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The Jesus in this Sahidic Coptic papyri written around 300AD had a wife. The article mentions certain experts who vouch for its authenticity.
Translated legible text
not [to] me. My mother gave to me li[fe]
The disciples said to Jesus
deny. Mary is worthy of it
Jesus said to them, “My wife
she will be able to be my disciple
Let wicked people swell up
As for me, I dwell with her in order to
an image
because, to me, obviously this ancient document contradicts this tradition.
that the priesthood cannot be opened to women and married men because of the model set by Jesus.
Originally posted by Awen24
reply to post by reject
So...
let me get this straight. You think that a document written 300 years AFTER Christ proves the invalidity of the documents written 30 years after Christ?
That's...
utterly nonsensical.
Originally posted by TempleCat
Originally posted by Awen24
reply to post by reject
So...
let me get this straight. You think that a document written 300 years AFTER Christ proves the invalidity of the documents written 30 years after Christ?
That's...
utterly nonsensical.
Not at all. How many times have we seen something written 300 years later turn out to be more accurate that what was known 270 years prior? Many many times.
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
Originally posted by TempleCat
Originally posted by Awen24
reply to post by reject
So...
let me get this straight. You think that a document written 300 years AFTER Christ proves the invalidity of the documents written 30 years after Christ?
That's...
utterly nonsensical.
Not at all. How many times have we seen something written 300 years later turn out to be more accurate that what was known 270 years prior? Many many times.
Do you have many many examples?
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
reply to post by TempleCat
You're kidding I hope. Those links don't even come close to the same situation. A situation where statements or letters about a person hundreds of years after the fact were more accurate than statements and letters written by that person's closest friends and family from their personal interactions with said individual.
Please lets not compare apples to catfish.
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The first book written was probably 1 Thessalonians, written at around 50 CE.
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The Rylands Library Papyrus P52, also known as the St. John's fragment, is a fragment from a papyrus codex, measuring only 3.5 by 2.5 inches (8.9 by 6 cm) at its widest
It was very small — only 4 by 8 centimeters.
But Dr. King was struck by phrases in the fragment like “My mother gave to me life,” and “Mary is worthy of it,” which resemble snippets from the Gospels of Thomas and Mary. Experts believe those were written in the late second century and translated into Coptic. She surmises that this fragment is also copied from a second-century Greek text