Dead Sea Scrolls prove that Jesus Hasn't Died!

In 1947 a group of children stumbled upon the first set of scrolls in a cave on the shores of the dead sea. These scrolls were immediately identified as the work of a very devout sect of the Jewish community that lived centuries before the birth of Jesus (pbuh). Hershel Shanks says in his book Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls: "Such was the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, manuscripts a thousand years older than the oldest known Hebrew texts of the Bible, manuscripts many of which were written a hundred years before the birth of Jesus and at least one of which may have been written almost three hundred years before the journey of Mary and Joseph to Bethleham" (Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls, Hershel Shanks, pp. 7-8).

An immediate frantic search ensued through the remaining caves in the region in order to find what other ancient scrolls could be discovered therein. A small group of "international" scholars in Israel were given exclusive access to them and the rest of the world was all but totally barred from gaining even the slightest glimpse of the texts (Prof. Eisenman observes that one of the major stumbling blocks for the publication of the scrolls was that "in the first place, the team was hardly international") . Prof. Robert Eisenman was one of the key players in the drama that finally lead to the release of the scrolls. In his book The Dead
Sea Scrolls Uncovered we read: "In the spring of 1986, at the end of his stay in Jerusalem, Professor Eisenman went with the British scholar, Philip Davies of the University of Sheffield, to see one of the Israeli officials responsible for this - an intermediary on behalf of the Antiquities Department (now 'Authority') and the International Team and the Scrolls Curator at Israel Museum.
They were told in no uncertain terms 'You will not see the Scrolls in your lifetimes'".

posted : 01 Jul 2008 | 4:31 pm

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Marriage of Jesus

In a setting where celibacy is prized and marriage considered a less holy human state, it has been traditionally taught that Jesus, as a divine man, was above human weakness and could not have been married. That belief is central to Catholicism, and has been preserved even in Protestantism.

Jesus was a descendant of the line of David, through his father Joseph, as we have been seeing. Being a pre-nuptial son of Joseph, a stricter view treated him as illegitimate, while a more liberal hellenised view accepted him as the legitimate heir. It was personally necessary to him, and necessary for his party, that he should continue his dynastic line, which aimed at political power. He did so by following the Essene rules for sex more strictly than his parents had, having a long betrothal period, a first ceremony beginning a trial marriage of up to three years, then a second ceremony when his wife was three months pregnant.

posted : 01 Jul 2008 | 4:29 pm

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