That is annoying. It would have been nice to have the tablets in a museum.

OP since you don't believe in God...do you believe in Satan ?

The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered nearly 70 years ago. They date back over 2,400 years.

Read more here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls


The Dead Sea Scrolls, in the narrow sense of Qumran Caves Scrolls,[notes 1] are a collection of some 981 different texts discovered between 1946 and 1956 in eleven caves from the immediate vicinity of the ancient settlement at Khirbet Qumran in the West Bank. The caves are located about 2 kilometres inland from the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, from which they derive their name.[1]

The texts are of great historical, religious, and linguistic significance because they include the second oldest known surviving manuscripts of works later included in the Hebrew Bible canon, along with deuterocanonical and extra-biblical manuscripts which preserve evidence of the diversity of religious thought in late Second Temple Judaism. There are only two silver scrolls which contain biblical text and are older than the Dead Sea Scrolls; they were excavated in Jerusalem at Ketef Hinnom and date from around 600 BCE.

Most of the texts are written in Hebrew, with some in Aramaic (in different regional dialects, including Nabataean), and a few in Greek.[2] If discoveries from the Judean desert are included, Latin (from Masada) and Arabic (from Khirbet al-Mird) can be added.[3] Most texts are written on parchment, some on papyrus and one on copper.[4]

The larger consensus is that the Qumran Caves Scrolls date from the last three centuries BCE and the first century CE (see "Age" paragraph in this article and the dedicated site of the Israel Museum[5]). Bronze coins found at the same sites form a series beginning with John Hyrcanus (135–104 BCE) and continuing until the First Jewish-Roman War (66–73 CE), supporting the radiocarbon and paleographic dating of the scrolls.[6] Manuscripts from additional Judean desert sites go back as far as the eighth century BCE to as late as the 11th century CE.[7]

The scrolls have traditionally been identified with the ancient Jewish sect called the Essenes, although some recent interpretations have challenged this association and argue that the scrolls were penned by priests in Jerusalem, Zadokites or other unknown Jewish groups.[8][9]

Due to the poor condition of some of the Scrolls, not all of them have been identified. Those that have been identified can be divided into three general groups:

some 40% of them are copies of texts from the Hebrew Bible,
approximately another 30% of them are texts from the Second Temple Period and which ultimately were not canonized in the Hebrew Bible, like the Book of Enoch, Jubilees, the Book of Tobit, the Wisdom of Sirach, Psalms 152–155, etc., and
the remaining roughly 30% of them are sectarian manuscripts of previously unknown documents that shed light on the rules and beliefs of a particular group or groups within greater Judaism, like the Community Rule, the War Scroll, the Pesher on Habakkuk and The Rule of the Blessing.[10]

I will post in more detail about the 2 Jewish Temples later. They were both destroyed in the wars. The third temple will be built after the coming of the Messiah. The holy Western Wall is the only remnant of the the second holy temple. The temples were supposed to be magnificent in scale and design, comparable to the 7 Wonders of the World.

Model reproduction below of Herod's Temple (Second Temple) approximately 2,500 years ago. Took 23 years to build and was completed in 515 BCE. It was not as extravagant or imposing as the First Temple but still magnificent.

The First Temple dates back nearly 3,000 years (built in 957 BCE by the wise King Solomon. It took 7 years to build). They each stood for 371 years (reconstructed multiple times through the wars) and 445 years respectively before the latter was completely destroyed in 70 CE, 1,945 years ago. We can't say anything lasting that long today. The Ark of the Covenants, which held the tablets destroyed by Moses, was housed by the temples. More on this later.



The Ark of the Covenant, also known as the Ark of the Testimony, is a chest described in the Book of Exodus[1] as containing the Tablets of Stone on which the Ten Commandments were inscribed. According to the New Testament Letter to the Hebrews,[2] the Ark also contained Aaron's rod, a jar of manna (food from the heavens given by God in the desert), and the first Torah scroll as written by Moses; however, the first of the Books of Kings says that at the time of King Solomon, the Ark contained only the two Tablets of the Law.[3] According to the Book of Exodus, the Ark was built at the command of God, in accordance with the instructions given to Moses on Mount Sinai[4] In Deuteronomy 5:6, these events are described as having transpired at Mount Horeb.[5][6] God was said to have communicated with Moses "from between the two cherubim" on the Ark's cover.[7]

