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@UC99f-Nqscfq79T5b53NaVMQ It really depends on what kind of books you want to read. For almost all Christians, I suggest C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity. I also suggest the Catechism of the Council of Trent, the Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas, Faith of our Fathers by Cardinal Gibbons. I am not a fan of books written in the last 50 years, but if I had to choose something, it would be Probes: Deep Sea Diving into Saint John's Gospel by Peter Kreeft, Surprised by Truth by Patrick Madrid, or anything by Scott Hahn. And of course, The NASB Catholic Study Bible. I've read my Bible 8 times front to back and probably over 15 times total. Memorize the Gospel of John. Learn how the early Church Fathers and the early Christians practiced their faith. The fundaments of what is means to be a Christian is to have the Eucharist (celebrate the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass) and be Baptized. This was never questioned by any of the early Christians or by anyone for over 1100 years after Christ.
You know, when The Ten Minute Bible Hour is really close to ten minutes, you become very concise, very precise and very absorbable. This was the best explanation of the Dead Sea Scrolls I've ever heard, and I have heard them droned-on about way too many times. Well done.
true, but I really like more information when I learn about Bible's stuff. Especially when there's a good narrator like him. It'd be a pity ti limit him to 10m ahah
Truly amazing how God unveils more and more to us just setting it all in concrete! We have NO excuses God has given us every opportunity to be saved! Praise Jesus our Lord!!!
When I went to Israel last winter, I had the amazing opportunity to see some of the Dead Sea Scrolls and boy was it amazing. Thanks Matt for the amazing video!
Must have been amazing to see the original copies of the 1st and 2nd books of Adam and Eve ...... and Enoch and Jubilees etc. 1000yrs old ! Did they say why these Hebrew books were not included in the Jewish Old Testament ?
You have inspired me into reading the bible, I started binge watching your content 2 weeks ago, therefor I wanted to say thank You for all your hard work and keep up making amazing videos that edcuate and change peoples lives.
You got my attention! And knowing that it's going to be an NDQ episode means that it's going to be a crazy deep dive! After the Mobile Bay episode, it's your turn in your wheelhouse anyways!
People have been trying to figure that out for some time now but no one has been able to find where the treasure is - actually multiple locations are mentioned.
Hi Matt, just beginning my walk with God and I have so much I want to understand. Most of my life I’ve maintained an agnostic position without really digging into all the information. My brother, who is a Christian, has helped me so much to understand the word and I too am fascinated by the Dead Sea scrolls. Thanks for a great intro and look forward to hearing more from you about TDSS🙏
Congrats on your walk. I am TRULY excited for you. I love this and so many things about this. The more you learn about history and the time and the culture, the more that I have found it fascinating, reconfirming and AWESOME. And by awesome, I mean in the real sense of the word in that it fills me with awe.
How Interesting that Israel is became a nation in 1948 The dead sea scrolls were found in 1947. The Lords words to Daniel Daniel 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
Sorry but Israel is not a nation Paul makes clear that a Jew is not a Jew outwardly and not all Israel is Israel Israel is Gods chosen people made up Jew AND Gentile
@@eagleclaw1179 that was a teaching in the book of hebrews to show that there is a new covanent for jews to follow and has nothing to do with the 1948 fig tree prophesy....that daily animal sacrifices...circumcission ...was gone away forever...with JESUS CHRIST...YASHUA...YWHW...being the lamb of life that the passsover was about eternal life ..circumcission was replaced by water baptism...
Its a shame they don't use them then isn't it ! Jews use just 24 books and Christians count the same 24 as 39. They would all be a lot wiser if the read the much older DSS rather than the Jewish OT based on the Masoretic Text, corrupted 5x and written 600-800ad, whereas the DSS go back to 500bc and even older if the ones we have today are re-writes of even older scrolls. Go read I say !
Matt, please consider recording a dialog with Jimmy Akin. He's spoken a lot about this topic too and it would be fascinating to hear the two of you talk.
Not only a 2300 year old story but a 2300 year old story that is THE SAME as our Bible today - despite the number of translations and interpretations....WOW!
Mmm maybe not the same. But close. There are a few mistranslations if you might be interested in hearing. I can offer any proof I have to offer and you can draw your conclusions :)
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Just unsubscribe your Patreon to this page. Use the money to eat..this guy is a RUclipsr, he can go get a regular job like the rest of us. Take care of your family.
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I found out the hard way, that if papyrus is not stored properly, it can disintegrate very quickly. Another reason why vellum and parchment were preferred. I had made a copy of a portion of one of the gospels in Greek, on papyrus, and after I had used them set them on top of a bookcase. They fell down behind it, and stayed there until I moved. When I moved the bookcase, all that was left was parts of two pages. Badly decomposed.
Matt...great to see you take up the Dead Sea Scrolls. An interesting (to me anyway) sidenote: In 1957 I was in freshman Old Testament History at Trinity University, San Antonio. One text book, published two or three years earlier, took passing notice of the Scrolls, saying that parchment scrolls found recently near the Dead Sea seemed to offer an "interesting corroboration" of biblical writings but that mire study was needed. That has always seemed to be an overly cautious way to approach anything as profound as the Dead Sea Scrolls. But I suppose that was the safest way to introduce a significant event of such magnitude and hang on to your research grants at the same time. Great topic!!!
