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Posted by parhad (Guest) - Tuesday, August 17 2004, 14:34:46 (CEST)
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...an article claims "scientists" have found the cave John the Baptist (Washer) used to annoint his followers in. Cave? I thought he did it in a river...or rather the pissant stream the Jordan is. He took water into a cave to do it?

My my, science is fascinating..and handy too. Just when you thought it was safe to go into the Shroud of Turin, they find a cave...just the place to dip people into a river in...I suppose they didn't find the river.

This is right up there with the fifteen thumbs, and all of them from his LEFT hand, they have in churches all over Europe where they nincompoop come to worship. I suppose it is sort of proof of divine intercession for a man to have fifteen thumbs on one hand...probably had three noses and an ear on his other hand. A man that strangely put together might find it safer in a cave.

Anyway...read it and BELIEVE. We're about due for another sighting of the Virgin Mary in a tortilla.

Archaeologists: John the Baptist Cave Found

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Written by GS on 17 Aug 2004 02:36:56:

Archaeologists: John the Baptist Cave Found
Monday, August 16, 2004

KIBBUTZ TZUBA, Israel — Archaeologists said Monday they have found a cave where they believe John the Baptist anointed many of his disciples — a huge cistern with 28 steps leading to an underground pool of water.

During an exclusive tour of the cave by The Associated Press, archaeologists presented wall carvings they said tell the story of the fiery New Testament preacher, as well as a stone they believe was used for ceremonial foot washing.

They also pulled about 250,000 pottery shards from the cave, the apparent remnants of small water jugs used in baptismal ritual.

"John the Baptist, who was just a figure from the Gospels, now comes to life," said British archaeologist Shimon Gibson, who supervised the dig outside Jerusalem.

...EASY fella! It's tempting I know...you find ten thousand rusty nails and ALL of them were used on Jesus...and no one else. Seems the Romans couldn't hit a nail to save their lives. Not to mention the True Cross AND the graves of thre Kings Constantine's mother, Helen, found in the Holy Land...I guess the Kings just sort of lingered on to watch Jesus grow up...and all died the same day...fell on each other in a heap she found hundreds of years later.

However, others said there was no proof that John the Baptist ever set foot in the cave, about 2 1/2 miles from Ein Kerem, the preacher's hometown and now part of Jerusalem.

"Unfortunately, we didn't find any inscriptions," said James Tabor, a religious studies professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Tabor and his students have participated in the excavations.

Both Tabor and Gibson said it was very likely that the wall carvings, including one showing a man with a staff and wearing animal skin, told the story of John the Baptist. The carvings stem from the Byzantine period and apparently were made by monks in the fourth or fifth century.

Gibson said he believed the monks commemorated John at a site linked to him by local tradition.

Gibson said the carvings, the foot washing stone and other finds, taken together with the proximity of John's hometown, constituted strong circumstantial evidence that the cave was used by John.

...when first mentioned this stone was "thought" to be for foot washing...three paragraphs later it IS for foot washing...wullah, miracles happen fast.

John, a contemporary of Jesus who also preached a message of redemption, is one of the most important figures in Christianity. The discovery, if confirmed, would be among the most significant breakthroughs for biblical scholars in memory.

..and think how desperate they are...now that Christians are murdering all over the place again...definitely time for a refresher course...maybe you'll want to join? Better to be a murderer than a murderee.

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