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Five Dead Sea scrolls are forgeries Comments 0

Thursday, October 25th, 2018

Five of the Dead Sea scrolls on display at the Washington, DC-based Museum of the Bible are forgeries, experts say. Until the forgeries were exposed, the scroll fragments were considered among the most valuable and historically significant items in the museum’s collection. The museum says a German testing company has concluded the fragments on display Read more

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Non-sectarian Bible Museum opens Comments 0

Monday, November 20th, 2017

A non-sectarian Museum of the Bible opened in Washington on Saturday. The US$500 million museum’s aim is to entertain and educate visitors about the Bible’s history and significance. Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the Israeli Ambassador to the United States and the museum’s co-founder, evangelical businessman Steve Green, were at the opening. Wuerl spoke on behalf of Read more

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  • Kieran Thank you for the reminder that 'Real Presence' is a belief that goes beyond us and the reminder of the part the Holy Spirit plays along with the priest in invoking that presence. I have a concern that we may well have made 'Real Presence' and 'transubstantiation' into formulas of orthodoxy without...

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  • Father_Ron As an 'Anglo-Catholic' priest (High-Church Anglican) I do believe in the 'Real Presence' of Christ in the Mass/Eucharist. Otherwise, the Scriptures that report Jesus as saying - at the Last Supper: "This is my Body; This is my Blood" would have been grossly misleading. My understanding of the...

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  • Mary Overbeek An excellent press release from the NZ bishops. It is compassionate and honest.

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