I’ve been sliding away from religion for a while now. Each day, I find more issues with the theology, doctrines, and practices of each religion. I still go to church, but don’t believe what I hear. As I move further away, I become more and more critical of organized religion. Your videos, however, are a different story. I quite like them, and will continue being a fan of yours. Thank you for your genuineness, effort, and diligence. -CS
I hear u dude, but what I've come realize is that I usually stop praying and trying to be intentional with the way I spend my time whenever I start pulling away from Christianity. If I ever have an issue with christianity its mostly with people being hypocrites or being ignorant about stuff. But, I always have to remind myself that I'm just as bad as the next guy and I need to work on myself and my relationship with God before I begin to judge others. As for the doctrine/theology itself I'm orthodox christian and I honestly dont know that much about orthodoxy. I don't think every part of orthodoxy is perfect but I do believe its the best way to live as a christian (just because all the traditional fasts help keep you spiritually strong, and other stuff I find in orthodoxy that isn't in Catholicism or protestants) In the end, when I'm really struggling I try to block out other people and just decide to study the scriptures myself. The hardest thing I've had to do is to consider I might be wrong about christianity as a whole, but I realized that it shouldn't be the scariest thing because if Christianity is wrong then I've been believing a lie. But if it's true the dumbest thing I could do is to leave it, especially since I wouldn't have an excuse. Just curious what issues do you find with the theology/doctrines/practices of each religion.
@Dunking Astronaut From Uranus LORD Jesus felt a similar way. You’re not too far off from the kingdom of Heaven. *Matthew 23:1-13* “1Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, 2Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: 3All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. 4For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. 5But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, 6And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, 7And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi. 8But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. 9And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. 10Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ. 11But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant. 12And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted. 13But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.”
@@yabesira7351 Salam / Peace. I'm a Muslim. ********* Believers in God as a SINGLE PERSON (God the Father) were at the beginning of the third century still forming THE LARGE MAJORITY. (Ency. Britannica; 11th Ed; Vol 23; p. 963). ********** As you can see, slowly but surely, the false teachers over the centuries prevailed and wiped out those on the truth. The 3 in 1 falsehood called the Trinity became the Orthodoxy.
@@yabesira7351 Jesus said and foretold COMMANDED by THE ONLY TRUE GOD - THE FATHER: BY THE FRUITS YE SHALL KNOW THEM. Radical Monotheism exactly like the Jewish Prophets / Jews to believe in a uniquely ONE GOD - without any partners or equals or like a three in one falsehood called the Trinity - plus believing in the Messiah Jesus the Prophet sent by God, and the essential consistency with his doctrine - the Muslim. The very words that the Father - THE ONLY TRUE GOD - COMMANDED Jesus Christ to say. The doctrine of THE ONLY TRUE GOD that HE COMMANDED Jesus Christ to give. The testimony of Jesus Christ on the Father: - The Only True God (John 17:3) - The Only One Who Knows The Hour (Mark 13:32) - Greater than I (John 14:28) - Greater than all (John 10:29) - My God and Your God (John 20:17) The doctrine of Jesus Christ = The doctrine of a Muslim. (Of course the term Father in the Jewish context. A figure of speech for their times. NOT that God has a literal Son. God has got Son by the Ton in the Bible.) Defenders of the true honor and status of Jesus Christ against lies and abominations which includes the Crucifixion. VERSUS Christianity more like the Greek and Roman doctrines and the pagan doctrines like "God" coming down in human form and human / blood sacrifice that pagans had going hand in hand with Paul's doctrines of easy fake salvation with blood of an innocent, making the Merciful God in to a blood thirsty vampire. The same people making Jesus Christ UNRIGHTEOUS by their position (believing in the fiction called Crucifixion) and making the Father a treacherous back-stabber by their position and doctrine. Christianity actually the followers of Paul. 2000 years ago, the Roman and Greek Empire with its culture and mythological and pagan roots already held the beliefs such as "God coming down in human form". So after witnessing just a single "miracle" from Paul the deceiver they were conforming to their already held beliefs. No wonder when they heard of this guy Jesus with all the stories of his miracles, it was very easy for them to take him as "Son of God" (and this concept later on developed in to taking him as God) as this already went hand in hand with their pagan and mythological belief system. Little wonder that those times and those places and people also had "Triads" and ancient "Trinities" and "God" in threes and stuff. Acts 14:11 When the crowd saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, "THE GODS HAVE COME DOWN to us IN HUMAN FORM!" *********** Then of course the abomination of the alleged human "sacrifice" of Jesus Christ making the Most Merciful in to some human blood thirsty vampire. Going against the very teachings of the true Prophets and that includes Jesus Christ. ******** Unfortunately, it was the Pauline Christianity and Pauline doctrines, blended with pagan doctrine and backed up by the powerful Empire that eventually won out over the years and wiped out the Jewish Christianity of radical monotheism.
Aaaah man.. so glad you did a video on the Dead Sea scrolls! I was totally waiting for this and I totally agree... this stuff is awesome! It’s insane that we can actually read stuff that was written over 2000 years ago (not that I can actually read Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic😅) and learn directly from the people who lived during that time🤯
that tradition of putting information and stuff from a certain period of time in a very secure container and into a rocky place so that they can be discovered in the future is kept in the construction of traditional catholic churches, you have these metal containers with a bunch of important things from the present time that are put inside the first stone of the building. The traditional catholic church is a legit time machine in so many ways.
Really great overview. I agree with you that the Dead Sea scrolls are super interesting. I was lucky enough to go see the Dead Sea scrolls when they were in a traveling museum exhibit in Denver a few years ago, and it really peaked my interest. Can’t wait for the next video about the Dead Sea Scrolls!!
One of my favorite RUclips channels of all time, I always look forward to seeing a new video of yours in my feed. I wish I had the spare money to give on Patreon -- God bless you
So good Matt! Life has ramped up again (I'm teaching full time and mothering fuller-time) so I super appreciate the ten minutes or it would have to wait until vacation time! It's like a nourishing cup of intellectual soup that fills me up without the time investment if a full meal.
