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John Marco Allegro - Vatican scholar, head translator of the dead sea scrolls, fluent in Aramaic, claimed that Jesus was a Magic Mushroom

 
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Its the same yalls parents did to you. Dont do drugs ! And then you went right out and did them. Aint nothin changed. History repeats itself. And anyone who says a “god” cant exist within a psychedelic experience/environment hasnt done a big enough dose
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another kook video
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it's important to realize Allegro joined the dead sea scroll project with an agenda.

by the time he was involved he had already fallen away from faith and was dead set (no pun intended) on coming up with a more esoteric understanding of scripture that conveniently combined social direction and religion.

he was reading his philosophy into scripture not allowing scripture to direct his philosophy.
 Quoting: Bright Side


Kipp Davis, PhD is the foremost North America scholar of the Dead Sea Scrolls. He worked for 25 years both in the Levant as well as in Europe and has been creditors with discovering many forgeries.
Dr. Davis’s research focuses on the transmission and interpretation of scripture in Second Temple Judaism and the issue of manuscript provenance and authentication of fragments in private collections. His publications in these areas include the monograph The Cave 4 Apocryphon of Jeremiah and the Qumran Jeremianic Traditions (Brill, 2014) and the co-edited volume Gleanings from the Caves: Dead Sea Scrolls Artefacts from the Schøyen Collection (Bloomsbury, 2016). His most recent work combines forensic approaches and scribal studies to develop innovative tools for detecting manuscript forgeries.

After 25 years, Dr Davis LEFT CHRISTIANITY. He was raised a Christian and once he was able to compile the entirety of the proof for Jesus he then knew it was a fraud.

Go ahead and look him up. His testimony is on YouTube still.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 86120325


I will - thanks for the suggestion as I know God is real and research doesn't frighten me.

I am particularly interested in scholars who take a mid temple or second temple cultural understanding of biblical interpretation. I will agree this approach is VERY disturbing to the modern western Christian. That said, this approach illuminates scripture and the supernatural war. It does not usuallt take one away from the faith so I'm interested in why Davis would approach it that way.
 Quoting: Bright Side


How can you say it doesn't take one away from the faith? I've been a lifelong Christian and I've just recently started doing a history deep dive into scholarly aspects of the history around the times of Jesus. If you take away the virgin birth, the resurrection and the divinity of Christ, what is left of the faith? Hebrew men, especially rabbis, of that age and time would have been obligated to marry and have children yet we are taught that Jesus never did.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 85955522


A second temple outlook of scripture illuminates the very real supernatural war that takes place then and now. Modern western Christianity looks at spiritual war as a God vs Satan thing when the reality is there is an entire council of "elders" some good some fallen and still just one Triune Godhead who created them. The Greeks Romans Babylonians etc chose to express this as a pantheon but that's really top simplistic.

In order to really get it you'll have to understand the total depravity of man and also these fallen beings and their offspring the nephilim. The entirety of their purpose has been to distort and displace God and the reality of His existence.

Once you understand your enemy, his motives and his methods it should enlighten your faith not take it away.

Regarding virgin birth - don't overthink it or catholicize it. Only neccessary for the child to be supernaturally conceived, not perpetual virginity. Once you submit to the supernatural conception the divinity is easy.

As for the resurrection that is indeed the cornerstone of our faith. It was inherently important to the rulers of both the temple and Roman society to do everything they could to stamp out these claims and yet they couldn't.

I think you're having a crisis of faith because you are trying to make your new discoveries fit your old narrative.

Maybe it's the narrative that needs reconsidering, not Jesus.
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THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

IS THE WHORE OF BABYLON

WHO HAS TWISTED AND DISTORTED

WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS

INTO THE WORLD AKA SATANS KINGDOM

PROOF

WHY HAS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HAS GREAT WEALTH

ALL FOR THEMSELVES

THE FATHER IN HEAVEN SAYS

FEED THE POOR AND HEAL THE SICK

FOR IT IS EASIER FOR A RICH MAN TO GO THROUGH AN EYE OF THE NEDDLE

THAT TO ENTER INTO HEAVEN

THE WHORE OF BABYLON WILL CRY AND WEEP

WHEN ALL THE MONEY CAN NOT BUY OR SELL IN THE DAY OF THE LORD

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS OWNED BY THE SATANIC ROTTENCHILDS
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 85950740


Ok, so what scriptures do you read?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 85956665