Model reproduction of the Ark of the Covenant

The Annunaki, wrote the bible!

the same reason we believe anything people told us,, and honestly, from birth we have learned almost everything except bodily functions and consequences from what we learned of what we were 'told' in a book or verbally


As a child I 'knew' there was something bigger than me, I 'knew' that there was a design behind all the things around me that worked together, as I learned about God,, just like learning about air, it made sense as the explanation for the intelligent design,, just like air made sense for how I breathe

I can not see air, I can not see God, but I was taught about both, they both fit my experience and make sense,, so I believe in them

I can not see air, I can not see God, but I was taught about both, they both fit my experience and make sense,, so I believe in them


You feel air, breeze , did you ever feel God ? Have you ever seen God ? Have you ever listen to his voice ? Where does this God go , when women are raped, people are murdered in the name of religion, or just for nothing ? What does this God or something like that do then ? People believe in God because most of them fear the life after death . Are there any scientific proof that , there exists a life after death ? Have anyone ever seen any kind of heaven or hell ?
I don't want to attack your sentiments , but please think rationally .

Lol.. you are telling the same old story again and again, however the subject matter is. You are telling what you have learned from those priests or religious people , who brainwash you . Just tell me, have you ever felt God? Have you ever seen God yourself ? Have you ever listened to his voice ? Thousands of people is being murdered , raped somewhere in this world. What this God is doing now ? Imagine a girl being raped... screaming for help .. what does this God do then ? What this God has given to humanity ? All the modern day inventions, medicines, communications, everything was and being invented by Human beings, not that God. Ask your God to give food to all those poor people in this world,this God will never be able to feed those people. You did not understand my point . People believe in God , because they are told so. They never verify it.

i feel sorry for you...

The Ten Commandments and the Torah and the Bible has laid the groundwork on the "instructions for life". The Torah (The Old Testament) means just that. If you bothered to read the Bible, instead of senselessly spouting, you would know that we were given free will. God does not meddle in our affairs. All those horrible things you mentioned are created by man and his inability to follow God's commandments correctly.

It saddens me to see people try to use "science" as a way to prove God does not exist. As a person of science, I am very objective and can tell fact from fiction in most circumstances.

Modern science uses math, observation, data collection, experimentation, and (hopefully) logic to understand what is happening in the world around us. If something cannot be reproduced in a lab, some think that it has been proven "false". Nothing could be farther from the truth. It just means the experiment failed. Millions of people have witnessed UFOs of the type that do not appear to be made on this world but the event cannot be duplicated in a lab so many say they do not exist.

Millions of people have experienced visions of events that happened to twins, family members far away, events in the future or of the past of which they could not possibly have had any prior knowledge; but the event cannot be reproduced in the lab so many say it didn't happen. (It has happened to me BTW)

Modern physics has opened the door to the possibility, maybe even the probability, that multiple dimensions exist across time, space, and places we cannot even imagine, giving rise to the fact "there is much we don't know". At the same time we are constantly exploring new concepts and making discoveries that, only a few years ago, would be considered "acts of God". Perhaps, if we are around that long, in a million years we might glimpse the universe in such a manner as to show the handprint of a great creator. Maybe not. But you look at what mankind has accomplished in the last hundred years, think about what the same growth of knowledge might do in a billion years, ... or a hundred billion.

The inability to see God may just be a limitation of humanity's vision.

Well more people r god fearing people rather than l god loving, many people believe in god as they fear , we all havebeen told dont do this and that or god will punish u, well i do not believe in all these things, i believe there is only one power or energy which is running the universe and we give that energy many name

It appears you are a deist.

"List of deists
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Charles Sanders Peirce
Dmitri Mendeleev
Hermann Weyl
Humphry Davy
James Watt
Jules Verne
Ludwig Boltzmann
Max Born
Max Planck
Mikhail Lomonosov
Neil Armstrong
Robert Hooke
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine
Voltaire
Wernher von Braun
Wolfgang Pauli

This is a partial list of people who have been categorized as deists, the belief in a deity based on natural religion only, or belief in religious truths discovered by people through a process of reasoning, independent of any revelation through scripture or prophets. They have been selected for their influence on Deism, or for their fame in other areas.

