and some still think it's all fairy tales

From the LA Times: (HT: the Rick and Bubba Show)

Biblical Pool Uncovered in Jerusalem
The reservoir served as a gathering place for Jews making pilgrimages and is said in the Gospel of John to be the site where Jesus cured a blind man.

By Thomas H. Maugh II, Times Staff Writer

Workers repairing a sewage pipe in the Old City of Jerusalem have discovered the biblical Pool of Siloam, a freshwater reservoir that was a major gathering place for ancient Jews making religious pilgrimages to the city and the reputed site where Jesus cured a man blind from birth, according to the Gospel of John.

I'm sure their will be several voices out there that will try to say this find means nothing, but I think the majority of folks will see that this at least opens the door to the truth a little more. Sadly, I think that more than anything else, this find will be ignored.

"Scholars have said that there wasn't a Pool of Siloam and that John was using a religious conceit" to illustrate a point, said New Testament scholar James H. Charlesworth of the Princeton Theological Seminary. "Now we have found the Pool of Siloam … exactly where John said it was."

A gospel that was thought to be "pure theology is now shown to be grounded in history," he said.

If this makes primetime coverage in the MSM, I willl be very surprised.

-the Progressive Conservative

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