THE BIBLE

THAT

IS

THE WORD

THAT

IS

THE TRUTH

THAT

IS

JESUS CHRIST

ABSOLUTE AND PERFECT

THE AUTHOR OF LIFE EVERLASTING

THEREFORE THE BIBLE IS ABSOLUTE AND PERFECT


IMPERFECT MEN TRYING TO PUT THEIR IMPERFECT SPIN ON ABSOLUTE PERFECTION OF THE BIBLE IS THE PROBLEM

ASK THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR THE CORRECT INTERPRETATION OF WHAT YOU JUST HEARD

TRUST NO MAN

INSTEAD TRUST IN THE FATHER IN HEAVEN

AND

NO ONE COMES BEFORE THE FATHER IN HEAVEN BUT THROUGH THE SON

JESUS CHRIST
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 85950740


Worshipping the bible more than the actual teachings of christ is pretty obviously ridiculous and idolatrous, don't you think?
 Quoting: KnowKnot


IT WOULD BE IN A IMPERFECT MIND

BUT

IN THE RENEWED MIND OF JESUS CHRIST

THE BIBLE IS JESUS CHRIST

SINCE

JESUS CHRIST IS THE WORD

AND

THE WORD IS THE BIBLE

IS

JESUS CHRIST



IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD

AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD

AND THE WORD WAS GOD

THE WORD

IS

JESUS CHRIST

ALL PRAISES GO TO JESUS CHRIST

ALL THANKS FOR JESUS CHRIST GO TO THE FATHER IN HEAVEN

IT IS WRITTEN

AMEN
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Its the same yalls parents did to you. Dont do drugs ! And then you went right out and did them. Aint nothin changed. History repeats itself. And anyone who says a “god” cant exist within a psychedelic experience/environment hasnt done a big enough dose
 Quoting: Flyingburritobrother


DRUGS ARE A GATEWAY TO DEMONS AND SATAN

ITS JUST THAT SIMPLE
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They will twist and distort scripture…


unto their own destruction
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Not really.

If we are "made in the image of God", then mushrooms symbolize this in that each individual mushroom is an image of the whole species itself.

In Genesis God creates the heavens and the Earth.
Then in Gen. 3 there is a fall of man. The fall of man
allegory represents separation from God, or the breaking apart from wholeness into individuality. Breaking down
is also known as corruption.

The German word 'Zerfall' means decay. (like how atoms decay into more stable elements over time.) In the communion service the priest breaks the bread. The bread is a round
loaf which is separated and distributed to the faithful.
The breaking of the bread and the eating of it bring us back to wholeness with Christ. The chalice contains the blood of Christ. Each sip of the content wine = a fraction of the whole content. The whole isn't permanently fractured since all the fractions = the whole.

The original is still there in the parts.
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This is fascinating. Would you please expound more on this? I am loving the way you are putting this together. I have some amanita var formosas that i harvested a couple weeks back.
What's going on, and why isn't it coming off?
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Ok, so what scriptures do you read?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 85956665



THE BIBLE

THAT

IS

THE WORD

THAT

IS

THE TRUTH

THAT

IS

JESUS CHRIST

ABSOLUTE AND PERFECT

THE AUTHOR OF LIFE EVERLASTING

THEREFORE THE BIBLE IS ABSOLUTE AND PERFECT


IMPERFECT MEN TRYING TO PUT THEIR IMPERFECT SPIN ON ABSOLUTE PERFECTION OF THE BIBLE IS THE PROBLEM

ASK THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR THE CORRECT INTERPRETATION OF WHAT YOU JUST HEARD

TRUST NO MAN

INSTEAD TRUST IN THE FATHER IN HEAVEN

AND

NO ONE COMES BEFORE THE FATHER IN HEAVEN BUT THROUGH THE SON

JESUS CHRIST
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 85950740


Worshipping the bible more than the actual teachings of christ is pretty obviously ridiculous and idolatrous, don't you think?
 Quoting: KnowKnot


IT WOULD BE IN A IMPERFECT MIND

BUT

IN THE RENEWED MIND OF JESUS CHRIST

THE BIBLE IS JESUS CHRIST

SINCE

JESUS CHRIST IS THE WORD

AND

THE WORD IS THE BIBLE

IS

JESUS CHRIST



IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD

AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD

AND THE WORD WAS GOD

THE WORD

IS

JESUS CHRIST

ALL PRAISES GO TO JESUS CHRIST

ALL THANKS FOR JESUS CHRIST GO TO THE FATHER IN HEAVEN

IT IS WRITTEN

AMEN
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 85950740


The word doesn't mean the bible. It means the logos, the one vibration that is all things.
What's going on, and why isn't it coming off?
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THE BIBLE

