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Could this be the biggest find since the Dead Sea Scrolls?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1371290/Could-biggest-Dead-Sea-Scrolls-70-metal-books-cave-Jordan-change-view-Biblical-history.html ^ | March 30th, 2011

Posted on 03/30/2011 9:26:30 AM PDT by TaraP

Seventy metal books found in cave in Jordan could change our view of Biblical history.....For scholars of faith and history, it is a treasure trove too precious for price.

This ancient collection of 70 tiny books, their lead pages bound with wire, could unlock some of the secrets of the earliest days of Christianity. Academics are divided as to their authenticity but say that if verified, they could prove as pivotal as the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947.

On pages not much bigger than a credit card, are images, symbols and words that appear to refer to the Messiah and, possibly even, to the Crucifixion and Resurrection.

Adding to the intrigue, many of the books are sealed, prompting academics to speculate they are actually the lost collection of codices mentioned in the Bible’s Book Of Revelation.......

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: beck; christianity; ctr; godsgravesglyphs; hunstman; israel; jordan; lds; mormon; plates; romney
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1 posted on 03/30/2011 9:26:32 AM PDT by TaraP
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To: TaraP

What? Did Gladys Knight find a fourth Pip?


2 posted on 03/30/2011 9:27:19 AM PDT by RexBeach
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To: Quix; Joya; All
Revelation: Experts speculate that the tablets could be the lost collection of codices referred to in the Bible's Book Of Revelation....
3 posted on 03/30/2011 9:28:02 AM PDT by TaraP (An APPEASER is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last)
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To: TaraP

Wow. I hope they’re genuine.


4 posted on 03/30/2011 9:28:10 AM PDT by Celtic Cross (Some minds are like cement; thoroughly mixed up and permanently set...)
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To: RexBeach

No one dot or tittle.


5 posted on 03/30/2011 9:29:13 AM PDT by Davidlion
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To: TaraP

Very interesting, I wonder what’s in them.


6 posted on 03/30/2011 9:29:38 AM PDT by paladin1_dcs
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X marks the spot: The cave in Jordan where the artifacts were discovered
7 posted on 03/30/2011 9:29:44 AM PDT by TaraP (An APPEASER is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last)
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To: TaraP

Oh my heck! Proof positive that the golden plates truly exist!

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8 posted on 03/30/2011 9:30:04 AM PDT by colorcountry (Comforting lies are not your friends. Painful truths are not your enemies.)
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To: TaraP

I pray this is not a centuries-in-the-works or otherwise hoax.

I pray God’s will and God’s will alone will govern what occurs vis a vis this find.


9 posted on 03/30/2011 9:30:26 AM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: narses; NYer; Salvation

Ping. Interesting early Church related find.


10 posted on 03/30/2011 9:30:56 AM PDT by Celtic Cross (Some minds are like cement; thoroughly mixed up and permanently set...)
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To: Quix

Quix,

I believe they are genuine, all part of GOD’s divine plan to save human beings from eternal destruction...Revelaing his eternal truth in these *Last Days*

More:

Dr Margaret Barker, a former president of the Society for Old Testament Study, said: ‘The Book of Revelation tells of a sealed book that was opened only by the Messiah.

‘Other texts from the period tell of sealed books of wisdom and of a secret tradition passed on by Jesus to his closest disciples. That is the context for this discovery


11 posted on 03/30/2011 9:34:09 AM PDT by TaraP (An APPEASER is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last)
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I really wish that people would be a little more careful with this type of stuff. There are no sealed books in Revelation, that verse is in Daniel 12. John was told not to write something, not to write it and seal it up.

I suspect that this is going to turn out to be more reinforcement for the accuracy of the fragments we already have.

12 posted on 03/30/2011 9:34:59 AM PDT by paladin1_dcs
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To: paladin1_dcs

Daniel 12:28

Does say GOD will reveal his secrets in latter days.....


13 posted on 03/30/2011 9:38:15 AM PDT by TaraP (An APPEASER is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last)
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To: paladin1_dcs; TaraP
Boy do I have egg on my face now. I completely forgot about the seven seals that begin the Tribulation period. I really, really, really hope that this isn't that book.
14 posted on 03/30/2011 9:38:32 AM PDT by paladin1_dcs
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To: scripter

ping...


15 posted on 03/30/2011 9:39:03 AM PDT by latina4dubya ( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
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To: paladin1_dcs

:)

GOD works in Mysterious ways....


16 posted on 03/30/2011 9:39:24 AM PDT by TaraP (An APPEASER is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last)
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‘Other texts from the period tell of sealed books of wisdom and of a secret tradition passed on by Jesus to his closest disciples.

That's Gnosticism, and it is heretical. Although the amount of gnosticism present in today's world is extraordinary. Many people are led astray by the thought that they can get secret wisdom which mere Christians do not have access to.

17 posted on 03/30/2011 9:39:33 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: TaraP

Agreed, Daniel does say that secrets would be revealed in the last days but could this be Daniel’s book? I would think that it’s much too young for that.


18 posted on 03/30/2011 9:39:50 AM PDT by paladin1_dcs
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19 posted on 03/30/2011 9:41:36 AM PDT by catman67
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20 posted on 03/30/2011 9:42:19 AM PDT by dfwgator
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