It's quite an honor to have my comment responded to by one such as yourself!
Thank you for not only taking the time to address "where do we go from here", but to offer your expert analogy that seems to address that which we know, that which we don't know; as well as those things that we may or may not ever know, lest the rocks care to further share some of their secrets and we are up to the task of searching them out. If not rocks, than surely metallic artifacts. Perhaps we will find them.
"I have no idea if we should ever locate them..." Interesting choice of words, or word, "should".
Should we or should we not, over such matters that could turn a more than a 2000 year old and supposedly known and accepted history over onto on its head!
It's a question that plagues me. Should we just leave it alone. Let it stand as it is, as nothing more than just another of countless never-to-be-certainly-knowns?
I tend to think - no, it's more than that - more than to just think. One must know, if ever truth is to be told. If ever the truth is to be known. Especially in those matters that pertain to God and Godly things, which is simply my opinion, entirely. And so it is that I firmly agree, no amount of "evidence" of that which was, and no matter how small/minute should be taken for granted or considered insignificant when it comes to matters that might cast a purer light upon true history..
So it is that we are left to this then: "there is always hope", and we will continue the quest, even so that we might know, won't we...
It's quite an honor to have my comment responded to by one such as yourself!
Thank you for not only taking the time to address "where do we go from here", but to offer your expert analogy that seems to address that which we know, that which we don't know; as well as those things that we may or may not ever know, lest the rocks care to further share some of their secrets and we are up to the task of searching them out. If not rocks, than surely metallic artifacts. Perhaps we will find them.
"I have no idea if we should ever locate them..." Interesting choice of words, or word, "should".
Should we or should we not, over such matters that could turn a more than a 2000 year old and supposedly known and accepted history over onto on its head!
It's a question that plagues me. Should we just leave it alone. Let it stand as it is, as nothing more than just another of countless never-to-be-certainly-knowns?
I tend to think - no, it's more than that - more than to just think. One must know, if ever truth is to be told. If ever the truth is to be known. Especially in those matters that pertain to God and Godly things, which is simply my opinion, entirely. And so it is that I firmly agree, no amount of "evidence" of that which was, and no matter how small/minute should be taken for granted or considered insignificant when it comes to matters that might cast a purer light upon true history..
So it is that we are left to this then: "there is always hope", and we will continue the quest, even so that we might know, won't we...
Most gratefully,
Carolyn