THAT

IS

THE WORD

THAT

IS

THE TRUTH

THAT

IS

JESUS CHRIST

ABSOLUTE AND PERFECT

THE AUTHOR OF LIFE EVERLASTING

THEREFORE THE BIBLE IS ABSOLUTE AND PERFECT


IMPERFECT MEN TRYING TO PUT THEIR IMPERFECT SPIN ON ABSOLUTE PERFECTION OF THE BIBLE IS THE PROBLEM

ASK THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR THE CORRECT INTERPRETATION OF WHAT YOU JUST HEARD

TRUST NO MAN

INSTEAD TRUST IN THE FATHER IN HEAVEN

AND

NO ONE COMES BEFORE THE FATHER IN HEAVEN BUT THROUGH THE SON

JESUS CHRIST
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 85950740


Worshipping the bible more than the actual teachings of christ is pretty obviously ridiculous and idolatrous, don't you think?
 Quoting: KnowKnot


IT WOULD BE IN A IMPERFECT MIND

BUT

IN THE RENEWED MIND OF JESUS CHRIST

THE BIBLE IS JESUS CHRIST

SINCE

JESUS CHRIST IS THE WORD

AND

THE WORD IS THE BIBLE

IS

JESUS CHRIST



IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD

AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD

AND THE WORD WAS GOD

THE WORD

IS

JESUS CHRIST

ALL PRAISES GO TO JESUS CHRIST

ALL THANKS FOR JESUS CHRIST GO TO THE FATHER IN HEAVEN

IT IS WRITTEN

AMEN
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 85950740


The word doesn't mean the bible. It means the logos, the one vibration that is all things.
 Quoting: KnowKnot


LOGOS IN GREEK MEANS

A symbol or design that identifies a brand.

NOT

THE WORD

HOWEVER

Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

WHERE IS IT WRITTEN

IN THE BIBLE

AND WHERE DOES THE BIBLE COME FROM

EVERY WORD THAT COMES FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD

WHO IS GOD

THE FATHER IN HEAVEN

AND NO ONE COMES BEFORE HIM

EXCEPT THROUGH THE FATHER IN HEAVEN
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In the earliest versions of the bible used words that meant drinking powered-up/spiced wine at christian religious ceremonies.

The power-ups in wine at that time would typically be psychedelics.
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Worshipping the bible more than the actual teachings of christ is pretty obviously ridiculous and idolatrous, don't you think?
 Quoting: KnowKnot


IT WOULD BE IN A IMPERFECT MIND

BUT

IN THE RENEWED MIND OF JESUS CHRIST

THE BIBLE IS JESUS CHRIST

SINCE

JESUS CHRIST IS THE WORD

AND

THE WORD IS THE BIBLE

IS

JESUS CHRIST



IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD

AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD

AND THE WORD WAS GOD

THE WORD

IS

JESUS CHRIST

ALL PRAISES GO TO JESUS CHRIST

ALL THANKS FOR JESUS CHRIST GO TO THE FATHER IN HEAVEN

IT IS WRITTEN

AMEN
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 85950740


The word doesn't mean the bible. It means the logos, the one vibration that is all things.
 Quoting: KnowKnot


LOGOS IN GREEK MEANS

A symbol or design that identifies a brand.

NOT

THE WORD

HOWEVER

Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

WHERE IS IT WRITTEN

IN THE BIBLE

AND WHERE DOES THE BIBLE COME FROM

EVERY WORD THAT COMES FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD

WHO IS GOD

THE FATHER IN HEAVEN

AND NO ONE COMES BEFORE HIM

EXCEPT THROUGH THE FATHER IN HEAVEN
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 85950740


This world is so far gone...
What's going on, and why isn't it coming off?
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Re: John Marco Allegro - Vatican scholar, head translator of the dead sea scrolls, fluent in Aramaic, claimed that Jesus was a Magic Mushroom
In the earliest versions of the bible used words that meant drinking powered-up/spiced wine at christian religious ceremonies.

The power-ups in wine at that time would typically be psychedelics.
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THERE ARE NO POWER UP’S IN HEAVEN

THERE IS NO RELIGION IN HEAVEN

BUT

THERE IS IN THE WORLD AKA SATANS KINGDOM

WHERE THE ONLY THING THEY KNOW IS GETTING HIGH

TO GET CLOSER TO THE DEMONS AND SATAN
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IT WOULD BE IN A IMPERFECT MIND

BUT

IN THE RENEWED MIND OF JESUS CHRIST

THE BIBLE IS JESUS CHRIST

SINCE

JESUS CHRIST IS THE WORD

AND

THE WORD IS THE BIBLE

IS

JESUS CHRIST



IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD

AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD

AND THE WORD WAS GOD

THE WORD

IS

JESUS CHRIST

ALL PRAISES GO TO JESUS CHRIST

ALL THANKS FOR JESUS CHRIST GO TO THE FATHER IN HEAVEN

IT IS WRITTEN

AMEN
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 85950740


The word doesn't mean the bible. It means the logos, the one vibration that is all things.
 Quoting: KnowKnot


LOGOS IN GREEK MEANS

A symbol or design that identifies a brand.

