http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...le-science-tv/
A new article of interest to those interested in the DSS.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...le-science-tv/
A new article of interest to those interested in the DSS.
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My wife, kids, mother-in-law, and I went to the Science Museum of Minnesota today where they are having a DSS exhibition until October of this year. It was all quite interesting.
However, the two things that I found most interesting were that:
- Many of the scholar's opinions (whose input you could listen to on audio devices provided by the museum), were of the persuasion that the DSS were not necessarily authored (scribed) by one group, but perhaps by many, and that to make up our minds in deciding that they were scribed by only one group would be a shortcoming on our behalf. I agree.
- The second thing, was that a large amount of the writings found had a decidedly predestinarian/sovereignty-of-God bent to them. Even some of the writings in the "Community Rule" scrolls, were all very much written in a matter of fact way to instruct, not as a way of law.
I am convinced though, that there has always been a remnant of high grace predestinarians, and it wouldn't surprise me at all to find out one day that they had been instrumental in trying to save some of these manuscripts for future generations.
I don't think any true gospel believers would feel threatened by having non-inspired and/or gnostic writings saved together with those they consider to be inspired in jars in caves for safe keeping, or for discovery by future generations.
In fact, who but someone secure in their belief about the facts, would group all of these different writings together?
It was an interesting day.
Greg
Isaiah 45:7: I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
I attended the exhibit in San Diego in 2007. It may have changed slightly--but there was a great discrepancy between the audio (Martin Abegg) that Greg mentions and the multi-media presentation in the theater emphasizing the Essene hypothesis as the truth. The best scholars deny that most of the scrolls were written by Essenes--who where a Johnny-come-lately Christ-hating celibate predestinarian sect in the first century A.D. But the exhibit had Talmudic Jews on-site to explain everything. They were supposed to be the 'final' authority on the meaning and origin of the scrolls!
Now see here how sleepy-headed all our opponents are, and how little it helps a man to rely on the ancient fathers, for all their repute down the course of the ages! Were they not all equally blind to, yes, and heeldess of, Paul's clearest and and plainest words?
--Martin Luther
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