Alfred M. Mayer (1836–1897), American physicist.[1]
Al-Maʿarri (973–1058), was a blind Arab philosopher, poet and writer, and a controversial rationalist.[2]
Anaxagoras (c. 500–428 BC), Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher.[3]
Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989), Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident, and human rights activist.[4]
Antony Flew (1923–2010), British philosopher and prominent former atheist[5]
Alexander Pope (1688–1744), English poet during the eighteenth century
Adam Smith (1723–90), Scottish Philosopher and economist; considered the father of modern economics[6]
Ahmad Kasravi (1890–1946), Iranian linguist, historian and reformer.[7]
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90), American polymath; one of the Founding Fathers of the United States[8]
Brett Gurewitz (1962–), guitarist and songwriter for the American punk rock band Bad Religion[9]
Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855), German mathematician and physical scientist who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, electrostatics, astronomy and optics.[10][11][12][13][14]
Charles Lyell (1797–1875), British lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day. He is best known as the author of Principles of Geology, which popularised James Hutton's concepts of uniformitarianism.[15]
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914), American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist, sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism". He was educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for 30 years. Today he is appreciated largely for his contributions to logic, mathematics, philosophy, scientific methodology, and semiotics, and for his founding of pragmatism.[16]
Colin Maclaurin (1698–1746), Scottish mathematician who made important contributions to geometry and algebra. The Maclaurin series, a special case of the Taylor series, are named after him.[17]
Dmitri Mendeleev (1834–1907), Russian chemist and inventor. He is credited as being the creator of the first version of the periodic table of elements.[18]
Ethan Allen (1738–89), early American revolutionary and guerrilla leader[19]
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1583–1648), British soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religious philosopher[20]
Elihu Palmer (1764–1806), American author and advocate of deism[21]
Émilie du Châtelet (1706–49), French mathematician, physicist, and author during the Age of Enlightenment. Her crowning achievement is considered to be her translation and commentary on Isaac Newton's work Principia Mathematica.[22][23]
Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937), New Zealand chemist and "father" of nuclear physics, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908 "for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances".[24][25][26]
Frederick the Great (1712–86), Prussian King from the Hohenzollern dynasty[27]
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright.[28]
Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716), German mathematician and philosopher. He is best known for developing infinitesimal calculus independently of Isaac Newton, and his mathematical notation has been widely used ever since it was published.[29][30]
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist, and art critic[31]
George Washington (1732–1799), one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and the 1st President of the United States[32]
Harish-Chandra (1923–83), Indian mathematician, who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially Harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups.[33]
Harmony Korine (1973–), American film director, producer, screenwriter, and author.[34]
Henrik Wergeland (1808–45), Norwegian poet and theologist (by self-definition).
Hermann Weyl (1885–1955), German mathematician and theoretical physicist.[35]
Humphry Davy (1778–1829), British chemist and inventor.[36]
James Heckman (1944–), American economist who shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2000 for his pioneering work in econometrics and microeconomics.[37]
James Hutton (1726–1797), Scottish physician, geologist, naturalist, chemical manufacturer and experimental agriculturalist. His work helped to establish the basis of modern geology. His theories of geology and geologic time, also called deep time, came to be included in theories which were called plutonism and uniformitarianism.[38][39]
James Madison (1751–1836), "Father of the United States Constitution", one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, and the 4th President of the United States[32]
James Watt (1736–1819), Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the Newcomen steam engine were fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.[40][41]
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829), French naturalist. He was a soldier, biologist, academic, and an early proponent of the idea that evolution occurred and proceeded in accordance with natural laws.[42]
Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717–83), French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. He was also co-editor with Denis Diderot of the Encyclopédie.[43]
John Muir (1838–1914), Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States.[44]
John Toland (1670–1722), Irish philosopher, coined the term "pantheism"[45]
John Locke (1632–1704), influential English philosopher in the field of empiricism[46]
José Rizal (1861–96), a Filipino patriot, philosopher, medical doctor, poet, journalist, novelist, political scientist, painter and polyglot. Considered to be one of the Philippines' most important heroes and martyrs whose writings and execution contributed to the igniting of the Philippine Revolution. He is also considered as Asia's first modern non-violent proponent of freedom.[47]
Jules Verne (1828–1905), French author who pioneered the science fiction genre in Europe. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and Around the World in Eighty Days.[48][49][50][51]
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer.[52][53]
Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906), Austrian physicist famous for his founding contributions in the fields of statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics.[54][55]
Luis Walter Alvarez (1911–1988), American experimental physicist and inventor, who spent nearly all of his long professional career on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968, and took out over 40 patents, some of which led to commercial products.[56]
Lysander Spooner (1808–87), American anarchist, philosopher and abolitionist[57]
Mark Twain (1835–1910), American author and humorist[58]
Martin Gardner (1914–2010), American popular mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational mathematics, but with interests encompassing micromagic, stage magic, literature (especially the writings of Lewis Carroll and G. K. Chesterton), philosophy, scientific skepticism, and religion.[59]
Matthew Tindal (1657–1733), controversial English author whose works were influential on Enlightenment thinking[60]
Max Born (1882–1970), German-British physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 30s. Born won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics (shared with Walther Bothe).[61][62]
Max Planck (1858–1947), German physicist, regarded as the founder of quantum theory.[63]
Maximilien Robespierre (1758–94), French revolutionary and lawyer[64]
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–65), Russian polymath, scientist and writer, who made important contributions to literature, education, and science. Among his discoveries was the atmosphere of Venus. His spheres of science were natural science, chemistry, physics, mineralogy, history, art, philology, optical devices and others. Lomonosov was also a poet and influenced the formation of the modern Russian literary language.[65]
Moses Mendelssohn (86), German philosopher influential in the Jewish Haskalah[66]
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821), French military and political leader[67]
Neil Armstrong (1930–2012), American NASA astronaut, test pilot, aerospace engineer, university professor, United States Naval Aviator, and the first person to set foot upon the Moon.[68]
Nick Cave (1957–), Australian musician, songwriter, poet, author and actor.[69][70]
Paul Davies (1946–), British physicist and science writer and broadcaster[71]
Robert Hooke (1635–1703), English natural philosopher, architect and polymath.[72]
Simon Newcomb (1835–1909), Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician.[73]
Thomas Alva Edison (1847–1931), American inventor and businessman.[74]
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), author of the Jefferson Bible, an American Founding Father, the principal author of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and the third President of the United States.[75][76][77]
Thomas Paine (1737–1809), English pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical, inventor, and intellectual, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States[78]
Victor Hugo (1802–85), French writer, artist, activist and statesman[58][79]
Voltaire (1694–1778), French Enlightenment writer and philosopher[80]
Walter Kohn (1923–), Austrian-born American theoretical physicist. He was awarded, with John Pople, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998.[81]
Wernher von Braun (1912–77), German-American rocket scientist, aerospace engineer, space architect, and one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology.[82]
William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879), American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, and was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society, he promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United States.[83]
William Hogarth (1697–1764), English painter, visual artist and pioneering cartoonist[84]
Wolfgang Pauli (1900–58), Austrian theoretical physicist. In 1945, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics. He is best known for his work on Pauli principle and spin theory."