NOT

THE WORD

HOWEVER

Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

WHERE IS IT WRITTEN

IN THE BIBLE

AND WHERE DOES THE BIBLE COME FROM

EVERY WORD THAT COMES FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD

WHO IS GOD

THE FATHER IN HEAVEN

AND NO ONE COMES BEFORE HIM

EXCEPT THROUGH THE FATHER IN HEAVEN
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 85950740


This world is so far gone...
 Quoting: KnowKnot



AMEN BROTHER

THE WORLD AKA SATANS KINGDOM

WILL BURN AND BE BURNED UP

WHAT IS LEFT

IS

THE NEW EARTH

IT IS WRITTEN

AMEN

ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS POUR THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST OVER THE WORLD

ALL EVIL WILL BURN AND BE BURNED UP
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In the earliest versions of the bible used words that meant drinking powered-up/spiced wine at christian religious ceremonies.

The power-ups in wine at that time would typically be psychedelics.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 85288331


THERE ARE NO POWER UP’S IN HEAVEN

THERE IS NO RELIGION IN HEAVEN

BUT

THERE IS IN THE WORLD AKA SATANS KINGDOM

WHERE THE ONLY THING THEY KNOW IS GETTING HIGH

TO GET CLOSER TO THE DEMONS AND SATAN
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 85950740


You are right and wrong my friend. You can use plants and mushrooms as a shortcut to get spiritual/religious insights and awakenings.

I didn't say you need it, but it could be a helpful tool for some to get in touch with their true self. And it was comon at the time of Jesus.
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Since the Bible we know today comes from there, what scripture do you read?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 85919974


THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

IS THE WHORE OF BABYLON

WHO HAS TWISTED AND DISTORTED

WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS

INTO THE WORLD AKA SATANS KINGDOM

PROOF

WHY HAS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HAS GREAT WEALTH

ALL FOR THEMSELVES

THE FATHER IN HEAVEN SAYS

FEED THE POOR AND HEAL THE SICK

FOR IT IS EASIER FOR A RICH MAN TO GO THROUGH AN EYE OF THE NEDDLE

THAT TO ENTER INTO HEAVEN

THE WHORE OF BABYLON WILL CRY AND WEEP

WHEN ALL THE MONEY CAN NOT BUY OR SELL IN THE DAY OF THE LORD

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS OWNED BY THE SATANIC ROTTENCHILDS
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 85950740


Ok, so what scriptures do you read?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 85956665



THE BIBLE

THAT

IS

THE WORD

THAT

IS

THE TRUTH

THAT

IS

JESUS CHRIST

ABSOLUTE AND PERFECT

THE AUTHOR OF LIFE EVERLASTING

THEREFORE THE BIBLE IS ABSOLUTE AND PERFECT


IMPERFECT MEN TRYING TO PUT THEIR IMPERFECT SPIN ON ABSOLUTE PERFECTION OF THE BIBLE IS THE PROBLEM

ASK THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR THE CORRECT INTERPRETATION OF WHAT YOU JUST HEARD

TRUST NO MAN

INSTEAD TRUST IN THE FATHER IN HEAVEN

AND

NO ONE COMES BEFORE THE FATHER IN HEAVEN BUT THROUGH THE SON

JESUS CHRIST
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 85950740

YOU DO KNOW WHAT INSTITUTION CANONIZED THE BIBLE, RIGHT?!?!
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Kipp Davis, PhD is the foremost North America scholar of the Dead Sea Scrolls. He worked for 25 years both in the Levant as well as in Europe and has been creditors with discovering many forgeries.
Dr. Davis’s research focuses on the transmission and interpretation of scripture in Second Temple Judaism and the issue of manuscript provenance and authentication of fragments in private collections. His publications in these areas include the monograph The Cave 4 Apocryphon of Jeremiah and the Qumran Jeremianic Traditions (Brill, 2014) and the co-edited volume Gleanings from the Caves: Dead Sea Scrolls Artefacts from the Schøyen Collection (Bloomsbury, 2016). His most recent work combines forensic approaches and scribal studies to develop innovative tools for detecting manuscript forgeries.

After 25 years, Dr Davis LEFT CHRISTIANITY. He was raised a Christian and once he was able to compile the entirety of the proof for Jesus he then knew it was a fraud.

Go ahead and look him up. His testimony is on YouTube still.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 86120325


I will - thanks for the suggestion as I know God is real and research doesn't frighten me.

