By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-20 15:41:15 | Updated at 2024-11-20 18:24:37
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Earliest ‘Jesus is God’ inscription found — deemed ‘greatest discovery since the Dead Sea Scrolls’
NY Post ^ | November 19, 2024 | Ben Cost
Posted on 11/20/2024 7:40:43 AM PST by Twotone
If only these floors could talk.
Scientists are going gaga over the earliest inscription declaring “Jesus is God,” claiming that this 1,800-year-old engraving could change our understanding of Christianity.
The mosaic is “the greatest discovery since the Dead Sea Scrolls,” declared Carlos Campo, CEO of the Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C., where the theologically significant relic has been housed since July, the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) reported.
Dubbed the Meggido Mosaic, the 581-foot artifact was originally underneath a floor of the Meggido Prison in Israel in 2005, after which it was excavated in pieces by the Israel Antiquities Authority over the course of four years.
It had reportedly adorned a private chapel in 230 AD that was reportedly the “earliest known house of prayer,” according to Gil Lin, the head of the Megiddo Regional Council.
Inscribed on the mosaic are Greek words, “The god-loving Akeptous has offered the table to God Jesus Christ as a memorial. Lin described this as the “first physical proclamation of Jesus Christ as God,” the Daily Mail reported.
“The mosaic presents groundbreaking physical evidence of the practices and beliefs of early Christians, including the first archaeological instance of the phrase, ‘God Jesus Christ,’ seconded the exhibition’s curator Alegre Savariego.
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TOPICS: History; Religion
KEYWORDS: inscription; israel; meggido; mosaic
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