2007-01-04 09:15:12 · 7 answers · asked by Realist 2006 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Is it not true that some prominent Christian scholars who worked on the early translations abandommed the Christian faith ?
The excuse that it takes a long time to translate is weak ! how many years now ?.
2007-01-04 09:41:08 · update #1
They will have an exhibit in Kansas City this month, supposedly with material never before seen by the public. Christians are flocking in to get tickets. I do not know any who deny the Dead Sea Scrolls. I stay away from certain Christians the same as I do certain kinds of non-believers. I may not be able to afford to go unless my parents (also Christians, lol) want someone to take them.
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2007-01-04 09:20:41 · answer #1 · answered by Morning Gloria 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Dead Sea Scrolls have nothing really to do with modern Christianity.
The Dead Sea Scrolls were written way before Christianity was even thought of. I guess whatever the scrolls say, would bear little resemblence to Christianity, and therefore may very well contradict Christianity. The Catholic church have chosen the gospels they think are suitable and acceptable to what they want the Catholic world to believe, if the scrolls told a different story, they'd have a lot to answer to. When choosing the 'appropriate' gospels they left out many other just as important gospels in favour of those that met with the way they wanted to run things. They ditched the one that told the true connection between Jesus and Judas, and led the world to believe Judas really did betray Jesus. This is in fact not true. Jesus and Judas had a pact and Judas was SUPPOSED to give Jesus up. This wasn't known to the other disciples as Jesus and Judas had a higher understanding of the true nature of God. Of course most people aren't aware of that fact, and would say that's a load of crap. But it isn't crap. My guess is, the scrolls hold some truly enlightening information about the early days of Jesus and his followers, that don't match with Catholicism.
2007-01-05 12:14:49 · answer #2 · answered by Kesta♥ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Allegations that the Vatican suppressed the publication of the scrolls were published in the 1990s. Notably, Michael Baigent's and Richard Leigh's book The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception claim that several key scrolls were deliberately kept under wraps for decades to suppress unwelcome theories about the early history of Christianity; in particular, Eisenman's speculation that the life of Jesus was deliberately mythicized by Paul, possibly a Roman agent who faked his "conversion" from Saul in order to undermine the influence of anti-Roman messianic cults in the region.
However, the complete publication and dissemination of translations and photographic records of the works in the late 1990s and early 2000s effectively undermined these ideas, since the 'new' Scroll material did not include anything which connected the Scrolls to early Christianity and certainly did not contain anything about the Catholic Church or anything the church would want to 'suppress'. As a result, most scholars discredit this conspiracy theory.
2007-01-04 17:52:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Oh, sorry, we're not keeping quiet about them. We're working to intrepret them, which will take us some time. We're not in any big hurry though because we need to allow more time for many of you out there to first accept and understand the truth of the Bible.
2007-01-04 17:22:00 · answer #4 · answered by Heaven's Messenger 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are many, many Christian and Jewish scholars working on translating them. This will take years.
2007-01-04 17:18:33 · answer #5 · answered by Shossi 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
because they dont go along exactly with the bible. and christians enjoy changing the bible to suit their own needs. its whatevers best for them.
2007-01-04 17:17:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
because they are scared of the real truth being exposed
2007-01-04 17:17:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