I am particularly interested in scholars who take a mid temple or second temple cultural understanding of biblical interpretation. I will agree this approach is VERY disturbing to the modern western Christian. That said, this approach illuminates scripture and the supernatural war. It does not usuallt take one away from the faith so I'm interested in why Davis would approach it that way.
 Quoting: Bright Side


How can you say it doesn't take one away from the faith? I've been a lifelong Christian and I've just recently started doing a history deep dive into scholarly aspects of the history around the times of Jesus. If you take away the virgin birth, the resurrection and the divinity of Christ, what is left of the faith? Hebrew men, especially rabbis, of that age and time would have been obligated to marry and have children yet we are taught that Jesus never did.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 85955522


A second temple outlook of scripture illuminates the very real supernatural war that takes place then and now. Modern western Christianity looks at spiritual war as a God vs Satan thing when the reality is there is an entire council of "elders" some good some fallen and still just one Triune Godhead who created them. The Greeks Romans Babylonians etc chose to express this as a pantheon but that's really top simplistic.

In order to really get it you'll have to understand the total depravity of man and also these fallen beings and their offspring the nephilim. The entirety of their purpose has been to distort and displace God and the reality of His existence.

Once you understand your enemy, his motives and his methods it should enlighten your faith not take it away.

Regarding virgin birth - don't overthink it or catholicize it. Only neccessary for the child to be supernaturally conceived, not perpetual virginity. Once you submit to the supernatural conception the divinity is easy.

As for the resurrection that is indeed the cornerstone of our faith. It was inherently important to the rulers of both the temple and Roman society to do everything they could to stamp out these claims and yet they couldn't.

I think you're having a crisis of faith because you are trying to make your new discoveries fit your old narrative.

Maybe it's the narrative that needs reconsidering, not Jesus.
 Quoting: Bright Side


There is enough evidence that the Catholic Church altered a scripture and there is evidence that the resurrection didn't happen. So yeah, it is affecting my "faith".
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THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

IS THE WHORE OF BABYLON

WHO HAS TWISTED AND DISTORTED

WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS

INTO THE WORLD AKA SATANS KINGDOM

PROOF

WHY HAS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HAS GREAT WEALTH

ALL FOR THEMSELVES

THE FATHER IN HEAVEN SAYS

FEED THE POOR AND HEAL THE SICK

FOR IT IS EASIER FOR A RICH MAN TO GO THROUGH AN EYE OF THE NEDDLE

THAT TO ENTER INTO HEAVEN

THE WHORE OF BABYLON WILL CRY AND WEEP

WHEN ALL THE MONEY CAN NOT BUY OR SELL IN THE DAY OF THE LORD

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS OWNED BY THE SATANIC ROTTENCHILDS
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 85950740


Ok, so what scriptures do you read?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 85956665



THE BIBLE

THAT

IS

THE WORD

THAT

IS

THE TRUTH

THAT

IS

JESUS CHRIST

ABSOLUTE AND PERFECT

THE AUTHOR OF LIFE EVERLASTING

THEREFORE THE BIBLE IS ABSOLUTE AND PERFECT


IMPERFECT MEN TRYING TO PUT THEIR IMPERFECT SPIN ON ABSOLUTE PERFECTION OF THE BIBLE IS THE PROBLEM

ASK THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR THE CORRECT INTERPRETATION OF WHAT YOU JUST HEARD

TRUST NO MAN

INSTEAD TRUST IN THE FATHER IN HEAVEN

AND

NO ONE COMES BEFORE THE FATHER IN HEAVEN BUT THROUGH THE SON

JESUS CHRIST
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 85950740

YOU DO KNOW WHAT INSTITUTION CANONIZED THE BIBLE, RIGHT?!?!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 85955950


YOU CANNOT CANONIZE GOD

IMPERFECT MEN CAN NOT TELL GOD WHAT TO WRITE IN HIS BOOK
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Re: John Marco Allegro - Vatican scholar, head translator of the dead sea scrolls, fluent in Aramaic, claimed that Jesus was a Magic Mushroom
In the earliest versions of the bible used words that meant drinking powered-up/spiced wine at christian religious ceremonies.

The power-ups in wine at that time would typically be psychedelics.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 85288331


THERE ARE NO POWER UP’S IN HEAVEN

THERE IS NO RELIGION IN HEAVEN

BUT

THERE IS IN THE WORLD AKA SATANS KINGDOM

WHERE THE ONLY THING THEY KNOW IS GETTING HIGH

TO GET CLOSER TO THE DEMONS AND SATAN
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 85950740


You are right and wrong my friend. You can use plants and mushrooms as a shortcut to get spiritual/religious insights and awakenings.

