Jesus[pbuh] and Birds

Lessons in Allegory

One drip at a time it comes out. Once drip at a time the secular realm is catching up with the sublime. The funny thing though, nobody is going to speak a peep about it. Especially the Messianic fanatics. Those people can't accept anything outside of “that” awful paradigm. The only thing they will accept is evil cloaked in religion and its fully supportive media apparatus. Baby and bathwater go out. In fact, the disciples of detriment don't even listen to Jesus [pbuh]. They hate his example.

"And (appoint him, Jesus) a messenger to the Children of Israel, (with this message): "I have come to you, with a Sign from your Lord, in that I make for you out of clay, as it were, the figure of a bird, and breathe into it, and it becomes a bird by All Mighty God's leave: And I heal those born blind, and the lepers, and I quicken the dead, by All Mighty God's leave; and I declare to you what ye eat, and what ye store in your houses. Surely therein is a Sign for you if ye did believe...”

Holy Quran 3:49

The aforementioned verse, from over 1400 years ago has been confirmed by a recent discovery. So what? Who cares? I know... “My pastor didn’t confirm it.”

“...two experts said in a news release the papyrus contains anecdotes not found in the Bible but one that would have been available and shared during the Middle Ages. The words on the document reveal a remarkable miracle Jesus performed as a child, where he brought clay figures of birds to life.”

“In the Gospel of Thomas story, a five-year-old Jesus is playing in a stream while molding 12 sparrows out of soft clay in the riverbed mud. But when his father, Joseph, sees what he is doing, he scolds Jesus and demands to know why he is molding clay on the Sabbath. Jesus responds by telling the clay figures to take flight as living birds, and they obey his command.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/unbelievable-experts-discover-oldest-written-record-jesus-christs/

“Then will All Mighty God will say: "O Jesus the son of Mary! Recount My favor to thee and to thy mother. Behold! I strengthened thee with the holy spirit, so that thou didst speak to the people in childhood and in maturity. Behold! I taught thee the Book and Wisdom, the Law and the Gospel and behold! thou makest out of clay, as it were, the figure of a bird, by My leave, and thou breathest into it and it becometh a bird by My leave, and thou healest those born blind, and the lepers, by My leave. And behold! thou bringest forth the dead by My leave. And behold! I did restrain the Children of Israel from (violence to) thee when thou didst show them the clear Signs, and the unbelievers among them said: “This is nothing but evident magic.”

Holy Quran 5:110

“A newly deciphered manuscript dating back 1,600 years has been determined to be the oldest record of Jesus Christ's childhood, experts said in a news release. The piece of papyrus has been stored in a university library in Hamburg, Germany for decades, historians at Humboldt University announced. The document "remained unnoticed" until Dr. Lajos Berkes, from Germany's Institute for Christianity and Antiquity at Humboldt University in Berlin and professor Gabriel Nocchi Macedo from Belgium's University of Liège, studied it and identified it as the earliest surviving copy of the "Infancy Gospel of Thomas," a document detailing Jesus Christ's childhood.  The document translated by Berkes and Macedo was dated between the 4th and 5th century.”

“The stories in the document are not in the Bible, the news release said, but the papyrus contains anecdotes that would have been widely shared in the Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The few words on the fragment describe a "miracle" that Jesus performed as a child, according to the Gospel of Thomas, which says he brought clay figures of birds to life. The document was written in Greek, Macedo said, confirming for researchers that the gospel was originally written in that language. The fragment contains 13 lines in Greek letters and originates from late antique Egypt, according to the news release. The papyrus went ignored for so long because past researchers considered it "insignificant," the news release said. New technology helped Berkes and Macedo decipher the language on the fragment and compare it to other early Christian texts.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/manuscript-deciphered-jesus-christ-childhood-oldest-written-record-experts-say/

“For decades, a papyrus fragment with the inventory number P.Hamb. Graec. 1011 remained unnoticed at the Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky State and University Library. Now papyrologists Dr Lajos Berkes from the Institute for Christianity and Antiquity at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU), and Prof Gabriel Nocchi Macedo from the University of Liège, Belgium, have identified the fragment as the earliest surviving copy of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas.”

“This is a significant discovery for the research field, as the manuscript dates back to the early days of Christianity. Until now, a codex from the 11th century was oldest known Greek version of the Gospel of Thomas, which was probably written in the 2nd century AD. The Gospel tells episodes of the childhood of Jesus and is one of the biblical apocrypha. These writings were not included in the Bible, but their stories were very popular and widespread in Antiquity and the Middle Ages.”

“The fragment is of extraordinary interest for research,” says Lajos Berkes, lecturer at the Faculty of Theology at Humboldt-Universität. “On the one hand, because we were able to date it to the 4th to 5th century, making it the earliest known copy. On the other hand, because we were able to gain new insights into the transmission of the text.”

“Our findings on this late antique Greek copy of the work confirm the current assessment that the Infancy Gospel according to Thomas was originally written in Greek,” says Gabriel Nocchi Macedo from the University of Liège.”

“The fragment, which measures around 11 x 5 centimetres, contains a total of thirteen lines in Greek letters, around 10 letters per line, and originates from late antique Egypt. The papyrus remained unnoticed for a long time because the content was considered insignificant. “It was thought to be part of an everyday document, such as a private letter or a shopping list, because the handwriting seems so clumsy,” says Berkes. “We first noticed the word Jesus in the text. Then, by comparing it with numerous other digitised papyri, we deciphered it letter by letter and quickly realised that it could not be an everyday document.” Using other key terms such as ‘crowing’ or ‘branch’, which the papyrologists searched in other early Christian texts, they recognised that it was a copy of the Infancy Gospel according to Thomas. “From the comparison with already known manuscripts of this Gospel, we know that our text is the earliest. It follows the original text, which according to current state of research was written in the 2nd century AD.”

“The two researchers assume that the copy of the Gospel was created as a writing exercise in a school or monastery, as indicated by the clumsy handwriting with irregular lines, among other things. The few words on the fragment show that the text describes the beginning of the ‘vivification of the sparrows’, an episode from Jesus' childhood that is considered the “second miracle” in the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas: Jesus plays at the ford of a rushing stream and moulds twelve sparrows from the soft clay he finds in the mud. When his father Joseph rebukes him and asks why he is doing such things on the holy Sabbath, the five-year-old Jesus claps his hands and brings the clay figures to life.”

Lajos Berkes - Gabriel Nocchi Macedo, Das früheste Manuskript des sogenannten Kindheitsevangeliums des Thomas: Editio princeps of P.Hamb.Graec. 1011, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 229 (2024) 68-74.

Earliest manuscript of Gospel about Jesus’s childhood discovered

https://www.hu-berlin.de/en/press-portal/nachrichten-en/june-2024/nr-2464

So, the allegory of the bird is not in the Bible? What else is not in the Bible? What else is added? No one knows, however the bigger question is, “will it matter?” Nope. Why? Because the narrow minds don't care. They “need” a “religious enemy.” People need someone who has a faith, any faith, so that they can have an excuse to be violent, hate, do evil and be divisive. It’s the “Messianic lord Syndrome.” They want to lord over and tyrannically rule everyone, it is the Messianic fanatic way. The Messianic fanatics don't care, they have to have an adversary, and when none is available they create them. Then evil doers of religion and politics pick and choose the verses that they utilize in their witchery to activate their minions.

Prophet Muhammad is in the bible, I covered it in a previous post, but it does not matter. His presence there does not fit the Messianic narrative and so the disciples of such ignore it. After all, can't have “scripture” ruining the Messianic fairy tale. Can’t have a ‘moozlem” in the Bible, even though Muslim in Arabic means, “One who submits to the will of All Mighty God.” Maybe that “is” the problem. Can’t have people submitting to nothing but satan’s Messianic fanaticism, right?

The only division in “religion,” like everything else, is caused by the institutions, leaders, their hardcore extremist supporters and not rank and file regular people. You know, the ones who are seeking Peace and Love. The ones who renounce hate. The ones who are sane. Those of brighter lights, they study, they read, the don’t harm the dignity people, and most of all they tolerate and respect what others believe. People should dispute “because of” All Mighty God, not over Him. What does that mean? Dispute over evil, not the religious traditions of others.

The only time when it is lawful to dispute the traditions of others, is when it is manifest that it is the tradition of harm, injustice and detriment. Dispute the evil, and call to mind the allegory of Jesus’ [pbuh] birds.

Lord have Mercy