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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 Bibles 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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posted on
03/30/2011 9:26:32 AM PDT
by
TaraP
To: TaraP
What? Did Gladys Knight find a fourth Pip?
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posted on
03/30/2011 9:27:19 AM PDT
by
RexBeach
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....
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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)
To: TaraP
Wow. I hope they’re genuine.
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posted on
03/30/2011 9:28:10 AM PDT
by
Celtic Cross
(Some minds are like cement; thoroughly mixed up and permanently set...)
To: RexBeach
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posted on
03/30/2011 9:29:13 AM PDT
by
Davidlion
To: TaraP
Very interesting, I wonder what’s in them.
To: All
X marks the spot: The cave in Jordan where the artifacts were discovered
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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)
To: TaraP
Oh my heck! Proof positive that the golden plates truly exist!
</ sarcasm>
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posted on
03/30/2011 9:30:04 AM PDT
by
colorcountry
(Comforting lies are not your friends. Painful truths are not your enemies.)
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.
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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)
To: narses; NYer; Salvation
Ping. Interesting early Church related find.
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posted on
03/30/2011 9:30:56 AM PDT
by
Celtic Cross
(Some minds are like cement; thoroughly mixed up and permanently set...)
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
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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)
To: TaraP
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.
To: paladin1_dcs
Daniel 12:28
Does say GOD will reveal his secrets in latter days.....
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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)
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.
To: scripter
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posted on
03/30/2011 9:39:03 AM PDT
by
latina4dubya
( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
To: paladin1_dcs
:)
GOD works in Mysterious ways....
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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)
To: TaraP
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.
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.
To: TaraP
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posted on
03/30/2011 9:41:36 AM PDT
by
catman67
To: catman67
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03/30/2011 9:42:19 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
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