The Scroll War: Why the Dead Sea Documents Vindicate Ethiopia, Not Rome

Cause Before Symptom - With Your Host James Carner

This show uncovers a silent but seismic war over Scripture—a war not waged with swords or kings, but with scrolls and canons. While the Western world clings to a 66-book Bible filtered through centuries of empire, politics, and Protestant pruning, the Dead Sea Scrolls speak with ancient tongues. Buried in caves and miraculously preserved, they reveal a broader, older, and more apocalyptic canon—one that aligns not with England’s King James Version but with Ethiopia’s enduring and Spirit-led Scriptures.

We journey into the very caves of Qumran, where books like Enoch, Jubilees, Sirach, Tobit, and Psalm 151 were copied and cherished, proving they were not marginal or mystical, but central to the faith of the remnant community—the very community from which John the Baptist and early Christians likely emerged. These books, discarded by Rome and ignored by the Reformers, live on in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the only branch of the global Church to never bow to empire.

This is not a debate about apocrypha—it’s a confrontation with the lie that the KJV is the final word. The Dead Sea Scrolls rip open the illusion, exposing the surgical edits of history and validating the Ethiopian canon as the ark of the original prophetic tradition. The scrolls confirm that the “lost books” were never lost to God—only hidden from empire.

This scroll war is not over parchment. It is over authority, identity, and revelation. And in this war, Ethiopia stands vindicated—not by opinion, but by scroll, by Spirit, and by time.