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How Do The Dead Sea Scroll Forgeries Impact Christianity?

BibleThinker

Mike Winger

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

I'll give you the summary in the first minute of this video and you can get the full download if you stick around for the whole talk. I'ts a lot of interesting stuff and some fun with weird comments on Twitter. We will show exactly what was forged, what it means for Christianity, what it means for the Museum of the Bible, and what it means for the Dead Sea Scrolls as a whole. I think it's important to realize that news outlets, in an effort to get more views on their articles, have given people a false impression about this discovery. Wesley Huff has his own web site here https://www.wesleyhuff.com/ More resources if you're interested in knowing more about the Dead Sea Scrolls. Lay-Level Christian Beginnings and the Dead Sea Scrolls https://www.amazon.com/Christian-Beginnings-Scrolls-Studies-Theology/dp/080102837X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Christian+beginnings+and+the+dead+sea+scrolls&qid=1584370753&s=books&sr=1-1 Intermediate: The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls (3 vol.) https://www.amazon.com/Bible-Dead-Sea-Scrolls-set/dp/1932792341 Advanced: The Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Dead-Sea-Scrolls-set/dp/0195084500/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+encyclopedia+of+the+dead+sea+scrolls&qid=1584370840&s=books&sr=1-1���DSS Translations�The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition Vol. 1 https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Scrolls-Study-vol-1Q1-4Q273/dp/0802877524/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+dead+sea+scrolls+study+edition&qid=1584370923&s=books&sr=1-1 Vol. 2 https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Scrolls-Study-vol-4Q273-11Q31/dp/0802877532/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=The+dead+sea+scrolls+study+edition&qid=1584371001&s=books&sr=1-2 The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Sea-Scrolls-New-Translation/dp/006076662X/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=The+dead+sea+scrolls+study+edition&qid=1584371016&s=books&sr=1-3

Transcript

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0:00.0

Here's the short version, the in a nutshell version of today's interview.

0:04.0

The Museum of the Bible does in fact have forgeries. In fact all their copies of the Dead Sea

0:08.9

Scrolls are forgeries. That is very true, although somewhat misleading information.

0:14.0

News outlets are going bonkers in some cases, basically spreading what ends up being

0:20.0

misconceptions in the ideas of your average normal reader of these of these articles and of the

0:24.6

headlines. In reality these are just tiny fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls and while

0:29.7

they're all 16 of them are forgeries it It has no impact whatsoever on the authentic

0:34.8

Dead Sea Scrolls or on how they weigh in on biblical scholarship. It has no

0:38.2

impact whatsoever. It should not affect your your beliefs or your faith as a

0:42.3

Christian in any way shape or form.

0:45.0

So what we're going to do is we're going to give you now the full download.

0:47.0

I've brought my friend on Wesley Huff who's going to talk about the Dead Sea Scrolls, the forgeries, the nature of the forgeries,

0:52.0

its impact on either Christianity

0:53.6

there is a lesson to learn here or the Museum of the Bible is potential impact on

0:57.7

them and then we're going to talk about some Twitter posts I've pulled up to show

1:00.9

the misinformation that this kind of reckless news writing puts out

1:06.2

there and creates in the Twitter verse.

1:08.6

So here it comes.

1:09.6

I hope that this is a blessing to you and I just pray that God uses it to give you wisdom.

1:15.0

All right, Wes, thanks for joining me man.

1:17.0

I'm really grateful to have you here.

1:19.0

Wes is a good friend of mine as well as a really smart guy if you wouldn't mind tell us

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