Posted on 02/06/2015 7:33:18 PM PST by ealgeone
A 1,500-year-old book that contains a previously unknown gospel has been deciphered. The ancient manuscript may have been used to provide guidance or encouragement to people seeking help for their problems, according to a researcher who has studied the text.
Written in Coptic, an Egyptian language, the opening reads (in translation):
"The Gospel of the lots of Mary, the mother of the Lord Jesus Christ, she to whom Gabriel the Archangel brought the good news. He who will go forward with his whole heart will obtain what he seeks. Only do not be of two minds
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I'd like to see the data that supports this.
> Divination is a sin (Deut 18:10). The bible would not encourage this evil practice. This find is a demonic work.
Why do you hate M-ry so?
Her Son will NOT look lightly upon your SIN!
I don’t hate Mary but I do dislike someone using her name to preach false religion. Her Son might really look down on that...
Scroll down to "Name Statistics."
The origins of the name are somewhat obscure, none of the baby name sites seem to have any history or meanings. I found the most interesting one here [and I thought my kids had run every stupid expression past me at one time or another.] href=http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Lafonda
As in "Grl, You lookin' all Lafonda."
O.
K.
No he didn't.
...Paul...
By the standard of historical fact.
....my last word on the subject.
Tina!
You fat lard!!
Eat yer food!!!
It’s purple and close to his heart...
Gonna eat them tots?
Mark 9:38
[ Whoever Is Not Against Us Is for Us ] “Teacher,” said John, “we saw someone driving out demons in your name and we told him to stop, because he was not one of us.”
Matthew 7:22
Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’
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John 5 New International Version (NIV)
The Healing at the Pool
5 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda[a] and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. [4] [b] 5 One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
7 “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”
My comments: No evidence is presented of actual healings in the pool. Other than the faith of the invalid to show up every day and to be placed in the water. I imagine that if healings were not performed, the pool would not have been very popular. Although as seen even today, when people are sick, they will believe in a lot of things even if it is just for the hope that it would help. Of course the pool may have been a natural therapeutic of warm mineral waters, etc.
On the other hand, if there were no healings at the pool, I would think that would have been a good teaching moment for Jesus to tell all of those assembled. Something like “Why do you waste your time on foolish wive’s tales, when true healing can be found in me?”
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I ended up reading some other sources of healings by others (Appolunus or something?). Of course I take the Bible as truth, and the other stories may just be stories - or truth.
I think there were 14 recorded healings in the Old Testament as well.
And speaking of the Old Testament, there is the whole sequence of miracles vs. magic tricks that Moses did with the Pharaoh's magicians matching him for a little while.
“It’s my experience you can be told nothing.”
Your experience is much more reflective of you than me.
Acts 1:26: “Then they cast lots, and the lot fell to Matthias; so he was added to the eleven apostles.”
Here’s my last word on the subject:
Acts 1:26: “Then they cast lots, and the lot fell to Matthias; so he was added to the eleven apostles.”
If you’re added to the 11, then you’re the 12th. Matthias was the 12th Apostle.
Collect their money. Tell'em some danged fortune or other. Git'em outa my tent.
"Next!"
Little did I ever suspect that famous theologian Joseph Smith was also the author of the Rules for Cricket.
And it came to pass that when my father beheld the things which were awritten upon the ball, he did fear and tremble exceedingly, and also my brethren and the sons of Ishmael and our wives. And it came to pass that I, Nephi, beheld the pointers which were in the ball, that they did work according to the afaith and diligence and heed which we did give unto them.
I never quite understood "Leg Before Wicket" until I read this American (of all things) passage.
So true!
But; what HAVE you been told lately that has changed ANYTHING you believe?
vladimir998 : 
“But; what HAVE you been told lately that has changed ANYTHING you believe?”
Elsie, you and I have argued for years. In debates on all things Catholic I have never seen you - even once - say you have changed your mind and come to believe the Catholic faith is true on something that you and your sect previously believed to be false. So, you seem hypocritical to now be asking “what HAVE you been told lately that has changed ANYTHING you believe?” when you have never once - as far as I have ever seen - changed your mind on any of the heretical, schismatic, anti-Catholic errors you hold.
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