Saturday, March 28, 2009

Down Load!!!

Dear family, 
I am learning! 
                Let me share with you some historical facts and archeological findings. The bible was written in three continents Africa, Asia, Europe. The bible's events happened over 1,500 years. The characters written of or whom wrote pieces were of many different status such as poets, warriors, kings, slaves, servants, and few other more. There are 40 or more authors that wrote the books in the bible, it is amazing that these authors of different statuses wrote about the same God in personality. 
                Three languages were used to write the bible Hebrews, Greek, Aramaic (aramaic was used for Ezra and Daniel). Historical settings of the bible are oppression, war, revolutionary and peace. There has been 7,500 old testament fragments or full books found. New Testament was written between 50-100 a.d. The earliest known copies have been dated to around 125 A.D. Over 24,970 fragments of the New Testament manuscript copies. 
               1947 was a important biblical founding, a child named Muhammad was seeking for his sheep. While seeking he through a rock in to cracks in the ground that led to caves which then to his surprise heard a sound of pots crackling. Come to find out it was 36 complete chapters of Isaiah (which rolls out to 24.5 feet long). The cave in which all this found is call the Qumran, check it out. 
                Capernaum is the town where Jesus was born (Matt 17:24), its a real city, thats all..... The walls of Jericho were found and the walls were pushed out ward. Rahab house still stands like written in Joshua 6:24-25. It is sweet!
               There are some historians that write about Jesus and his followers. Pliny the Younger whom was a lawyer, scientist. Flavious Josephus was a jewish historian that mentions Jesus in his writings. Julius Africanus writes about the darkness covering the earth when Jesus was on the cross. It is pretty sweet. 

Correct me if I have fact wrong but this is the best I got from notes and memory. 
I will stop there for today. Thank you for reading. Sorry for such a long delay. 
Please keep this DTS in your dialogue with Jesus.
Jordan

Thursday, March 12, 2009

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Dear Family,
WOW it has been too long. I sit, begin to write, then out of the blue comes a new event to get to. God has been moving in my life, He is changing my views about life, how to live, where to go, all these different things. I am still working on art, acting, meeting people, but above all I am hanging out with Jesus. He has been the only person that I have been interested in talking with. Yes and like I had just wrote that something comes up in the process of writing on this blog site. Sorry I have been slacking but time will come to write more. Ilove you all. Thank you and keep living with Jesus.