I do not usually watch or listen to Glenn Beck but someone pointed out this video of his radio show. The following is a transcription of what he says about the Dead Sea Scrolls, Constantine, and the Council of Nicaea.
… the Dead Sea Scrolls, you know what they are? … So here’s what happened. When Constantine decided that he was going to cobble uh together an army, he did the um Council of Nicaea, right, Pat? (Pat: Yea.) The Council of Nicaea, and what they did is brought all of the religious figures uhh together, all the Christians and they said, “Ok, let’s put together the Apostles’ Creed, let’s you know, you guys do it.” So they brought all their religious scripture together, that’s when the Bible was first bound and everything else. And then they said, “Anybody who disagrees with this is a heretic and off with their head!” Well, that’s what the Dead Sea Scrolls are. They are those scriptures that people had at the time that and they said, “They are destroying all of this truth.” Whether it’s truth or not is up to the individual, but at that time those people thought that this was something that needed to be preserved and so they rolled up the scrolls and put them in clay pots and they, they put them in the back of caves where no one could find them. They were hiding scripture because everything was being destroyed that disagreed with the Council of Nicaea and Constantine. That’s what those things are.
Beck then goes one to say that our children should be our “clay pots” etc etc. Beck is wrong on practically everything that he says. First of all, the Apostles’ Creed was not the product of the Council of Nicaea; it was the Nicene Creed. Second, the DSS were not from the period of Constantine; they were from centuries earlier. Third, the DSS do not even contain any of the New Testament documents; instead, they contain some of the Old Testament and various other texts, none of which were being considered as worthy of inclusion in the Bible at the Council of Nicaea (because the Council of Nicaea had nothing to do with putting the Bible together; there is not a shred of evidence for this).
I have heard Beck say some crazy stuff before. But this is not crazy; it is just ignorance of basic facts.
Yikes! He could write a book and be the next Dan Brown!
oh good grief! AND this man is one of the most influential people in the world. Shaking in my boots.
You would never believe the book I got in the mail the other day…
Anyway, Glenn Beck is an, no, I’ll save that for my Facebook page.
Ugh!
I feel a re-post/response coming on!
Any overlap between what Glenn Beck says and reality is purely coincidental.
Just…wow
I find Glenn Beck to be ignorant of the basic facts on every subject on which he speaks, from politics to the mechanics of putting gas in your car.
whole-heartedly agree! I do not understand why he is so popular!
I agree with Esteban.
Reading this makes me cry.
Liberty should ask Beck to give back his honorary PhD.
Well, that should have never happened in the first place . . .
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Glenn Beck really missed it on this one. I was listening at the time he made this comment. I was like what the heck? I even called my wife and told her about it. I normally do not listen to his radio show, because I am working at the time. However, he is not wrong on everything he says. On somethings he has a pretty good handle on and often has experts on his TV show to back it up. So some of you have made some irresponsible mistakes or like Glenn Beck in this instance, you don’t know your basic facts. So, I figure either you don’t listen to his radio show or watch his TV show (I watch his TV show regularly), or you just pulled a Glenn Beck talking about the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nicene Creed and put your foot in your mouth. If you don’t like him or agree with him that is fine, but try to avoid spewing garbage about someone when you don’t know what you’re talking about either.
I have yet to see, except for the days of the week, anything that Beck has a handle on. Well, except for making money schilling half-truths and bogus history.
Isn’t Beck a Mormon? Could this account for his comments? I mean as a Mormon wouldn’t he believe that the Scriptures are corrupted and that the “Apostate” Church had a hand in which books would be canonized?
I tend to think that it is – which is why he caught himself on the matter of the ‘truth.’
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Maybe he meant Nag Hammandi rather than the DSS?
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This article must be headline news Thank you sir