Well u can say so, cos i believe god( the super energy of ubiverse) do exist but does not shoe the existance and let the things happen, all the concequences which we face are of our actions, as newton says every action has opposit and euaal reaction, though if we believe in that supermost energy of universe it gives us optimism and motivation, the believe only lead us in positive direction

- Just tell me, have you ever felt God?
Every day :)

- Have you ever seen God yourself
Everywhere :)

- Have you ever listened to his voice
In every decision I've made :)




Yes people can be awefully cruel.



Why are you so worried about the here and now. Yes it's unfortunately the girl was raped, but the rapist will have his reward for his action. Remember, we were kicked out of Eden and separated from God. So we spend our life trying to acheive getting back to God. Where I will spend all eternity with God and I'll never have anything to fear, cry over or be sad about. God has given his self for humanity on the cross so you could live. And while we're separated from God, he never promised it would be a paradise here, plus again the woman being raped was a use of free will of the man doing the raping. Has no connection to God in that exact context.

I think your parents did not have to do sex .. God brought you in this world

You see God !!?? How does he look like ? He or She ? Does God has any particular gender ? You failed to answer another question , why do God fail to feed those poor people ? If this God can't feed people here, there is no guarantee that he/ she would be able to feed people in what you say heaven . Anyway, be happy with your God .

Did you read my reply about man having free will? God is not responsible for the actions of mankind. He gave us instructions (the Bible) on how to live. The rest is up to us. God is not responsible for feeding poor people. We have free will. We are responsible for our own actions. We are going around in circles now.