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

Mind Unleashed ^ | Dec 2, 2024

[aumrl]

Yes
And ‘chapters’ were not established until much later

Re: Engraved-on-His-hands

[ladyjane]

early Christians lived in a world where their beliefs could literally get them killed.

Some things never change.

[Ezekiel]

This article is worth the ping for how much it says without saying.

It's *really* odd.

Maybe the [AI?] author learned off of term papers that say nothing.

No. There's something legitimately peculiar.

Maybe it's a test to see who will read between the lines for the missing text.

About the only nibble of substance is:

The newly unveiled chapter offers an expanded version of Matthew 12, a passage where Jesus and his disciples are criticized for picking grain on the Sabbath.

Maybe it's to inspire a reading of Matthew 12. I suspect that's a big part of it. There are many timely messages there.

I cruise through a lot of material on any given day, but this article crosses way too many points for today, in the weirdest ways. Such as:

It’s hard to believe that something written almost 2,000 years ago could still be hiding in plain sight. But that’s exactly what happened here. Using ultraviolet light, researchers managed to reveal a forgotten chapter of the Bible, hidden beneath layers of overwritten text on an ancient manuscript. It’s like uncovering a secret message written centuries ago, invisible to the naked eye but waiting to be found.

The process wasn’t exactly a walk in the park. Think about it—

A couple hours ago if that, I was reading about uncovering secret messages. That is, I was refreshing my memory of the "rebus" page. Hadn't been to it since I don't know. This was the match-up:

A modern example of the rebus used as a form of word play is:

H + = Hear, or Here.

By extension, it also uses the positioning of words or parts of words in relation to each other to convey a hidden meaning, for example:

p walk ark: walk in the park.

A rebus puzzle representing top secret

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebus#Modern_rebuses,_word_plays

But here’s what really gets you thinking—what else is out there? If something as groundbreaking as a hidden chapter of the Bible can be uncovered, what other secrets might still be lying in wait? This is more than a cool tech story; it’s a reminder that history always has more to give, as long as we keep asking the right questions.

("Maybe it's a test to see who will read between the lines for the missing text.")

Well, Spirit' wrote this post yesterday on the Cathedral fire thread:

Whew! Such a gift of blarney!

(S)he kisses the lips, Who gives a right answer.

https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Proverbs%2024%3A26

Rock on.

[stars & stripes forever]

Believers have relied on infallible Scroiptures for centuries and suddenly an ERASED writing appears. If it is contrary to established Scripture, this new “find” is not Inspired.

[Yulee]

Sounds to me like someone got caught writing their own narrative, had it erased, and an accurate version written over it.

[TheThirdRuffian]

The 15 is from the Mel Brooks movie “history of the world part I”.

Moses drops a tablet: “15, no 10 commandments”

[Getready]

Agree. The article repeats the same old notions, as true,that skeptics have always used. The poster probably told the AI client to construct an essay using the word “palimpsest”
There used to be a group who believed that Jesus stepped out of a flying saucer and was giving us space alien wisdom.
IIRC, the name of the “church” was, “Church of Jesus the Saucerian”. Was in Glendale, Cal....late 70’s I believe. I guess they thought Jesus was Armenian

[Carriage Hill]

I’m not finding it, either.

[madison10]

I am waiting for someone to find the Letter to the Laodiceans.

[Democrat = party of treason]

To believe such nonsense, you would have to also believe that the Holy Spirit was negligent in doing His job when bringing together and making certain that the pieces that make up the Bible as a whole were all there and were exactly as they were meant, by God, to be. This is just more fodder for the kinds of people who don’t want to believe what God tells us in His Word, and are willing to simply believe something else instead.

Regardless of that, the question that will be posed to everyone when their turn comes to stand before God to give account will be, “What did YOU do with Jesus Christ?”. Your answer better be “MY King died in my place and His blood washed away my debt of unrighteousness”...

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Not hidden just reused.

[Hebrews 11:6]

I certainly agree with the vast majority of responders on this thread expressing ready skepticism. I write merely to note their vast preponderance and to reflect how wonderful it is to be surrounded by such spiritually mature folk here on FR.

[5th MEB]

Hey; that’s exactly what the BIBLE I found in my FORTUNE COOKIE says!

[Romulus]

I don’t know how to tell you this, but...none of Matthew is in the Torah.

[21twelve]

“Drink more Ovaltine”

[Scrambler Bob]

“It’s a reminder that the Bible, far from being a static document, was shaped over centuries by human hands and decisions.”

= = =

I expect to see many more newly discovered bible books and passages revealed fairly soon.

And they will all be ‘dynamic’ changes from that ‘static’ old Bible, and related to today’s poor oppressed and judged society.

[UnwashedPeasant]

This sensationalist article makes it sound like scholars discovered a missing chapter of the Bible. Then it says transcribers deliberately distorted the Bible over time, “reinterpreting and preserving it in ways that reflected their own spiritual and societal realities” and that “the Bible, far from being a static document, was shaped over centuries by human hands and decisions.”

This is wrong. Anyone deliberately changing the Bible is a heretic. Biblical manuscripts like the Dead Sea Scrolls show remarkable consistency across centuries. Legitimate translators take great care to accurately reflect the exact meaning of the original text.

[UnwashedPeasant]

"Article sounds as if written by AI."

I agree. Poor scholarship, and lots of flowery sensationalist text while saying nothing.

[21twelve]

The Bible as we have it today is also “shaped by human hands and decisions” with all of the various translations. Which is probably all this was - somebody erasing something that could have been written more accurately during the translation.

I think it was the “Bible” called “The Story” that is written more like a novel than Scripture. I gave it to my older sister when she said the Bible was too confusing to her. She said she actually enjoyed reading it! She finally allowed Christ into her heart in her 50’s - perhaps partly due to that book, but more important were the two women that visited and witnessed to her every week when she was in prison for a year for a DUI.

IIRC, one of the letters that Paul wrote (to the Corinthians?) was very harsh, and after he sent it he regretted it. I can’t recall if he went back to Corinth to try to take back some of what he wrote (or how he wrote it) or if he just wrote another letter. Regardless, that letter never made it into the Bible. Perhaps for a good, and Divine reason that it was lost. The idea being that the Bible is the Word of God, and guided by the Holy Spirit.

Of course I guess there are probably “Bibles” out there where the “translation” is guided by man, or Satan. I’m thinking of the Thomas Jefferson “Bible” off the top of my head. Although that was just his own personal Bible and as far as I know he wasn’t pushing it on anyone. (Omitted any miracles).

[21twelve]

“Legitimate translators take great care to accurately reflect the exact meaning of the original text.”

I always like it when the preacher expands on the words written in english as compared to the original language. Like for our word “love” can mean three different types of love in the original. “Work(s)” also has three different original meanings. Human’s works, God’s works, and rarely iirc - Satan’s works.

It gets even more confusing (to me anyway) when God works through humans!