Christ Conspiracy Preacher threatened with arrest for reading out extracts from the Bible in public - Telegraph

Powered by * Please note, the sender's email address has not been verified. As much as I find Christianity to be a false system - and I might have chuckled years ago had this happened, simply because Christians themselves have been so abusive and intimidating - I must wonder if the British police have the same cajones when it comes to telling Muslims to stop reading the Koran in public and to cease shouting "Allahu akhbar!" at rabid street demonstrations. The British police can't even carry weapons - can you imagine? Click the following to access the sent link: Preacher threatened with arrest for reading out extracts from the Bible in public - Telegraph* Get your EMAIL THIS Browser Button and use it to email content from any Web site. Click here for more information. *This article can also be accessed if you copy and paste the entire address below into your web browser. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/6034144/Preacher-threatened-with-arrest-for-reading-out-extracts-from-the-Bible-in-public.html

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[JesusMysteries] Bible Books.

Were there any books deleted from the
Bible at the end of the 19th century?
Neville Goddard said that there used
to be 88 books but 22 were omitted
leaving 66 books. Afterwards, he said,
some of these books were put back into
certain Bibles.
I have been searching but I cannot find
any evidence for what he is saying.
Terry



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[Real World Atheism] a soliloquy on open-mindedness

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[TC-Alternate-list] Video on Ancient Manuscripts of Matenadaran

I came across something neat on YouTube: under the title, "Ancient Manuscripts of Matenadaran" there is a nice presentation about Armenian MSS. It is about Biblical and non-Biblical Armenian MSS. There are pictures of some of the most important Armenian MSS, including the two pictures from the MS that used to be called Etchmiadzin-229, with the angel with peacock-feathered wings.
(The captions have numerous errors, but surely fewer than I would make if I were to attempt to make captions in Armenian.)
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Christ Conspiracy Islam in Action

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[Edfu] Liverpool Conference

Ralph Ellis writes:

As an aside, I am going to be talking about these subjects at the Beyond
Knowledge conference in Liverpool in September. All welcome.

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[JesusMysteries] Philo on Jesus?

How do scholars address the fact that Philo makes no mention of any Jesus in his period at all, even though he had a relative married into the family of Herod at the time?

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Christ Conspiracy God needs a Creationism exhibit in Tulsa!

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[TC-Alternate-list] Omissions in the UBS text shown to be Haplography errors

We have formatted Nazaroo's posts on CF which illustrate that about 1/3 of the omissions in the Gospels chosen by the UBS editors are in fact just haplography gaffs.
While this proves that Aleph and B had a common ancestor, it also shows conclusively that their combined testimony is far too often not the original text at all.

http://adultera.awardspace.com/SUPLEM/UBSgaffs.html

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Now Here’s a Rare Discovery Posted: 11 Aug 2009 07:49 PM PDT Believe it or not, sometimes the media gets something about ancient texts right. My friend Mark Goodacre (New Testament professor at Duke) posted this note (with video) about a good (!) BBC treatment of the number 666/616 in the book of Revelation. Thanks to Mark for this one! Technorati Tags: 616, 666, antichrist, beast, number, Revelation

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Freethought Examiner: Iranian women imprisoned for converting to Christianity

Iranian women imprisoned for converting to Christianity Wednesday, August 12, 2009 Like that of non-believers during the times when the Christian Church reigned supreme, the persecution of non-Muslims in the Islamic world has been well known for centuries, but it appears to be reaching a peak with the emboldened Islamists ... Read more » Freethought Examiner, D.M. Murdock D.M. Murdock, also known as Acharya S, is an independent scholar of comparative religion and mythology from a "freethinking" perspective. She is the author of The Christ Conspiracy, Suns of God, Who was Jesus? and Christ in Egypt. Her work was featured in the movie Zeitgeist and Bill Maher's Religulous. Her main website is TruthBeKnown.com.