I didn't say you need it, but it could be a helpful tool for some to get in touch with their true self. And it was comon at the time of Jesus.
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TRUE SELF IS THE LIE SATAN TOLD TO ADAM AND EVE

WHEN SATAN TEMPTED ADAM AND EVE IN THE GARDEN

YOU COULD BE AS THE GODS
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Re: John Marco Allegro - Vatican scholar, head translator of the dead sea scrolls, fluent in Aramaic, claimed that Jesus was a Magic Mushroom
Read his book years ago...

Tons of evidence linking magic mushrooms & early church...

Although there is a connection...

It doesn't connect Jesus into an imaginary mushroom dream...?

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Dude invokes the ("Evolution") HOAX in the second video...

Thoroughly discrediting himself...
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I have two question, OP:

1. Are you the same person who went by the handle Heart Sutra?

2. Are you a follower of the Love Has Won cult?
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No, never went by the name Heart Sutra.
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Re: John Marco Allegro - Vatican scholar, head translator of the dead sea scrolls, fluent in Aramaic, claimed that Jesus was a Magic Mushroom
They will twist and distort scripture…


unto their own destruction
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Not really.

If we are "made in the image of God", then mushrooms symbolize this in that each individual mushroom is an image of the whole species itself.

In Genesis God creates the heavens and the Earth.
Then in Gen. 3 there is a fall of man. The fall of man
allegory represents separation from God, or the breaking apart from wholeness into individuality. Breaking down
is also known as corruption.

The German word 'Zerfall' means decay. (like how atoms decay into more stable elements over time.) In the communion service the priest breaks the bread. The bread is a round
loaf which is separated and distributed to the faithful.
The breaking of the bread and the eating of it bring us back to wholeness with Christ. The chalice contains the blood of Christ. Each sip of the content wine = a fraction of the whole content. The whole isn't permanently fractured since all the fractions = the whole.

The original is still there in the parts.
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This is fascinating. Would you please expound more on this? I am loving the way you are putting this together. I have some amanita var formosas that i harvested a couple weeks back.
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Thank you very much for the kind words.
I thought it turned out a bit confusing and rambling, but at least
made a little sense.

For people who don't know me, I was raised a Catholic, then
became a staunch atheist for maybe 30 years. I believed all the atheist objections you can think of. Then it finally occurred to me to try to understand the meanings preserved in the literal scriptures and rituals. It became so moving
of an experience that sitting in mass was too over-powering.
My friend thought I was losing it when I broke down crying in church.

As far as using the mushrooms as an entheogen, I have no idea. I've seen them growing and man were they beautiful, but it's not really my cup of tea. I get way too carried away.
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Dead sea scrolls predate Jesus by hundreds of years. There really is no connection between the 2.

As for Jesus, there is more written evidence of him than any other religious founder. To say it's all fake requires proof that just doesn't exist. Jesus was a real historical figure well documented in his time.
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Bullshit. Every lowlife on the streets knew the water into wine trick. Read the book “jesus the magician” and unfortunately there’s literally no historical records of jesus existing really anywhere
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Fun to see the religious slaves use all CAPs in the thread..as if that helps your cause LuL
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Re: John Marco Allegro - Vatican scholar, head translator of the dead sea scrolls, fluent in Aramaic, claimed that Jesus was a Magic Mushroom
Dead sea scrolls predate Jesus by hundreds of years. There really is no connection between the 2.

As for Jesus, there is more written evidence of him than any other religious founder. To say it's all fake requires proof that just doesn't exist. Jesus was a real historical figure well documented in his time.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 84349199


Bullshit. Every lowlife on the streets knew the water into wine trick. Read the book “jesus the magician” and unfortunately there’s literally no historical records of jesus existing really anywhere
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Correct
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Re: John Marco Allegro - Vatican scholar, head translator of the dead sea scrolls, fluent in Aramaic, claimed that Jesus was a Magic Mushroom
One, the Dead Sea scrolls contain precisely zero info about Jesus, because they were written 200-300 BC.

One text, however, did predict that Jesus would be born between 6BC and 3AD, by utilizing OT prophesies. Not bad, considering Jesus was born 3BC.

To assert that Jesus was not an historical figure requires that all extrabiblical texts about Christ be ignored.

Evrn the atheist scholars refuse to do this. They KNOW He was a real person. They simply debate Jesus' divinity.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 86501396


Wut?
There’s many scholars who assert Jesus was not a historical figure.
There were at least 77 “Christos” written of during this time.

And many of them also read the OT prophecies in some regard and calculated the time.
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in the past what you say is true but virtually no credible modern atheist scholar would argue that many biblical figures, including Jesus, were not real.

They have even found a wealth of history regarding Lazarus and the fame he received from being resurrected but no one worshipped him.

