Dead Sea Scrolls

Yesterday's World Religions class was challenging for me. We covered Christianity. Now that wouldn't be a problem except that the professor brought up some controversial stuff. He very strongly hinted that the New Testament is mostly false and that Jesus was a fraud.

The toughest thing to accept was his remarks about the Dead Sea Scrolls. He said that there is evidence against much of the New Testament teachings, but that evidence has been suppressed by the Catholic Church until a rogue translator recently released his findings. I haven't heard anything about that until yesterday and it's hard to accept because I can't research it at all for myself - no library or internet access. It could be true, but I can't just take it as fact just because I heard it in class. Everything else that was brought up I could defend decently. I like the challenging atmosphere - it keeps me thinking - but I wish I was in a proper academic facility with real research tools.


"The Message that points to Christ on the Cross seems like sheer silliness to those hellbent on destruction, but for those on the way of salvation it makes perfect sense. This is the way God works, and most powerfully as it turns out. It's written,

I'll turn conventional wisdom on its head,
I'll expose so-called experts as crackpots." - I Corinthians 1:18-19 (The Message)