I love your passion for the scriptures Matt. I like the 10 min dives (or thereabouts) that you do. Great for my limited attention span! I have also been impressed with your willingness to learn about other Christian denominations, something which many denominations discourage. 1 Thessalonians 5:21 examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good (NASV) You are doing that and in a manner that is easily understood for someone like myself who is rediscovering and building anew my relationship with Christ. God bless you and your ministry Matt.
awesome work Matt - thank you for your time that you put into collating the info - your easy to understand and present the info clear - I enjoy how you put the history in as well - between you, koinonia house, behold israel and jd faraq - there are a few others as well but this could end up to long and you have a heap of other messages here to get through lol :)
Im personally not very religious, but this guy presents the history of it in such an interesting and often funny way. I really enjoy this content anyways.
There’s a difference between what people feel like the scrolls are over what they actually represent, and what they actually meant by the context all those years ago.
I had an opportunity to view the Dead Sea Scrolls when they were touring through Seattle back in... 2007? 2006? Anyway, it was quite memorable, and absolutely a highlight of my life. Most of the scrolls were kept in a darkened room, and they would only be lit for a few seconds at a time to help preserve them, but there was a copper one that didn't have that problem, so it was out in the open near the beginning of the exhibit. I'm super interested to see how you tackle these.
Excited about this series. I've always been casually interested in the Dead Sea Scrolls, but I've never actually done any research into them, so I'm along for the ride while you teach me stuff :D
Where do you think the Dead Sea scrolls fit in with the Christian canon? Should we consider adjusting the Canon to account for new discoveries? Or is there a reason we did not have the Dead Sea scrolls at the time the Canon was being solidified?
Well, these extra books are interesting but they don't have a place in The Bible, and I say that because they sometimes contradict Scripture or outright say things that are wrong.
Jubilees and Enoch were some of the most common findings there as well. You know the books that were in the Bible but the Pharisees did everything they could to remove them. Also The essenes did not dwell in Qumran. This was the area that John the Baptist lived his life not the essenes.
Jubilees and 1-3 Enoch where never in The Bible to begin with, they contradict Scripture and where never Accepted as Cannon by the majority, books like 1 Enoch,Jubilees,Book of Noah & others where only read out of Theological Interest.
@@mrmcface713 so can you explain why they were found in the Dead Sea scrolls? Along with all the other Old Testament books of the Bible? And do you want to explain why they are in the Ethiopian Bible?
Matt love what you do about the only thing I disagree with you in this video is that I don't believe it was found because of a fluke, that was most definitely the Hand of God. But keep up the great work.
Love that you're talking about this! Really looking forward to part two. I wonder if you've thought about doing something similar with the Nag Hammadi Library?
This is awesome. I had the chance of seeing the Dead Sea Scrolls when they came to the U.S. and were at a museum near me almost 10 years ago. Just the previous spring we had learned about the different Jewish sects in our Scripture class, and some of the art that was in the exhibit were pieces we had seen in our art history class that very week - super cool. On another note, will the last bit of your conversation with Dr. Holmes be up anytime soon? I'm eagerly awaiting that (Dr. Holmes is one of the main reasons I made it through college - absolutely love him).
What book of the Dead Sea scrolls do you have here? Im trying to find a copy of them and want to make sure I buy the right one. Absolutely love your work
So as a person just looking into all of this magnificent story I feel like I have to try and start from the beginning, through till the end, but than after "kind of" having the whole story, go through the book of enoch and the dead sea scrolls as more missed stories and info. It's like the original star wars series but this is all history. That's a really bad joke but it's just what it reminds me of. Why was all of this hidden? Why scattered about the earth? So much hidden from all of us, still today. Lots of lies and sleght of hand at and to the most pristine levels. This last little part makes perfect sense to me from the very little that I have learned.
I remember reading about the scrolls in a focus on the family magazine when I was a kid, really awesome stuff. Are the metal scrolls you mentioned the Copper scrolls?
Remember in the eighties when haters tried saying that the Bible couldn't be right because it's so old and would've been mis translated over and over etc,... Ya they're wrong!
Pliny the Elder, actually identified the Essen community as being north of Ein-Gedi " above the cliffs" and arecelogist have identified the site! Ein-Gedi is approximately 30 kilometers south of Qumron. Secondly, the Essens were gnostic and it would be unlikely they would have kept 67 books of the bible which was the majority of manuscripts that were found in Qumron. Who did live in Qumron at that time was John the Baptist who was preaching and baptizing and was known as the " Teacher of Righteousness " John the Baptist was the son of a levite priest who served in the Temple and his mother was of the lineage of King David. So most likely the Q- manuscripts are not of the Essens but the library's of John the Baptist who's followers hid his library after he was beheaded. It should also be noted that the community at Qumron was known for producing two products, parchment for writing manuscripts and Temple insence. The Essens would not have use for insence and no gnostic manuscripts were found in Qumron.
As an eight year old I did not understand the Dead Sea Scrolls were. I am glad I got to see them in a museum still, even if I didn't know the significance of it.
I got a catalog really it was a book of the Dead Sea Scrolls at the library where I'm from last year and talking about Fasinating it made my head swim it only had about a million pages😮 I went through my Bible read this wrote down and I had to keep taking it back out of the library so 3 months I have 4 books of what I wrote down study I came to the conclusion my brain was swimming to fast so I stopped getting the book and starting going through the Bible with what I had its awesome ✌❤
What are some of the pieces of evidence you've heard? For example, does the geography of where John was doing his baptizing match up in close proximity to the community at Qumran? Or were their diets/lifestyles similar, in terms of subsistence gathering and primitive clothing?
