Monday, April 26, 2010

Why was the dead sea scrolls so important to the study of the bible?

Hi, Orange Julius:





The Dead Sea Scrolls were so important because they virtually established the accuracy of the Old Testament.





This is an embarassment to Muslims, whose sacred writings say major changes were introduced into the message of "The Book", and to the Mormons, whose major book says that a "Great and abominable church would change the pure writings as Jesus gave it to the church."





So, God hid a little history in some clay jars for the end of the days that would validate His divine protection of His Word. And for those who are still not convinced, He hid a Bible code, sealed until "the end of the days", and you can break that code and read its message at www.abiblecode.com





Shalom, peace in Jesus, Ben Yeshua

Why was the dead sea scrolls so important to the study of the bible?
The liberals and anti-Christian scholars tried to say that the texts we had now were written to far after the time of Christ and Old Testament times to prove they are 1) Accurate to the Originals and 2) As old as they claim to be.





The Dead Sea Scrolls contain entire books of which liberal scholars said had been written in segments and edited together later. The Dead Sea Scrolls proved this not to be true. Also, the Dead Sea Scrolls are 90% + the same translation as what the texts we have copies from thousands of years later which proves their accuracy to the original.
Reply:Orange,


They backed up the writings that had been carefully copied many, many times by monks throughout centuries. The Dead Sea Scrolls had been in "cold storage" and yet they confirmed much of what was already questioned by a number of people throughout the world. Have a great week.


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Reply:Because of their dates!





Few atheists on this site have ever done much studying.





Throughout history Bible critiques have sought to disprove the Bible. Around the beginning of the 20th century, their argument was that the prophetic books of the Old Testament were written after the fact because of their historical accuracy.





Included in the Dead Sea Scrolls are copies of the book of Isaiah, one of the books that was criticized by the critiques. The problem for them? One of the books dates back to 200 years before the birth of Jesus, along with may other books.





That shut the critiques up, but they continue their quest, but they've always been foiled. God rules whether they like it or not.
Reply:It rises many important laws. It's still a sea that is dead to this day!
Reply:They have helped scholars to gain a greater understanding of period leading up to the New testament.
Reply:Because of their age and their completeness, if the scrolls were significantly different than the copies we already have, then they would be hugely significant to the study of the Bible since we would have a copy much closer to the original. Since the scrolls that are copies of the TaNaK are so close to the Scriptures we already have, they do not change the study of the Bible that much except to give us confidence in the copies we already have and to thank God for the skill and diligence of the Jewish copyists.





The non-Biblical writings in the scrolls, however, give us much new insight into the life and times of the people surrounding Jesus' life on Earth. The non-Biblical writings of the everyday life and ideas of the people, including their devotional writings had been less extensive and less well preserved than what the scroll provided.
Reply:The Dead Sea scrolls consist of roughly 1000 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, discovered between 1947 and 1979 in eleven caves in and around the Wadi Qumran (near the ruins of the ancient settlement of Khirbet Qumran, on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea) in the West Bank. The texts are of great religious and historical significance, as they include practically the only known surviving copies of Biblical documents made before 100 AD, and preserve evidence of considerable diversity of belief and practice within late Second Temple Judaism.
Reply:It was another link to the past. It also showed that the scriptures had yet another line of relation to other manuscripts that varied extremely little. One way people attack the Bible is to say that it was copied until it not longer resembled what we have today. The Dead Sea Scrolls helped to destroy that hypothesis.
Reply:it validated our Bible. By providing copies of them in almost exact translations Many had claimed the bible had been edited but the scrolls said we had true and unchanged book
Reply:Because the bible is a mutilated, dogma filled rag that has been butchered to profit the church.





The dead sea scrolls were the original copy. So they are not full of 2000 years of bull-crap.


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