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Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection

nytimes.com — The writing on an ancient stone may contribute to a re-evaluation of popular and scholarly views of Jesus.

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  • macewan, on 07/06/2008, -0/+1The Dead Sea Scrolls are here in North Carolina at the moment. Possibly in our capital - Raleigh.
  • AlwaysAwake, on 07/07/2008, -1/+1The fragmentation of "Christian" sects and denominations, based upon a myriad of intellectual "interpretations", and in the case of the Mormons and others, subsequent "revelations", will be further confused and conflicted by the words on this tablet. Christian organized religions, like all religions, are based upon an ages old, corrupt, non-spiritual concept; the idea called "Authority", personified in past and/or current "Authorities", and their oral or written words, which adherents must "believe" and obey. Indeed, in most religions, the Godhead is an unseen, unheard "Authority", which must also be absolutely obeyed, according to these past and/or current human "Authority" personalities, and their interpretations and revelations, negating all personal responsibility by the "believer"; a slavish co-dependency. The possibility that an individual person can now be choicelessly, consciously aware of immense energy and intelligence, inwardly and outwardly, inexpressible in words and ideas, is supremely threatening, terrorizing both living "Authorities", and their followers, who must be "obedient" to the rules of their religion, breeding hypocrisy, conflict, and confusion. For those of us who attach to these ideas, the rules and the earthly or heavenly "rulers", there is no awareness of the inter-connectivity; oneness; unity of all that there is, and all that is there now; instead there is mostly only endless struggling or enduring.
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