Noel Kosobucki : Both John and Yeshua went into the protection of the Essene Brotherhood when Herod decreed the killing of all male children aged two and younger. You might wish to read the messiah's uncorrupted teachings found in the Essene Humane Gospel of the Christ, it's quite an eye opener. .
I’m confused about the bookcases. Are they back? It looks like it might be a green screen background. I’ve missed them. Just don’t want to rejoice prematurely.
Keep this content coming, Matt! The implications of the existence of the dead sea scrolls should humble skeptics of the Bible if they have a modicum of sincere analysis. As a straightforward thinker, it could have possibly been the revelation convincing me of the Bibles claims before I was a Christian.
Hey Matt, I got into a recent quarrel with one of my friends about random political convictions, and she said, "The American Conservatives paid the German translators to change 'arsenoikotai' from 'man who lie with boy' to man to lie with man' in Leviticus and 1 Corinthians." I know that's not the case because Josephus spoke wrote that the cultural conviction of the Jews was that is was not right for man to lie with man in Josephus's book against Apion II under chapter 25. I love homosexuals but this is a matter of the integrity of the church and the inerrancy of Scripture. The source she is referring to came from United Methodist Insight, so it seems to be a denominational thing. I was wondering if you could offer insight into the translation of that word by replying or making a video about what you find. Best of regards, I love your content, eyes wide open faith is the way to go, keep it up.
2:54 The Alexandrian conquest in the 4th century *BCE*...we should all already know that his conquest happened before Christ came on the scene, but I thought I'd point that out since it is an important bit to note.
Wow. This is fasinating. Could the dead sea scrolls be thought of as a lost part of the Bible? I look forward to seeing the video coming next. Thanks!!
Probably not; there's plenty of documentary evidence from the early Christian period to show that the bulk of the books found in the Dead Sea scroll collection were well known at the time.
...a metalic scroll? A treasure hunt, you say? Wow, interesting. I always heard that people didn't write on metal scrolls/tablets/plates. However, they did find the Darius gold plates as well...hmm...interdasting.
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Thank you!
@UC99f-Nqscfq79T5b53NaVMQ It really depends on what kind of books you want to read. For almost all Christians, I suggest C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity. I also suggest the Catechism of the Council of Trent, the Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas, Faith of our Fathers by Cardinal Gibbons. I am not a fan of books written in the last 50 years, but if I had to choose something, it would be Probes: Deep Sea Diving into Saint John's Gospel by Peter Kreeft, Surprised by Truth by Patrick Madrid, or anything by Scott Hahn. And of course, The NASB Catholic Study Bible. I've read my Bible 8 times front to back and probably over 15 times total. Memorize the Gospel of John. Learn how the early Church Fathers and the early Christians practiced their faith. The fundaments of what is means to be a Christian is to have the Eucharist (celebrate the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass) and be Baptized. This was never questioned by any of the early Christians or by anyone for over 1100 years after Christ.
I’m not
*The original 73 books Bible is the correct Bible* 📖
Where did you learn all this biblical history? It’s all fascinating to me and I’d love to find a resource to teach my kids.
You know, when The Ten Minute Bible Hour is really close to ten minutes, you become very concise, very precise and very absorbable. This was the best explanation of the Dead Sea Scrolls I've ever heard, and I have heard them droned-on about way too many times. Well done.
true, but I really like more information when I learn about Bible's stuff. Especially when there's a good narrator like him. It'd be a pity ti limit him to 10m ahah
Thanks buddy very fascinating
Truly amazing how God unveils more and more to us just setting it all in concrete! We have NO excuses God has given us every opportunity to be saved! Praise Jesus our Lord!!!
There is nothing to be saved from their are no monsters under the bed.
Where is God right now please show me
there is no god.
@@theshuriken the Holy spirit proves God is real in the name of jesus christ look at the state of the world its getting worse every year.
I think you need to learn more about the dead sea scrolls if you are a follower of jesus
When I went to Israel last winter, I had the amazing opportunity to see some of the Dead Sea Scrolls and boy was it amazing. Thanks Matt for the amazing video!
Must have been amazing to see the original copies of the 1st and 2nd books of Adam and Eve ...... and Enoch and Jubilees etc. 1000yrs old !
Did they say why these Hebrew books were not included in the Jewish Old Testament ?
I love that Papyrus is written the Papyrus font.
Same here, that old ugly font that used to be cool a while ago :D
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You have inspired me into reading the bible, I started binge watching your content 2 weeks ago, therefor I wanted to say thank You for all your hard work and keep up making amazing videos that edcuate and change peoples lives.
I love it Pawel! I hope the trip through the Bible is meaningful and points you toward something very real and true.
Amen and God Bless dude, stay strong in faith!
It's good you read the bible, you'll soon realise it's a croc of..
I had just yesterday said that I want to look more into the Dead Sea Scrolls. Perfect timing, Matt.
God’s perfect timing! Amen and God Bless dude!
Mom always said, "Never play ball in the cave."
She sure did, and she's a great mom. Wish I'd listened to her...
@@MattWhitmanTMBH - That was a Brady Bunch quote. : )
I love how Matt just rolls by “metal inscribed scrolls” and “treasure hunt” like it’s no big deal. 🤔😳😬
Lol, we'll dig deeper on that one in the next video and much deeper in an upcoming No Dumb Questions.
You got my attention! And knowing that it's going to be an NDQ episode means that it's going to be a crazy deep dive!
