[Gamecock]

Useful talking points for talking with gullible neighbors or even fellow church goers.

[Biggirl]

Well just say, Jesus has a wife already..........Called THE CHURCH.

[fella]

"What is harder to understand was the rush by the media and others to embrace the idea that Jesus had a wife and that Christian beliefs have been mistaken for centuries."

Not so hard to understand when you consider that the media is heavily infected with the GLBTG crowd and those that agree with them and that to legitimize themselves they must destroy Christianity.

[IronJack]

So this wasn’t just an error in judgment: it was an intentional fraud to discredit the font of Christianity. Now who, I wonder, would sponsor such deceit ...

[all the best]

It’s the annual lets-discredit-Jesus Easter hoax.

[xzins]

Amazing revelation in this article. Thanks.

1. Someone in the 500’s AD found a way to write on paper that wasn’t made until the 700’s AD.

2. That scholars refused to reveal the data used to come to a phony conclusion.

3. That scholars appeared to declare “authentic” words about Jesus not written down until 500 or so years after He walked on earth.

[Alex Murphy]

"Two factors immediately indicated that this was a forgery," Mr. Askeland tells me. "First, the fragment shared the same line breaks as the 1924 publication. Second, the fragment contained a peculiar dialect of Coptic called Lycopolitan, which fell out of use during or before the sixth century." Ms. King had done two radiometric tests, he noted, and "concluded that the papyrus plants used for this fragment had been harvested in the seventh to ninth centuries." In other words, the fragment that came from the same material as the "Jesus' wife" fragment was written in a dialect that didn't exist when the papyrus it appears on was made.

CBS went on to show images of what they say are entries from diary-like memoirs written in the days after the crucifixion of Christ by Thomas, one of Christ's 12 disciples. The documents were provided to CBS News by an anonymous source. The entry most damning to the Biblical resurrection story, according to CBS, is one that appears to have been written by Thomas at the end of the day on Sunday, April 12th, 0033, exactly one week after what would have been the very first Easter Sunday. That entry begins with the sentence, "Not much exciting happened today." The "today" referred to, if the documents are to be believed, would have been the day Thomas (known to most Christians as "Doubting Thomas") met a resurrected Christ and felt the nail holes in His hands and the wound in His side.
-- from the thread CBS News Claims Documents Disprove Christ's Resurrection

[Maelstorm]

The tendency of secularist media to simultaneously declare the bible a fraud but lift up any fragment however tenuous as evidence of flawed doctrine is an indication of their open hostility and desire to corrupt Christianity if they can not outright destroy it. It is being increasingly done already under the auspices of a warped grace doctrine that translates grace into not a door to forgiveness for sin but as an endorsement and embracing of sin especially in the areas of sexual sin which is entirely contrary to the core of Christian doctrine and is dangerous particular in the denial of free will with ‘born this way’ propaganda. Christianity is a way out of sin though we may be born into it. Not a way to take pride in our sinful weaknesses and excesses.

[missnry]

However, the Harvard group that analyzed it was not careful enough.

How ironic wasn't there another Harvard group that gave Barack Hussein Obama a degree? He flunked lunch at Harvard and they still gave him a degree!

[RinaseaofDs]

Harvard.

I can’t think of much good that has come from that overpriced institution of educational debasement in the last 20 years.

That would be an interesting experiment - what good has come from Harvard in the last 20 years?

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[publius911]

Reminds me about Twain's comment on the shortening of the Mississippi, which concludes with ...

"Such large returns in conjecture, from so little investment in fact."