Either Jesus was the real deal or it's an incredibly detailed scam. You're free to choose.
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I’m still waiting for this “wealth of history….”
lmao
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The mushroom was used to communicate with the gods.

He’s not the only one who believed Jesus was a spirit and never existed in the flesh.

I prefer to think of Jesus is the spirit wasn’t crucified by his father as a blood sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins. It’s nonsense story doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. None.
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Agree... It didn't happen, at least not in the way it was described... They used real life references to describe the spiritual inner workings of man and illustrate a narrative that gives insight into the relationship between the universe and man. As above so below... Or, on earth as it is in heaven.

Jesus is basically a representation of what a holy man would experience when coming out and declaring his own divinity. It represents the path that one travels during the awakening process.

Jesus could have been a real man, and embodies the principles that were then written down into a narrative to describe the lifecycle of everyone. Jesus said he is out brother, meaning he is just like us, but the Christ that lives in him, also dwells in us, when we become born again.

Its a story of reawakening to the divinity within, and he is our guide to follow
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You have a good understanding of the subject matter. What you and most others lack is the insight into what is meant by "accept Jesus as Savior" - a call that is often used by US sectarians in particular - and what you call "awakening":

God is real. You are not.

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One, the Dead Sea scrolls contain precisely zero info about Jesus, because they were written 200-300 BC.

One text, however, did predict that Jesus would be born between 6BC and 3AD, by utilizing OT prophesies. Not bad, considering Jesus was born 3BC.

To assert that Jesus was not an historical figure requires that all extrabiblical texts about Christ be ignored.

Evrn the atheist scholars refuse to do this. They KNOW He was a real person. They simply debate Jesus' divinity.
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You make several empirical statements with several that are supported by little other than your imagination.

Firstly, while you're correct about their lack of content regarding Jesus, the Dead Sea scrolls have been carbon-dated to between 300BC-100AD and not the 100-year period you state so at least some of them are contemporaneous to the Post-Jesus era. It's also important to note that many of those scrolls are nothing more than fragments, where modern Biblical researchers simply filled in those missing blanks themselves with their own fantasies. REMEMBER: Barring occasional men like Allegro, virtually all of those scholars whose sole purpose was to perpetuate religious myths have ever translated those scrolls so their results were specifically tailored to continue that narrative. And even Allegro does the same thing by hustling his own twisted "mushroom" analysis.

Next, the fragmented scroll text you cite [that supposedly validates Jesus] doesn't mention anyone except a "Messiah" so there's still no proof that Jesus was anything but a quasi-historical figure who was more likely an amalgam of several different "prophets" of the time. And I'd be VERY interested in you providing any "extra-Biblical" texts that prove otherwise.

The fact remains that ALL texts that reference Jesus and early Christianity were written by "historians" who all wrote what they thought people wanted to hear -or worse- were actually paid to write at the behest of their patrons.

I'm speaking of men like Justin Martyr, Josephus, Suetonius, Cassius Dio and Livy who all hustled that new religion to varying degrees. As such none of whom were true historians other than providing scattered details -often political- of everyday life in the Roman Empire.

Further: in most cases their actual writings were lost following their deaths and were reconstructed from the vivid imaginations of Byzantine religious scholars who had an even greater bias in what they set down.

Interestingly, when you examine one of the most famous of those early historians -Suetonius- you're left with a salacious man who today would be employed by TMZ or THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER as he penned intimate -and often false- descriptions of THE TWELVE CEASARS in an attempt to satisfy his more rabid readers.

One more thing:

Conveniently, those scrolls were magically discovered in 1947 just as the state of Israel was being formalized [it came into being in 1948], and Rabbis all around the world instantly embraced them as proof that their beliefs were the only true Godlike worship.

I'd say that timing alone makes those crumbling parchments even more suspicious.

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That is because he was another cluless Catholic apostate.
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The mushroom was used to communicate with the gods.

He’s not the only one who believed Jesus was a spirit and never existed in the flesh.

I prefer to think of Jesus is the spirit wasn’t crucified by his father as a blood sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins. It’s nonsense story doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. None.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 81448642


Agree... It didn't happen, at least not in the way it was described... They used real life references to describe the spiritual inner workings of man and illustrate a narrative that gives insight into the relationship between the universe and man. As above so below... Or, on earth as it is in heaven.

Jesus is basically a representation of what a holy man would experience when coming out and declaring his own divinity. It represents the path that one travels during the awakening process.

Jesus could have been a real man, and embodies the principles that were then written down into a narrative to describe the lifecycle of everyone. Jesus said he is out brother, meaning he is just like us, but the Christ that lives in him, also dwells in us, when we become born again.

