Comments on: The Rock-Hewn Churches of Lalibela https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-eastern-world/rock-hewn-churches-of-lalibela/ Mon, 14 Oct 2024 23:03:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: flyff https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-eastern-world/rock-hewn-churches-of-lalibela/#comment-2000160390 Thu, 07 Apr 2022 09:26:23 +0000 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/?p=45137#comment-2000160390 Having read this I believed it was really informative.
I appreciate you taking the time and energy to put this short article
together. I once again find myself spending way too
much time both reading and posting comments.
But so what, it was still worthwhile!

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By: JDP1975 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-eastern-world/rock-hewn-churches-of-lalibela/#comment-2000029109 Sun, 17 Nov 2019 20:15:39 +0000 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/?p=45137#comment-2000029109 In reply to William Greer.

Perfect example of a non sequitor!
Your response doesn’t seem to have anything to do with this article about Lalibela in Ethiopia! Jesus is not even mentioned by name in this article and is clearly not the subject matter.

Was your comment perhaps intended for another article by this same author? Or are you just randomly ranting on?

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By: JDP1975 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-eastern-world/rock-hewn-churches-of-lalibela/#comment-2000029107 Sun, 17 Nov 2019 20:03:49 +0000 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/?p=45137#comment-2000029107 In reply to mj25.

Indeed, these are very basic and important questions which this article only partially addresses directly. Although the mention of pilgrimage hints at the churches purpose.
Traditionally many devout Ethiopian Christians had been making pilgrimages to the Holy Land but by the time of Lalibela this practice had become dangerous or impossible due to Jerusalem being overrun by Muslims (Seracens/Sarrasins). An attempted poisoning by his elder sister put prince Lalibela into a coma during which time he experienced a divine vision in which God reportedly took him to Heaven and commanded him to construct a place of worship and pilgrimage modeled after important sites in the Holy Land. He was shown the site for construction as well as how to make the tools he would need in his vision. The Lord promised guide him throughout the process and to send His angels by night to do the work which would be too difficult for Lalibela to oversee.
What information seems to be missing to you about the identity of King Lalibela?
As an official religion in Ethiopia, Christianity goes back to the 4 century; but the original introduction of Gospel to Ethiopia goes back the Ethiopian eunuch of the court of Candace who was baptized by Philip on his way home from Jerusalem.
Thanks to its geographical isolation Ethiopian Christianity which, as this story illustrates had strong roots in Judaism, has changed very little over the centuries and survives as one of the purest and most original forms of the faith.

It is certainly true that the long, rich history of Ethiopia, or even just Ethiopian Christianity is far beyond the scope of an article like this one and would require the devotion of multiple volumes! It is a shame that this amazing history is virtually unknown or even imagined beyond the borders of Ethiopia.

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By: Paddy Mac https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-eastern-world/rock-hewn-churches-of-lalibela/#comment-14883 Thu, 27 Sep 2018 01:44:08 +0000 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/?p=45137#comment-14883 I think this may be linked to some of the things Michael Tellinger has been showing us about energy patterns ,different sound frequencys make different shapes (if you had a speaker and placed a flat board over it then say pour salt on the board it separates it into different geometric patterns each Hz level produces a different shape ) well across africa we see pens with stone walls of various different shapes . I think thats what happened here only they took it further instead of laying rough stones they made it permanent (giants?) just a thought wyt?

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By: threo https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-eastern-world/rock-hewn-churches-of-lalibela/#comment-14842 Sun, 16 Sep 2018 09:17:31 +0000 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/?p=45137#comment-14842 in the darkest of times (800-1200 AD) people of Ethiopia chiseld away some thousand metric tons of granite and build 11 churches out of pure stone.
And we oughta believe this?

Sorry, but archeology again sells us nonsense….

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By: Marianne Nolan https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-eastern-world/rock-hewn-churches-of-lalibela/#comment-14304 Tue, 05 Jun 2018 16:24:27 +0000 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/?p=45137#comment-14304 Only a few of the slides display as you browse through them. I really wanted to see an inside shot!

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By: mj25 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-eastern-world/rock-hewn-churches-of-lalibela/#comment-11386 Fri, 17 Feb 2017 15:09:10 +0000 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/?p=45137#comment-11386 Who was King Lalibela? Why were these churches constructed? How long has monotheism (Judaism & Christianity) been practiced in Ethiopia? How does Ethiopian Christianity differ from Western practice?

This article fails to answer many basic questions. But in all fairness, Ethiopia’s rich religious history deserves an encyclopedia of its own.

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By: brisam https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-eastern-world/rock-hewn-churches-of-lalibela/#comment-10626 Tue, 13 Sep 2016 07:43:32 +0000 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/?p=45137#comment-10626 great

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By: William Greer https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-eastern-world/rock-hewn-churches-of-lalibela/#comment-10577 Fri, 26 Aug 2016 02:02:04 +0000 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/?p=45137#comment-10577 In your reference to the book “Who was Jesus?” why would you be so ill informed about the historical and human/divine Jesus? See the following for starters:
•writings by and about Jesus viz. P. Pilate
•Canonical Old and New Testaments
• resources from the Roman Catholic Church
•Josephus, Romano-Jewish historian
•Tacitus, Roman historian
•Pliny, the Younger
•et al

Check it out.
It may determine a place in Eternity.

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