France to close embassies in fear of cartoon backlash
France announced Wednesday it will close 20 embassies across the Muslim world on Friday after French weekly Charlie Hebdo published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed naked, amid growing unrest over an anti-Islamic film that has left dozens dead.
With Obama policy crumbling, White House blames movie for Mideast unrest
With anti-American demonstrations exploding across the Muslim world, the White House is insisting that the deadly attack on U.S. diplomats in Libya and violent protests targeting U.S. facilities in Egypt and several other countries are entirely the result of an anti-Islamic video on YouTube.
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Was Jesus married? Harvard scholar says ancient text on papyrus refers to ‘my wife’
BOSTON — A Harvard University professor on Tuesday unveiled a fourth-century fragment of papyrus she said is the only existing ancient text quoting Jesus explicitly referring to having a wife.
Karen King, an expert in the history of Christianity, said the text contains a dialogue in which Jesus refers to "my wife," whom he identifies as Mary. King says the fragment of Coptic script is a copy of a gospel, probably written in Greek in the second century.
King helped translate and unveiled the tiny fragment at a conference of Coptic experts in Rome. She said it doesn't prove Jesus was married but speaks to issues of family and marriage that faced Christians.
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Karen King, an expert in the history of Christianity, said the text contains a dialogue in which Jesus refers to "my wife," whom he identifies as Mary. King says the fragment of Coptic script is a copy of a gospel, probably written in Greek in the second century.
King helped translate and unveiled the tiny fragment at a conference of Coptic experts in Rome. She said it doesn't prove Jesus was married but speaks to issues of family and marriage that faced Christians.
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The Gospels were written around 60 A.D., but Gnostic Gospels designed to try and refute and disrupt Christianity appeared around 200 A.D., and possibly as late as the fourth century. These writings are not accurate depictions of Christ's life.
The big key, here, is that with such a ridiculous attack against Christianity, we must ask ourselves, "Was the news filled with stories of Christians rioting, or the professor's life in danger because of angry Christians? Was he arrested, or is his report being censored?
Of course not.
Islam is a disease. Muhammad is a false prophet. But the media protects them as they riot, calling the film being blamed disgusting and offensive. However, no such defense for Christians. In fact, the attack against the Christian Faith will be called brilliant and courageous - just you watch.
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The Tribulation table is pretty much set; all that remains is the Beast's, um, "revelation".
ReplyDeleteI can't express the feelings of, er, "rapture" that realization invokes within me.