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What could this be?
#21
RE: more to fight over
(March 31, 2011 at 8:55 am)reverendjeremiah Wrote: Great post tack..thumbs up for you.

Awwww...this is the second time someone else got the credit for posting something I did earlier...

I feel sad... Sad
Trudging through endless religion one step at a time.
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#22
RE: more to fight over
(April 1, 2011 at 12:52 pm)Nitsuj Wrote:
(March 31, 2011 at 8:55 am)reverendjeremiah Wrote: Great post tack..thumbs up for you.

Awwww...this is the second time someone else got the credit for posting something I did earlier...

I feel sad... Sad

*gives Nitsuj a hug*

*gives Nitsuj a Cookie*
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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#23
RE: more to fight over
(March 31, 2011 at 5:08 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: It's dated to 1BCE.... 33 years BEFORE the supposed 'facts'


How??

The article refers to some approximation of 2000 years old based on "corrosion". I'll be damned if one could date a piece of metal by its corrosion when the metal wasn't even claimed to have been kept in the same environment since it was made.
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#24
RE: more to fight over
(March 31, 2011 at 4:14 am)Aerzia Saerules Arktuos Wrote: And all we have to do is wait for minimalist to come in, take one look at it, and tell us all seven hundred and fifty reasons it is not evidence of 'Christ's last days.

But I enjoy a good war, so when do we get started?



I'm with the Israel Antiquities Authority on this one. It's a fraud and they are studiously keeping it away from testing to maintain the illusion that it means something.

They cannot even agree what language it is written in and the "cross" did not emerge as a xtian symbol until the 4th century.

However, even if they can agree on the language the translation is something else. Here is a side by side of two translations of the Khirbet Qeiyafa ostraka which deluded religious fools insist proves "David" was a great king in Jerusalem.

Quote:But how certain are the contents of this inscription? Without having to know Hebrew or the finer points of Northwest Semitic epigraphy, we can detect the actual level of uncertainty just by comparing these translations:

A. Translation on John Hobbins’ website:

1 Do not do [anything bad?], and serve [personal name?]

2 ruler of [geographical name?] . . . ruler . . .

3 [geographical names?] . . .

4 [unclear] and wreak judgment on YSD king of Gath . . .

5 seren of G[aza? . . .] [unclear] . . .

B. Translation “provided by the University of Haifa”:

1 you shall not do [it], but worship the [Lord]. 

2 Judge the sla[ve] and the wid[ow] / Judge the orph[an] 

3 [and] the stranger. [Pl]ead for the infant / plead for the po[or and] 

4 the widow. Rehabilitate [the poor] at the hands of the king. 

5 Protect the po[or and] the slave / [supp]ort the stranger

First, notice THERE IS NO DAVID mentioned anywhere in this inscription. Judging by translation A, which mentions Gath, we could equally be exuberant that Assyrian historical claims have been amply confirmed by this inscription because the records (ca. 712/711 BCE) of Sargon, the Assyrian king, mention Gath. Hooray for Assyrian culture and religion!!!

http://debunkingchristianity.blogspot.co...ption.html


It's hard to believe that they are reading the same language and this is only 5 lines....not 70 pages.
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#25
RE: What could this be?
..and if they found an artifact that suggested that Muhammad really did receive the Kuran from allah through Gabriel, then we should take that as evidence that the Kuran is correct?

Of course not..american christians will down thumb it..

..but if something vaguely resembles christianity, then it is yet one more proof that Jesus died and risen from the grave.
(April 1, 2011 at 1:33 pm)Aerzia Saerules Arktuos Wrote: *gives Nitsuj a Cookie*

MY COOKIE. I stole it fair and square! And now for a glass of milk..OWW NOM NOM NOM NOM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5KuG0gMMf8&feature=fvst



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#26
RE: more to fight over
(March 31, 2011 at 2:38 am)tackattack Wrote: http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout...an-history

I am a bit sceptical about this artefact being 1st century, there is a good chance this could be a later Jewish Christian artefact.
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#27
RE: What could this be?
Just a fraud.

http://danielomcclellan.wordpress.com/20...d-codices/


Quote: (HT Daniel Peterson and Bill Hamblin) Peter Thonemann at Oxford has staked his career on the conclusion that the lead codices being discussed recently are forgeries executed within the last 50 years. The following is what he wrote to Elkington in an email after he was asked late last year to comment on the authenticity of the plates based on some photos:
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#28
RE: What could this be?
Quote:As you will see, the ‘codex’ concerned is identical in fabric and design to the ones being touted on the BBC and elsewhere; the Greek lettering is very similar in style to the ‘Hebrew’ on the codices depicted on the BBC news website. There can be no reasonable doubt that it forms part of the same ‘cache’ from the Jordanian desert (or Egypt) – note especially the metal ‘ties’ at the left of the last photograph.
Sounds like he was sent pictures of completely unrelated codices (yet similar in fabric and design??) I thought they were lead and copper what is the fabric they were talking about?? Kind of kills his credibility though if he's taking fakes from Bedouins.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post

always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
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#29
RE: What could this be?
(April 3, 2011 at 12:46 pm)reverendjeremiah Wrote: MY COOKIE. I stole it fair and square! And now for a glass of milk..OWW NOM NOM NOM NOM

*Due to overuse of cows' milk, the good reverend Jeremiah suffers from osteroporosis, and consequently breaks his neck by slipping on one of Aerzia's defensive banana peel slippers the next time he attempted to steal a cookie.

Aerzia gives Nitsuj another cookie, and ensures that he eats it before she leaves*
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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