[TC-Alternate-list] Vaticanus 1968 Replica NT and Numbers in Its Lower Right Margins

Over at the textualcriticism group a link was posted which provided a huge download of the 1968 color facsimile of the NT portion of Codex Vaticanus:
megafileupload.com/en/file/124461/Vaticanus-1968-pdf.html
The file is huge, but the space is well-used; these images are very nice. I have no idea how the 1968 pictures of Vaticanus can be legally distributed online, though.
Anyway, after sorting through the images, I noticed some unusual numerals that occur in the lower right-hand corners of pages 1245, 1265, 1305, 1325, 1345, 1365, 1383 (/not/ 1385), 1405, and 1425. (And the numerals keep on going, every 20 pages.)
It looks like someone wanted to place a numeral in the lower right hand corner of the page, on every 20th page. The numeral is repeated: first it is expressed in Greek letters, and then it is expressed in Roman numerals, except the Roman numerals are more like tallies than what we think of nowadays as proper Roman numerals; instead of using "L" to represent "50" there are 5 X's.
On p. 1245, 64 is expressed by Xi-Delta and by XXXXXXIIII, with the "IIII" written as a wavy scribble. (The page ends at Mt. 9:28.)
On p. 1265, 65 is expressed by Xi-Epsilon and by XXXXXX with what looks like the English letter "b" but which must be intended to represent "5." (Page ends at Mt. 22:36.)
On p. 1285, 66 is expressed by Xi-Stau and by XXXXXX with what looks like "//" (but which should be understood, it would seem, as blurred symbols for 5 and 1). (Page ends at Mk. 6:26)
On p. 1305, 67 is expressed by Xi-Zeta and by XXXXXX with what looks like "///" (but which should be understood, it would seem, as the symbols for 5, 1, and 1, totaling 7). (Page ends at Luke 1:55.)
On p. 1325, 68 is expressed by Xi-Eta and by XXXXXX with a scribble which must be VIII. (Page ends at Luke 11:11.)
On p. 1345, 69 is expressed by Xi-Theta and by XXXXXX with a scribble which looks like I and IIIII with the last four I's overdotted (which was supposed to mean "repeat this," I figure). (Page ends at Luke 23:5)
On p. 1365, 70 is expressed by Omicron and by XXXXXXX. (Page ends at John 10:27.)
On p. 1383, 71 is expressed by Omicron-Alpha and by XXXXXXXI. (The alpha looks like a cursive "X" at first because the arc on the left is faint, and the character has a tail.) (Page ends at Acts 2:14)
On p. 1405, 72 is expressed by Omicron-Beta and by XXXXXXXII. (Page ends at Acts 16:12.)
On p. 1425, 73 is expressed by Omicron-Gamma and by XXXXXXXIII. (Page ends at the end of Acts.)
I wonder if it was ever typical to write Roman numerals in this way, without using "L" for 50, and using "I" so much. It looks unusual to me. If it was indeed unusual, and other MSS have this sort of numeral-representat ion, this could be a clue about where the codex might have been at the time when numerals were written in this way.
(1245, divided by 20, is 62.25. So it would seem that on every 20th page, from the very beginning of the codex, these numbers were written down, but some counting-mistakes occurred. Or maybe the mistake was in the Arabic numerals.)
(I asked the same question at textualcriticism, but no one has replied yet; I may try again since I posted in the middle of a flurry-filled discussion about something not nearly as interesting as this is.)
Yours in Christ,
James Snapp, Jr.
P.S. In the color images of Vaticanus, you can clearly see umlauts in the first /cursive/ page in Hebrews.

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[TC-Alternate-list] Sensational Theories and Stephan Huller

Ben,
It looks like R.J. has been reading "The Real Messiah," by Stephan Huller, an author whose work, unfortunately, seems to be of a genre somewhere between The Bible Code and The Da Vinci Code. As far as I can tell, Huller's Big Idea is that Agrippa was the real Messiah. And, as far as I can tell, he seems to think that Jesus saw Messiahship as a sort of dynastic position and wanted Mark to be the next Messiah-office-holder. Robert Price sums up Huller's ideas at
http://frommessiahtopariah.blogspot.com/2007/04/robert-price.html
(Over at the textualcriticism group, Huller seems to be experimenting with a defense of the idea that the Gospel of John is very late -- late enough to reflect the author's awareness of the Marcionites. To do that, he has to say that P52 is something other that what it is; i.e., instead of being a part of the Gospel of Mark, that it is part of a some sort of Super-Gospel text resembling the Diatessaron in its scope.)
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James Snapp, Jr.

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