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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ish who wrote (23711)	7/20/1998 1:19:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Bill, I'm sorry, I'm answering messages so much later that I have forgotten what happened a little while ago. What special did you watch about the Dead Sea Scrolls? What did it say? Is there anything in print, or on the web, about it? Current religious leaders fall into several camps. The theologians at major universities like Harvard and Yale and the University of Chicago participated heavily in the Jesus Seminar on what words were most likely actually spoken by Jesus, and also in the PBS Frontline series on Jesus that I liked so much. Many of them seem to be religious, but they also operate from scientific and historical and archaeological perspectives. Even though they have doctorates and often lead departments of religious studies, the conservative Christians seem very threatened by them because they don't operate totally from BELIEVING. My personal feeling is that operating solely on belief creates fervor and energy that are sometimes negative, but I know I am in the minority here! Anyway, I know what you mean when you say the current religious leaders do not want to let the general public to know what the scrolls say. The Gospel of Thomas, which was discovered in 1945 and shows an introspective, almost Buddhist Jesus was received in much the same way. A lot of conservative Christians felt very threatened! pbs.org