After the Mobile Bay episode, it's your turn in your wheelhouse anyways!
People have been trying to figure that out for some time now but no one has been able to find where the treasure is - actually multiple locations are mentioned.
Hi Matt, just beginning my walk with God and I have so much I want to understand. Most of my life I’ve maintained an agnostic position without really digging into all the information. My brother, who is a Christian, has helped me so much to understand the word and I too am fascinated by the Dead Sea scrolls. Thanks for a great intro and look forward to hearing more from you about TDSS🙏
Congrats on your walk. I am TRULY excited for you. I love this and so many things about this. The more you learn about history and the time and the culture, the more that I have found it fascinating, reconfirming and AWESOME. And by awesome, I mean in the real sense of the word in that it fills me with awe.
When I heard the intro start playing at 0:39 I legitametly thought I was playing the podcast somewhere in the background by accident 😂. Lovely music.
Jeff says thanks!
Same here!
@@MattWhitmanTMBH He sure does!
Hurry! Hurry! I can hardly wait for the next show about the Dead Sea Scrolls. Thanks much. Diane in NC
I won't make you wait long Diane. The next one's a blast.
@@MattWhitmanTMBH I, too, am completely fascinated by the Dead Sea Scrolls. For me they rank right up there with studying Revelation. Diane in NC
finally one video that's actually almost 10 minutes
I was taken so off guard when it ended because it was so uncharacteristically short for his videos haha
How Interesting that Israel is became a nation in 1948
The dead sea scrolls were found in 1947.
The Lords words to Daniel
Daniel 12:4
But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
Sorry but Israel is not a nation
Paul makes clear that a Jew is not a Jew outwardly and not all Israel is Israel
Israel is Gods chosen people made up Jew AND Gentile
Dont go down the dark pit of zionism
Don’t you people know that Jews hate Christians? Look at what they say about Jesus in their talmud.
@@eagleclaw1179 that was a teaching in the book of hebrews to show that there is a new covanent for jews to follow and has nothing to do with the 1948 fig tree prophesy....that daily animal sacrifices...circumcission ...was gone away forever...with JESUS CHRIST...YASHUA...YWHW...being the lamb of life that the passsover was about eternal life ..circumcission was replaced by water baptism...
Its a shame they don't use them then isn't it !
Jews use just 24 books and Christians count the same 24 as 39.
They would all be a lot wiser if the read the much older DSS rather than the Jewish OT based on the Masoretic Text, corrupted 5x and written 600-800ad, whereas the DSS go back to 500bc and even older if the ones we have today are re-writes of even older scrolls. Go read I say !
Matt, please consider recording a dialog with Jimmy Akin. He's spoken a lot about this topic too and it would be fascinating to hear the two of you talk.
Great idea!
Not only a 2300 year old story but a 2300 year old story that is THE SAME as our Bible today - despite the number of translations and interpretations....WOW!
With some notable differences: for one, the Book of Enoch was found among the Dead Sea scrolls.
Mmm maybe not the same. But close. There are a few mistranslations if you might be interested in hearing. I can offer any proof I have to offer and you can draw your conclusions :)
That's if we are translating it properly
@@hillierutopia4554 Levi’s sons names for 1. What else u got lol
Really interesting - love your passion for this!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I second that motion.
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I’m genuinely honored by what you said. Thank you.
Just unsubscribe your Patreon to this page. Use the money to eat..this guy is a RUclipsr, he can go get a regular job like the rest of us. Take care of your family.
@DJ Speedy Beats you obviously have very little idea of how much work it actually takes to produce the content he is producing. Thanks for your input though, however I've not put my family at any risk with the small amount I put aside to support work such as Matt's that I find truly valuable to the body of Christ and a good use of the gifts God had given him. There's plenty of other things I can stop buying in order to afford the $20 that goes here monthly.
This topic is absolutely fascinating! I knew about Qumran and the Essenes, but I didn’t know much more. Thank you for this overview!
I found out the hard way, that if papyrus is not stored properly, it can disintegrate very quickly. Another reason why vellum and parchment were preferred. I had made a copy of a portion of one of the gospels in Greek, on papyrus, and after I had used them set them on top of a bookcase. They fell down behind it, and stayed there until I moved. When I moved the bookcase, all that was left was parts of two pages. Badly decomposed.
Yikes. Fragile stuff.
Matt...great to see you take up the Dead Sea Scrolls. An interesting (to me anyway) sidenote: In 1957 I was in freshman Old Testament History at Trinity University, San Antonio. One text book, published two or three years earlier, took passing notice of the Scrolls, saying that parchment scrolls found recently near the Dead Sea seemed to offer an "interesting corroboration" of biblical writings but that mire study was needed. That has always seemed to be an overly cautious way to approach anything as profound as the Dead Sea Scrolls. But I suppose that was the safest way to introduce a significant event of such magnitude and hang on to your research grants at the same time. Great topic!!!
I’ve been sliding away from religion for a while now. Each day, I find more issues with the theology, doctrines, and practices of each religion. I still go to church, but don’t believe what I hear. As I move further away, I become more and more critical of organized religion. Your videos, however, are a different story. I quite like them, and will continue being a fan of yours. Thank you for your genuineness, effort, and diligence.
-CS
I hear u dude, but what I've come realize is that I usually stop praying and trying to be intentional with the way I spend my time whenever I start pulling away from Christianity. If I ever have an issue with christianity its mostly with people being hypocrites or being ignorant about stuff. But, I always have to remind myself that I'm just as bad as the next guy and I need to work on myself and my relationship with God before I begin to judge others.
