Donna Danna (11 Aug 2024)
"REPLY TO NANSINGS -- John 14:1 Is Not In the Dead Sea Scrolls"


This is in reply to your 8/04 post Reply to Lewis Brackett (07-28-24), "Many Dwelling Places In Heaven" (fivedoves.com) in which you stated the following:

"In the Dead Sea Scrolls it reads "In My Father's house are many orbs."  Orbs is another word for planets/worlds.  God is infinite and told someone He is the definition of "infinity."  So He has infinite worlds."

(MY REPLY: John 14:2, "In my Father's house are many mansions:" is in the New Testament of the Bible. The Dead Sea scrolls contains most of the Hebrew Bible which does not contain the New Testament with the book of John. The Hebrew Bible contains the books of the Old Testament so "In My Father's house are many orbs" wouldn't be in it. The Dead Sea Scrolls were written between 250 B.C. - 150 B.C. before Jesus Christ was even born and before the book of John was ever written. Please read the article below.

What are the Dead Sea Scrolls and why are they important? | GotQuestions.org
"The Dead Sea Scrolls comprise a vast collection of Jewish documents written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, and encompassing many subjects and literary styles. They include manuscripts or fragments of every book in the Hebrew Bible except the Book of Esther, all of them created nearly one thousand years earlier than any previously known biblical manuscripts. The scrolls also contain the earliest existing biblical commentary, on the Book of Habakkuk, and many other writings, among them religious works pertaining to Jewish sects of the time."

"The legends of what was contained in the Dead Sea Scrolls are far beyond what was actually there. There were no lost books of the Bible or other literature that there was not already other copies of. The vast majority of the Dead Sea Scrolls were simply copies of books of the Old Testament from 250-150 B.C. A copy or portion of nearly every Old Testament book was found in Qumran. There were extra-biblical and apocryphal books found as well, but again, the vast majority of the scrolls were copies of the Hebrew Old Testament."  FULL ARTICLE at above link.