(To make it clear – the word is Celebrate – NOT Celibate ! The inference being that the monks have been practicing the wrong thing for centuries all because of two letters).
Oh wow :-/ I could see something like that happening in the bible too (In the sense that most Christians anti-homosexual views are completely wrong and taken out of context – which I think only recently we've found major discoveries in the bible that Jesus doesn't condemn gay people at all, and words like 'natural' and 'unnatural' back then simply meant 'customary' and uncustomary'), so although just a monk’s joke, I could quite imagine something like that being true in the sense that there is more to the bible than what we currently know.
Monk joke aside, I really admire monks and their discipline, I just think *man that must be a very lonely and depressing life*. I think one of the greatest things in life is freedom and fun and they’re missing out!
The older it is – the more Authoritative it can be.
True. That reminds me of the Shroud of Turin (which I have found extremely fascinating ever since I heard about it) and that the people who took samples of it only took it from the sides or something, and the sides dated back to A.D. 700 or something, and no one has been able to explain how the image on the cloth was created (and photographers were baffled too because it was a POSITIVE image rather than a negative). A researcher also said to create that image back in those times, well, it would be like painting a Van Gogh on the tips of dog hairs. But yeah in conclusion, what they all didn’t realize was that the center of the cloth could possibly date right back to the days of Jesus, but I don’t think they have investigated it yet because they don’t want to *ruin the image* or something? I think the Shroud of Turin is the best physical evidence we have of Jesus and his resurrection today.
So this article above talks about Palimpsests. So in Medieval times paper was very expensive and very difficult to get. So sometimes they would wipe out older texts and reuse the paper. (Like a blackboard but it wasn’t designed to work like that) – from the article "The concealed texts are in palimpsests, manuscripts on which the original writing was erased so that scribes could reuse the precious parchment. Faint signs of the original text remain, as traces of pigment or indentation, which can be enhanced visually through modern techniques of spectral imaging at different wavelengths.
Ah thanks for that 😀 now I get it. That’s like when you write something on a big notepad and on the second page you can see the indentations of the last page. Man that’ll be extremely difficult to decipher then :-/ like the article said, it’s not as easy as they make it seem on those CSI television programs.
They could find an earlier copy of the bible.
That would be awesome. As long as they don’t have ‘worship this new being’ sort of thing XD as it could be the work of illuminati or whatever – if they exist that is.
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I remember hearing about the Nicolaitans in Revelations as you mention.
I find it so frustrating that I can’t understand Revelations (makes me not even want to read it because of it). Every time I read it I try to decipher what all the symbolism means, but surely it cannot be literal when it talks about things like the scarlet woman and the dragon etc. (would be easy to think of it that way with movies and all that) but I think it means something completely different. Like you say, the way to find out the truth is going back in history to find the original source to understand it, and even then we can only go so far back before it has been lost from time/erosion etc. 🙁
Thanks for the tip on Umberto Eco and all that info, I’ll look him up and check out those links 😛
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