Its a story of reawakening to the divinity within, and he is our guide to follow
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 86213016


You have a good understanding of the subject matter. What you and most others lack is the insight into what is meant by "accept Jesus as Savior" - a call that is often used by US sectarians in particular - and what you call "awakening":

God is real. You are not.


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Sure Rabbi. Sure.
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Re: John Marco Allegro - Vatican scholar, head translator of the dead sea scrolls, fluent in Aramaic, claimed that Jesus was a Magic Mushroom
One, the Dead Sea scrolls contain precisely zero info about Jesus, because they were written 200-300 BC.

One text, however, did predict that Jesus would be born between 6BC and 3AD, by utilizing OT prophesies. Not bad, considering Jesus was born 3BC.

To assert that Jesus was not an historical figure requires that all extrabiblical texts about Christ be ignored.

Evrn the atheist scholars refuse to do this. They KNOW He was a real person. They simply debate Jesus' divinity.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 86501396


You make several empirical statements with several that are supported by little other than your imagination.

Firstly, while you're correct about their lack of content regarding Jesus, the Dead Sea scrolls have been carbon-dated to between 300BC-100AD and not the 100-year period you state so at least some of them are contemporaneous to the Post-Jesus era. It's also important to note that many of those scrolls are nothing more than fragments, where modern Biblical researchers simply filled in those missing blanks themselves with their own fantasies. REMEMBER: only scholars whose sole purpose was to perpetuate religious myths have ever translated those scrolls so their results were specifically tailored to continue that narrative.

Next, the fragmented scroll text you cite [that supposedly validates Jesus] doesn't mention anyone except a "Messiah" so there's still no proof that Jesus was anything but a quasi-historical figure who was more likely an amalgam of several different "prophets" of the time. And I'd be VERY interested in you providing any "extra-Biblical" texts that prove otherwise.

The fact remains that ALL texts that reference Jesus and early Christianity were written by "historians" who all wrote what they thought people wanted to hear -or worse- were actually paid to write at the behest of their patrons.

I'm speaking of men like Justin Martyr, Josephus, Suetonius, Cassius Dio and Livy who all hustled that new religion to varying degrees. As such none of whom were true historians other than providing scattered details -often political- of everyday life in the Roman Empire.

Further: in most cases their actual writings were lost following their deaths and were reconstructed from the vivid imaginations of Byzantine religious scholars who had an even greater bias in what they set down.

Interestingly, when you examine one of the most famous of those early historians -Suetonius- you're left with a salacious man who today would be employed by TMZ or THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER as he penned intimate -and often false- descriptions of THE TWELVE CEASARS in an attempt to satisfy his more rabid readers.

One more thing:

Conveniently, those scrolls were magically discovered in 1947 just as the state of Israel was being formalized [it came into being in 1948], and Rabbi's all around the world instantly embraced them as proof that their beliefs were the only true Godlike worship. I'd say that timing alone makes those crumbling parchments even more suspicious.
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Correct.
Adding to this, the foremost knowledgeable people in the field of the Qumran scrolls such as Dr Kipp Davis after spending 25 years studying the parchments actually left Christianity. He was a life long Christian.
His dissertation on why he left only validates exactly what you are saying.
He’s one of many in the field who left Christianity. Dr Bart Ehrman and Dr Richard Carrier are 2 others who spent their lives as Christians studying its origins only to come to the self realization that it’s a fraud.

Feel free to look them up kn YouTube.
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One, the Dead Sea scrolls contain precisely zero info about Jesus, because they were written 200-300 BC.

One text, however, did predict that Jesus would be born between 6BC and 3AD, by utilizing OT prophesies. Not bad, considering Jesus was born 3BC.

To assert that Jesus was not an historical figure requires that all extrabiblical texts about Christ be ignored.

Evrn the atheist scholars refuse to do this. They KNOW He was a real person. They simply debate Jesus' divinity.
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Yep.
By a very odd Coincidence the Baigent book The Jesus Deception which I ordered on library interloan arrived yesterday at my local library and I read it last night.
Seems there are even more scrolls out there from that period, looted by Bedouin, and owned by private collectors.
The originals were split into two collections: one owned in Jordan which had annexed part of Palestine, one owned by Israel.
There's a Catholic vs Jew political context there.
It's quite likely there was a magic mushroom cult that is part of the basis for Roman Catholicism (how embarrassing) relate to the Dionysus/Bacchus, but no real evidence that it was associated with the Judaism of the time.
It must be remembered that this was the era of Gordon Wasson,Carlos Castaneda and the LSD Clowns.
And stupid hippie New Age cretins like Charlie ManSon and his band of deranged feminists.





GLP