Re: Consensus Truth

Pompeii was probably not known very well until they dug it all up and discovered what actually happened.

LOL!

Perfect example of why you are wrong.

What happened in Pompeii was already written down by Pliny the Younger. Only that skeptics like you considered it to be a work of fiction in the category of modern Hollywood's The Towering Inferno or The Day After Tomorrow. Then it was discovered that it was true.

Haha, as if they ever will if they contradict any of the central tenets of Christianity.

Non sequitur. The Scrolls are Essene, or at best, from other Jewish denominations, not early Christian. All of their content is Jewish; a great part of it is canonical in the Hebrew Bible. Sure enough, Christians got uncomfortable at the discovery originally because they didn't know this and supposed that writings preserved from around the first century CE may undermine Christian understandings of history. As it is, they don't. At worst, they provide an "absence of evidence" for Christianity. Jesus denialists do consider this to be important, and I think it is, but logically speaking, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Moreover, neither are the scrolls really "historical" writings. They are religious writings, and as such, they do not contain clear and direct reference to current events in the way chroniclers would write them. That was never their purpose. So it is not really very surprizing that they don't contain any reference to Jesus or to Christians. They don't refer to the occupying Romans either.