Elseworlds

Hey guys...wanted to talk a little religion here. You know the story of Jesus, right? He was the Son of God, he died and rose three days later...you are saying yeah, yeah yeah. First, you must treat the story with more reverence. Second, you should look up all the info the Net has to find about the Dead Sea Scrolls. These are ancient manuscripts that were used by the Essenes, a group of people who lived around the time of Jesus. In fact, a book that I read a few months back showed the similarities between the teachings of Jesus, and the Essenes' teacher. I think he was called the Teacher of Rightousness. This book gave an interesting 'what if?'...if you are familiar with the story of Jesus, you know that he disappeared from the ages of 12 to around 30, I believe. Well, the book explained that perhaps Jesus resided with these Essenes during his "Lost Years". The point of interest to this whole story I've been telling is that the Essene papers are older than Jesus! Rather than be blantantly stupid and say that Jesus simply taught the Essene scripts with no divine intervention of any sort, the book says that perhaps this was one way that God showed Jesus what to say to the peoples of Earth. Perhaps Jesus was receiving His Father's words and how to speak them through the Essenes. As a history buff, this all just makes me grin. If it deals with anything dealing with the word 'ancient', I'm all over it. So I went to Barnes and Noble and procured myself a copy of the Complete Dea Sea Scroll Manuscripts in English by Geza Vermes. I am gonna tear into it as soon as I get off here, but I am intrigued by the accusation that these Manuscripts are actually "lost" books of the Bible. Not actually lost, they were simply removed from canonization during religious wars between different sects such as Catholics and Protestants. Therefore, when one group found something that would loophole another group, it is quite possible that it was simply voted out of the Bible at that time. Or simply removed...I think the author stated that some old family Bibles contained the book of Maccabees in small print in between the Old and New Testaments, but so far, I personally have not found one old enough to verify or villify this fact. The thing that got me thinking about all this is my Previews order book that we order comics out of. In it, there is a man writing a fictitional story about finding a 2,000 year old manuscript that chronicles an Eye Witness account of Jesus' last visit to Jerusalem. This premise peaked my interest because it is rare indeed that Jesus in mentioned in the medium of comics or cartoon illustrations. I am exhausted, and I'm gonna turn in now, or at least log off, but I will read some of the Scroll Manuscripts tonight and see if I agree with them going along with the Bible, or if they are hokey, in my humble opinion. Hopefully this has sparked your interest in the Dead Sea Scrolls and maybe you can find some information I have missed. Good night all....I love you all. Sam, hope the trip is going well hon. Talk to you Saturday.

Heath P. Lail