Not this NONSENSE again.....back in 2012 "they" declared "they" found a papyrus fragment where Christ is supposed to have referred to His "wife".
Now the story made it back into the news somehow the last couple of weeks....Whatever, right?
But someone had a good response to this nonsense.... "The fragment is what people like King and Hal Taussig, who worked on the fragment with her, want to find—they need it to be real. Even if analysis of the ink, which is still pending, were to show that the text was written with a Sharpie, the fragment would still have its defenders.
That’s because the fragment allows them to talk about “Christianities,” plural, and “questions about marriage and sexuality and Jesus.”
The debate over this fragment or other extra-biblical texts isn’t really about what people in the third or fourth centuries believed—it’s about what people in the 21st century want to believe. Insisting that there were many “Christianities” prior to the Council of Nicea is a way of saying that there can be many “Christianities” today—with many beliefs about the core doctrines of the faith, from marriage to the sanctity of life, to the very resurrection of the Lord Himself.
That’s why Taussig can insist, as the Washington Post put it, that the fragment is “ostensibly as important as documents that make up the accepted New Testament.”" Eric Metaxas
Now the story made it back into the news somehow the last couple of weeks....Whatever, right?
But someone had a good response to this nonsense.... "The fragment is what people like King and Hal Taussig, who worked on the fragment with her, want to find—they need it to be real. Even if analysis of the ink, which is still pending, were to show that the text was written with a Sharpie, the fragment would still have its defenders.
The debate over this fragment or other extra-biblical texts isn’t really about what people in the third or fourth centuries believed—it’s about what people in the 21st century want to believe. Insisting that there were many “Christianities” prior to the Council of Nicea is a way of saying that there can be many “Christianities” today—with many beliefs about the core doctrines of the faith, from marriage to the sanctity of life, to the very resurrection of the Lord Himself.
That’s why Taussig can insist, as the Washington Post put it, that the fragment is “ostensibly as important as documents that make up the accepted New Testament.”" Eric Metaxas
But there were false prophets also among the people,
even as there shall be false teachers among you,
who privily shall bring in damnable heresies,
2 Peter 2:1
