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To: Uncle Chip

You wrote:

“These artifacts are under the control of the Israeli Antiquities Authority which is able to discern between genuine and fakes ——”

Maybe they do, maybe they don’t. You seem to be missing the point, however. The box may be genuine according to name, but not according to name’s sake. In other words, the box may really have belonged to a man named Simon Bar Jonah. That doesn’t mean it belonged to Simon Peter.

“... something that the magisterium in the Vatican seems incapable of with all of its Peter bones floating around.”

There are no “all of its Peter bones” floating around.

“And the Israelis know how to read Hebrew inscriptions on ossuaries quite well -—”

So do others. Also, you are staking your claim on the conclusions of a Catholic priest who knew Hebrew and not any Israeli. Did you forget that already?


200 posted on 06/09/2007 6:16:45 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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To: vladimir998
You wrote: “These artifacts are under the control of the Israeli Antiquities Authority which is able to discern between genuine and fakes ——” Maybe they do, maybe they don’t. You seem to be missing the point, however. The box may be genuine according to name, but not according to name’s sake. In other words, the box may really have belonged to a man named Simon Bar Jonah. That doesn’t mean it belonged to Simon Peter. “... something that the magisterium in the Vatican seems incapable of with all of its Peter bones floating around.” There are no “all of its Peter bones” floating around. “And the Israelis know how to read Hebrew inscriptions on ossuaries quite well -—” So do others. Also, you are staking your claim on the conclusions of a Catholic priest who knew Hebrew and not any Israeli. Did you forget that already?

These artifacts are under the control of the Israeli Antiquities Authority --- or did you forget that already???

201 posted on 06/09/2007 8:37:21 PM PDT by Uncle Chip (TRUTH : Ignore it. Deride it. Allegorize it. Interpret it. But you can't ESCAPE it.)
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To: vladimir998; Uncle Chip
There are no “all of its Peter bones” floating around.

Are you certain?

Did the Bones of Peter you saw with your own eyes contain Peter's skull or significant parts of it?

Did this skull or fragments match Peter's skull kept at St. John Lateran since the 9th century?

Since you refuse or are unable to present evidence of your claim I will help with Three citations for you. One rather sympathetic, the second negative, and the third, from an athiest site, very negative. It might be fun for you to read what the "other world" has to say.

The Bones of Saint Peter?

Peter's Bones and Rome's Truth



SAINT PETER AT THE VATICAN

215 posted on 06/10/2007 10:24:03 AM PDT by OLD REGGIE (I am most likely a Biblical Unitarian? Let me be perfectly clear. I know nothing.)
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