As for the doctrine/theology itself I'm orthodox christian and I honestly dont know that much about orthodoxy. I don't think every part of orthodoxy is perfect but I do believe its the best way to live as a christian (just because all the traditional fasts help keep you spiritually strong, and other stuff I find in orthodoxy that isn't in Catholicism or protestants) In the end, when I'm really struggling I try to block out other people and just decide to study the scriptures myself. The hardest thing I've had to do is to consider I might be wrong about christianity as a whole, but I realized that it shouldn't be the scariest thing because if Christianity is wrong then I've been believing a lie. But if it's true the dumbest thing I could do is to leave it, especially since I wouldn't have an excuse.
Just curious what issues do you find with the theology/doctrines/practices of each religion.
Dont slide away from jesus hes not a religion, hes a way of life
@Dunking Astronaut From Uranus
LORD Jesus felt a similar way.
You’re not too far off from the kingdom of Heaven.
*Matthew 23:1-13*
“1Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, 2Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: 3All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. 4For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. 5But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, 6And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, 7And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi. 8But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. 9And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. 10Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ. 11But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant. 12And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
13But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.”
@@yabesira7351 Salam / Peace. I'm a Muslim.
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Believers in God as a SINGLE PERSON (God the Father) were at the beginning of the third century still forming THE LARGE MAJORITY.
(Ency. Britannica; 11th Ed; Vol 23; p. 963).
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As you can see, slowly but surely, the false teachers over the centuries prevailed and wiped out those on the truth. The 3 in 1 falsehood called the Trinity became the Orthodoxy.
@@yabesira7351 Jesus said and foretold COMMANDED by THE ONLY TRUE GOD - THE FATHER:
BY THE FRUITS YE SHALL KNOW THEM.
Radical Monotheism exactly like the Jewish Prophets / Jews to believe in a uniquely ONE GOD - without any partners or equals or like a three in one falsehood called the Trinity - plus believing in the Messiah Jesus the Prophet sent by God, and the essential consistency with his doctrine - the Muslim.
The very words that the Father - THE ONLY TRUE GOD - COMMANDED Jesus Christ to say. The doctrine of THE ONLY TRUE GOD that HE COMMANDED Jesus Christ to give.
The testimony of Jesus Christ on the Father:
- The Only True God (John 17:3)
- The Only One Who Knows The Hour (Mark 13:32)
- Greater than I (John 14:28)
- Greater than all (John 10:29)
- My God and Your God (John 20:17)
The doctrine of Jesus Christ =
The doctrine of a Muslim.
(Of course the term Father in the Jewish context. A figure of speech for their times. NOT that God has a literal Son. God has got Son by the Ton in the Bible.)
Defenders of the true honor and status of Jesus Christ against lies and abominations which includes the Crucifixion.
VERSUS
Christianity more like the Greek and Roman doctrines and the pagan doctrines like "God" coming down in human form and human / blood sacrifice that pagans had going hand in hand with Paul's doctrines of easy fake salvation with blood of an innocent, making the Merciful God in to a blood thirsty vampire. The same people making Jesus Christ UNRIGHTEOUS by their position (believing in the fiction called Crucifixion) and making the Father a treacherous back-stabber by their position and doctrine. Christianity actually the followers of Paul.
2000 years ago, the Roman and Greek Empire with its culture and mythological and pagan roots already held the beliefs such as "God coming down in human form". So after witnessing just a single "miracle" from Paul the deceiver they were conforming to their already held beliefs. No wonder when they heard of this guy Jesus with all the stories of his miracles, it was very easy for them to take him as "Son of God" (and this concept later on developed in to taking him as God) as this already went hand in hand with their pagan and mythological belief system. Little wonder that those times and those places and people also had "Triads" and ancient "Trinities" and "God" in threes and stuff.
Acts 14:11
When the crowd saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, "THE GODS HAVE COME DOWN to us IN HUMAN FORM!"
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Then of course the abomination of the alleged human "sacrifice" of Jesus Christ making the Most Merciful in to some human blood thirsty vampire. Going against the very teachings of the true Prophets and that includes Jesus Christ.
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Unfortunately, it was the Pauline Christianity and Pauline doctrines, blended with pagan doctrine and backed up by the powerful Empire that eventually won out over the years and wiped out the Jewish Christianity of radical monotheism.
I am VERY excited for this series! Great vid, Matt!
Aaaah man.. so glad you did a video on the Dead Sea scrolls! I was totally waiting for this and I totally agree... this stuff is awesome! It’s insane that we can actually read stuff that was written over 2000 years ago (not that I can actually read Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic😅) and learn directly from the people who lived during that time🤯
that tradition of putting information and stuff from a certain period of time in a very secure container and into a rocky place so that they can be discovered in the future is kept in the construction of traditional catholic churches, you have these metal containers with a bunch of important things from the present time that are put inside the first stone of the building. The traditional catholic church is a legit time machine in so many ways.
Really great overview. I agree with you that the Dead Sea scrolls are super interesting. I was lucky enough to go see the Dead Sea scrolls when they were in a traveling museum exhibit in Denver a few years ago, and it really peaked my interest. Can’t wait for the next video about the Dead Sea Scrolls!!
John Bergsma wrote a book called Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls, in which he discusses the Essenes. Good stuff!
Verenice Gonzalez yes meet him great guy. Has an interesting faith journey too.
Agreed. Very good book
One of my favorite RUclips channels of all time, I always look forward to seeing a new video of yours in my feed. I wish I had the spare money to give on Patreon -- God bless you
It’s all good amigo; thanks for the encouragement. I’m genuinely honored!
