Re: Dead Sea Scrolls arrive in Charlotte, North Carolina.

On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:49:26 -0500, Jazare@xxxxxxxxx (ba ba booie)
wrote:

bbb wrote:
Does anyone believe in the info that is on the Dead Sea scrolls?


We can't get facts straight 100 to 500 years back. Now you/not me are
going to trust 2,000-year-old documents. How do you know they are/were
valid?

Not the scrolls itself,
but the information that's on it?

***More than 200,000 people are expected to come see the scrolls, and
more than 40,000 tickets have already been sold.***


Suckers???

Why would someone be a sucker if they want to see a historical
artifact? Whether one believes the scrolls' contents or not, they are
the oldest link to the Bible. Which do you think is more likely to
accruately reflect events from more than two thousand years ago:
something that was written a few hundred years ago (with the
intervening passage of time and interpretation), or something that was
written two thousand years ago? You can debate endlessly the accuracy
of the scrolls' content, but as a 2,000 year old recording of history
(as they saw it at the time), they are truly fascinating. I don't
think you have to be particularly religious to be interested in seeing
them, but I can certainly see how strongly they would resonate with
someone who is very religious.

-- Andy (remove z's to respond)

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