda.