Dead Sea Scroll-Revealed Truth
What is a miracle like?
After WWII, Judaists returned to Palestine, and in 1948 the United Nations approved the establishment of the nation Israel. Then, the Dead Sea scrolls came to appear.
Some of those scrolls were written in the era when Christ Jesus was alive or preaching. It is a miracle God performed to, probably, commemorate the establishment of Israel. So, we have to take the incident more seriously. There must be some linkage between Christ Jesus and the Dead Sea scrolls or Qumran. So, there are some scholars who have investigated the relationship between the scrolls and Christianity:
The worldviews of early Christians and the writers of the Dead Sea Scrolls were also starkly different. VanderKam explains, “A group that set a goal of spreading its religious message to all peoples to the ends of the earth had a very different understanding of God’s plan than ones who seem to have done no proselytizing and had no interest in bringing the nations into the fold.”
Nevertheless, there are some similarities between the two groups and their writings, which make for interesting comparisons. For example, a list of miracles appears in both Luke 7:21–22 of the New Testament and the Dead Sea Scroll known as the Messianic Apocalypse (4Q521). In Luke 7, Jesus gives these miracles to the disciples of John the Baptist as proof that he is the messiah. In the Messianic Apocalypse, which was written approximately 150 years before Luke’s Gospel, the Lord is the one who will perform these miracles. The source for both of these lists is Isaiah chapters 35 and 61. While not all of the same miracles appear in Luke 7 and the Messianic Apocalypse, the miracles that do appear in both are listed in the same order (see chart).
The curious thing is that not all of these miracles, such as “raising the dead,” appear in the passages from Isaiah, which were the source material for the lists—the prophecies being fulfilled. Yet the miracle of “raising the dead” appears in both Luke 7 and the Messianic Apocalypse right before bringing “good news to the poor.” Rather than suggesting that the writer of Luke 7 copied from—or was even aware of—the Messianic Apocalypse, this similarity suggests that both groups shared certain “interpretive and theological traditions on which writers in both communities drew.”https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/dead-sea-scrolls/the-dead-sea-scrolls-and-the-new-testament/
Judaism today or after the Jewish-Roman war was different from Judaism before the war. And, what was practiced by Christ Jesus was a kind of Judaism before the Jewish-Roman war. Or we should find what Judaism was before the war or around the first century from the Christian Bible. What we read in the Gospels must be a state of Judaism before the Jewish-Roman war. So, there is no wonder that Luke shares some descriptions with some Dead Seas scroll.
The Dead Dead Seas scrolls tell us that Christ Jesus was a Judaist; what He preached was a kind of Judaism; and His miracles were those of Judaism at the time. It means that Christ Jesus was not Christ Jesus in today's Christianity but a prophet or the Messiah in Judaism before the Jewish-Roman war. Accordingly, Christ Jesus must not have said that He was God or must no have allowed His followers to call Him God.
Christianity of today must be something different from what Christ Jesus preached and practiced before the Jewish-Roman war.
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Mar 11:2 And saith unto them, Go your way into the village over against you: and as soon as ye be entered into it, ye shall find a colt tied, whereon never man sat; loose him, and bring him.
Mar 11:3 And if any man say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye that the Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will send him hither.
Mar 11:4 And they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door without in a place where two ways met; and they loose him.