So good Matt! Life has ramped up again (I'm teaching full time and mothering fuller-time) so I super appreciate the ten minutes or it would have to wait until vacation time! It's like a nourishing cup of intellectual soup that fills me up without the time investment if a full meal.
Not a fluke God hand was on the finding
He likes humble shepherds unveiling his revelation.
I love your passion for the scriptures Matt. I like the 10 min dives (or thereabouts) that you do. Great for my limited attention span! I have also been impressed with your willingness to learn about other Christian denominations, something which many denominations discourage. 1 Thessalonians 5:21 examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good (NASV) You are doing that and in a manner that is easily understood for someone like myself who is rediscovering and building anew my relationship with Christ. God bless you and your ministry Matt.
Glad you're jumping into this topic!
This is soooooo interesting! I can't wait for the next video. This stuff is really fascinating.
Great Video, Matt! Love your enthusiasm here. Looking forward to getting into the next one about the scrolls! 📜
this is so fascinating! looking forward to your next video!
I imagine that when the kids found them they actually ran away from Indiana Jones yelling
"THAT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM!!"
awesome work Matt - thank you for your time that you put into collating the info - your easy to understand and present the info clear - I enjoy how you put the history in as well - between you, koinonia house, behold israel and jd faraq - there are a few others as well but this could end up to long and you have a heap of other messages here to get through lol :)
Dead Sea scrolls- independently tells the Holy Bible stories! The Bible is true....
They aren’t at all separate. The Bible is just a reprint of the scrolls. The scrolls ARE the Bible. Read Isaiah 53.
@@garrythomas492 yea ofcourse
The Dead Sea scrolls in now way whatsoever confirm the veracity of the bible.
Are you for real or sarcastic? Can't tell
Whichever way you decide the whole thing is still manmade. There is no god.
The best video you´ve ever made. You should make a video about Josephus that would be awesome!
Im personally not very religious, but this guy presents the history of it in such an interesting and often funny way. I really enjoy this content anyways.
Thanks!
There’s a difference between what people feel like the scrolls are over what they actually represent, and what they actually meant by the context all those years ago.
here because evangelion
i got mad because i couldn't find the next video in your playlist.. then saw you just uploaded this 😂
Awesome, looking forward to the next one
Feeling very grateful to come across your channel. You’ve got a new subscriber. Looking forward to your next video. God bless!
I had an opportunity to view the Dead Sea Scrolls when they were touring through Seattle back in... 2007? 2006? Anyway, it was quite memorable, and absolutely a highlight of my life. Most of the scrolls were kept in a darkened room, and they would only be lit for a few seconds at a time to help preserve them, but there was a copper one that didn't have that problem, so it was out in the open near the beginning of the exhibit.
I'm super interested to see how you tackle these.
Take a look at history with an open mind...we might just confirm a few things huh? God Bless Matt!
Yessss. ❤ ive been waiting for this!!!
So great! Appreciate your channel Matt. Thanks.
Excited about this series. I've always been casually interested in the Dead Sea Scrolls, but I've never actually done any research into them, so I'm along for the ride while you teach me stuff :D
Where do you think the Dead Sea scrolls fit in with the Christian canon? Should we consider adjusting the Canon to account for new discoveries? Or is there a reason we did not have the Dead Sea scrolls at the time the Canon was being solidified?
Well, these extra books are interesting but they don't have a place in The Bible, and I say that because they sometimes contradict Scripture or outright say things that are wrong.
Jubilees and Enoch were some of the most common findings there as well. You know the books that were in the Bible but the Pharisees did everything they could to remove them. Also The essenes did not dwell in Qumran. This was the area that John the Baptist lived his life not the essenes.
Jubilees and 1-3 Enoch where never in The Bible to begin with, they contradict Scripture and where never Accepted as Cannon by the majority, books like 1 Enoch,Jubilees,Book of Noah & others where only read out of Theological Interest.
@@mrmcface713 so can you explain why they were found in the Dead Sea scrolls? Along with all the other Old Testament books of the Bible?
And do you want to explain why they are in the Ethiopian Bible?
Matt love what you do about the only thing I disagree with you in this video is that I don't believe it was found because of a fluke, that was most definitely the Hand of God. But keep up the great work.
i love your videos because of the content that you deliver.
Love that you're talking about this! Really looking forward to part two. I wonder if you've thought about doing something similar with the Nag Hammadi Library?
I will!
This is awesome. I had the chance of seeing the Dead Sea Scrolls when they came to the U.S. and were at a museum near me almost 10 years ago. Just the previous spring we had learned about the different Jewish sects in our Scripture class, and some of the art that was in the exhibit were pieces we had seen in our art history class that very week - super cool.
On another note, will the last bit of your conversation with Dr. Holmes be up anytime soon? I'm eagerly awaiting that (Dr. Holmes is one of the main reasons I made it through college - absolutely love him).
That'd be so cool to be someone who gets to investigate all this stuff firsthand.
LOVED THIS VIDEO! Thanks!👌🤗
What book of the Dead Sea scrolls do you have here? Im trying to find a copy of them and want to make sure I buy the right one. Absolutely love your work
So as a person just looking into all of this magnificent story I feel like I have to try and start from the beginning, through till the end, but than after "kind of" having the whole story, go through the book of enoch and the dead sea scrolls as more missed stories and info.
It's like the original star wars series but this is all history. That's a really bad joke but it's just what it reminds me of.
Why was all of this hidden? Why scattered about the earth? So much hidden from all of us, still today. Lots of lies and sleght of hand at and to the most pristine levels. This last little part makes perfect sense to me from the very little that I have learned.
