In all the excitement that the election season provides us (remember?), we often forget what’s really important. This is one of those times.
Peter Papoutsis, a long-time reader of this blog as well as an avid archaeology buff, sent us the following article from The Daily Mail.
According to this article, a mosaic –the “Megiddo Mosaic”–found underneath an Israeli prison provides the earliest proof outside the New Testament of the Church’s belief that Jesus was God.
So, contrary to what liberals and Unitarians have been proclaiming ever since the so-called Enlightenment, Christians believed that Jesus was God incarnate from the start of the Church. The mosaic itself dates from AD 220, a full one hundred years before the Council of Nicaea, which according to liberals, was when Constantine the Great “hijacked” the Church for his own political purposes.
This line of thinking is hogwash and always has been.
Think of it: to undertake an artistic expression like this cost a lot of money; money most Christians didn’t have. It was also a dangerous statement, given the fact that the Roman Empire, as well as the Jewish hierarchy, had outlawed Christianity. Why would early Christians want to proclaim the divinity of Christ which was the reason they were persecuted?
So, this holiday season, when you gather around the dinner table with your uncle who’s the village atheist or your niece who is home from college fresh with stupid ideas about this, that, or the other thing, just show them this clip.
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