I read that the excerpts from the Bible have recently been found to be fake? Could you talk about that and what you think? Love the show!
I remember reading about the scrolls in a focus on the family magazine when I was a kid, really awesome stuff. Are the metal scrolls you mentioned the Copper scrolls?
Remember in the eighties when haters tried saying that the Bible couldn't be right because it's so old and would've been mis translated over and over etc,... Ya they're wrong!
Cool, thanks. I am excited for you next video.
Pliny the Elder, actually identified the Essen community as being north of Ein-Gedi " above the cliffs" and arecelogist have identified the site! Ein-Gedi is approximately 30 kilometers south of Qumron. Secondly, the Essens were gnostic and it would be unlikely they would have kept 67 books of the bible which was the majority of manuscripts that were found in Qumron. Who did live in Qumron at that time was John the Baptist who was preaching and baptizing and was known as the " Teacher of Righteousness " John the Baptist was the son of a levite priest who served in the Temple and his mother was of the lineage of King David. So most likely the Q- manuscripts are not of the Essens but the library's of John the Baptist who's followers hid his library after he was beheaded. It should also be noted that the community at Qumron was known for producing two products, parchment for writing manuscripts and Temple insence. The Essens would not have use for insence and no gnostic manuscripts were found in Qumron.
As an eight year old I did not understand the Dead Sea Scrolls were. I am glad I got to see them in a museum still, even if I didn't know the significance of it.
Great video, thanks for it
Thanks for your enthusiasm brilliant stuff
Huh! This was a real interesting watch, thank u!!
I got a catalog really it was a book of the Dead Sea Scrolls at the library where I'm from last year and talking about Fasinating it made my head swim it only had about a million pages😮 I went through my Bible read this wrote down and I had to keep taking it back out of the library so 3 months I have 4 books of what I wrote down study I came to the conclusion my brain was swimming to fast so I stopped getting the book and starting going through the Bible with what I had its awesome ✌❤
I've heard theories that John the Bapist was a member of that community. Would you care to give an opinion?
What are some of the pieces of evidence you've heard? For example, does the geography of where John was doing his baptizing match up in close proximity to the community at Qumran? Or were their diets/lifestyles similar, in terms of subsistence gathering and primitive clothing?
Noel Kosobucki not only that but the gospel of John and Christ passion was better understood through Essenes lens.
@@tintinismybelgian in all fairness it was a few years ago so I can not exactly remember what the specifics were or even who said it.
Noel Kosobucki : Both John and Yeshua went into the protection of the Essene Brotherhood when Herod decreed the killing of all male children aged two and younger.
You might wish to read the messiah's uncorrupted teachings found in the Essene Humane Gospel of the Christ, it's quite an eye opener.
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I've been waiting for 3 hours when does this start?
I am posting this on my Catholic RUclipsrs Community facebook page! This is very lively and interesting!
I’m confused about the bookcases. Are they back? It looks like it might be a green screen background. I’ve missed them. Just don’t want to rejoice prematurely.
Those are real.
Love the Papyrus font used @ 3:23
Jesus is lord!❤️✝️
Normal people: scrolls relating to the bible
Eva fans: ah yes the 5th angle shall come
Thanks for the explanation
I cant wait for the next episode
May you make a video where you comment more about the recent controversies surrounding the scrolls?
Excited to see what this is about
Keep this content coming, Matt! The implications of the existence of the dead sea scrolls should humble skeptics of the Bible if they have a modicum of sincere analysis. As a straightforward thinker, it could have possibly been the revelation convincing me of the Bibles claims before I was a Christian.
Please explain to me how the scrolls prove any if the ridiculous nonsense thays written in the bible.
What are writings of 'the Enlightened Ones' found in the Dead Sea scrolls?
They found them in the water?
Dude great video!
Hey Matt, I got into a recent quarrel with one of my friends about random political convictions, and she said, "The American Conservatives paid the German translators to change 'arsenoikotai' from 'man who lie with boy' to man to lie with man' in Leviticus and 1 Corinthians." I know that's not the case because Josephus spoke wrote that the cultural conviction of the Jews was that is was not right for man to lie with man in Josephus's book against Apion II under chapter 25. I love homosexuals but this is a matter of the integrity of the church and the inerrancy of Scripture. The source she is referring to came from United Methodist Insight, so it seems to be a denominational thing. I was wondering if you could offer insight into the translation of that word by replying or making a video about what you find. Best of regards, I love your content, eyes wide open faith is the way to go, keep it up.
I got a lot to say on this later.
For now, I love how God preserved his word in ‘salt’ for us.
Matt, how do you still feel about Enoch?
2:27 He's thinking how do destroy them, lol
Lol
This is fascinating!
2:54 The Alexandrian conquest in the 4th century *BCE*...we should all already know that his conquest happened before Christ came on the scene, but I thought I'd point that out since it is an important bit to note.
Wow. This is fasinating. Could the dead sea scrolls be thought of as a lost part of the Bible? I look forward to seeing the video coming next. Thanks!!
Probably not; there's plenty of documentary evidence from the early Christian period to show that the bulk of the books found in the Dead Sea scroll collection were well known at the time.
Ask Destin what sheep(and goats) do.....
Paul refers to scrolls in 2 Corinthians 4
Where's cave number 3?
...a metalic scroll? A treasure hunt, you say? Wow, interesting. I always heard that people didn't write on metal scrolls/tablets/plates. However, they did find the Darius gold plates as well...hmm...interdasting.
I agree strongly fascinating
Thank you
Thank you!!
What was is the book he referred to?
Did you hear about the seeds they found with the Dead Sea scrolls