I guess that means he was just a regular old dude after all. Ahahahhahahahabwahahahahaaa!
2007-02-26 02:23:40 · 8 answers · asked by mutterhals 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Filmmaker James Cameron is claiming he and some archeologists found the tomb of Jesus’s family. All the casket-like things called ossuaries are empty. I wonder what the archeologists were thinking when they found an ossuary with Jesus’s name on it. I can imagine the moment they removed the lid and looked in. If it were me, I’d wonder if I was going to see one of the following:
1. Nothing
2. Decomposed stuff
3. Jesus sitting up and saying, “What in Dad’s name took you so long?”
If you put an ordinary guy in an ossuary for 2,000 years, he’d clearly be dead. But if I were opening that ossuary I’d be wondering if maybe someone put Jesus in there after he died but before he arose. And maybe it’s hard to get out once you get in. I’d be worried that Jesus arose inside the stone box, and he’d be totally pissed that no one let him out until now.
I realize that this would not be the most rational worry in the world. But I like to base my worries on an expected value calculation. So for example, a 90% chance of getting a sliver would worry me about the same as a .000001% chance of a nuclear bomb going off in the backyard. In this ossuary example, I’d be looking at maybe a 2% chance of waking up an angry Jesus. I say that’s worth a worry.
If Jesus was in there, and sat up when I took the lid off, I’d first try to judge how angry he looked. If he had that money-changers-in-the-temple look, I’d go with a joke, like “Ha ha! Turn the other cheek!” Or maybe I’d try to explain to him that the extra suffering was extra good for humanity, and after all, that’s his job. Then I’d say, “Hey, I don’t like my job either, but you don’t see me complaining all the time.”
I know that some of you will say that if Jesus could move that big rock that was allegedly in front of his tomb in the traditional telling of his life, he’d have no trouble removing an ossuary lid. But he wasn’t supposed to be in an ossuary in the first place, so obviously if this ossuary is genuine, some of the details of the story were wrong. And if God let Jesus be crucified, it’s not a huge stretch of the imagination to think he’d let him stay in a stone box for 2,000 years. It makes sense to save your coolest miracle for when it’s needed most. And I think you’ll agree that this would be a good time for a messiah. And if you were God, you’d want James Cameron attached to this production. So it makes sense to me.
That’s why I’d be a crappy archeologist. I’d be afraid to open anything.
2007-03-01 01:41:02 · answer #1 · answered by bpgveg14 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well if is in fact true It will really only prove he was a human that lived and die which is pretty much already know in my personal opinion I think he was anything but regular, and I found more reasons for me to follow him if he was a man that also had to struggle with marriage, fatherhood and all the aspect of this earthly life that i have to struggle than if he was able to do all he did just because of his divine nature, because if you think about it if you are god you can do anything, but as a mortal been able to transcend and leave and example like he did is for my the ultimate reason to follow him.
2007-02-28 13:59:31 · answer #2 · answered by DOUG V 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The body they found was not buried in the manner that the Jews practiced 2,000 years ago, nor according to the burial details given by witnesses and recorded in the Bible.
2007-02-26 10:27:37 · answer #3 · answered by Hammer 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No.
Jesus Dynasty by James Tabor, non-Christian academic who believes Christ was a person and has been looking for the ossuaries of Christ.
2007-02-26 10:28:29 · answer #4 · answered by jshbrnd 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah, but it's a HUGE if.
How does one prove that anyway? DNA testing won't prove it.
It took them 17 years to decipher the transcriptions, so how do we know they got it right?
It'd be nice to be able to say that and stop all this resurrection nonsense, but honestly, do you really believe that any christian is going to lose their faith based on such flimsy material?
2007-02-26 10:27:34 · answer #5 · answered by Kallan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dude, how many times will this be asked today?
Most archaeologists have said this is bunk.
2007-02-26 10:26:38 · answer #6 · answered by Jay 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
"Ahahahhahahahabwahahahahaaa!"
Um...dude? You ok? Did you collapse on your keyboard or something?
2007-02-26 10:26:43 · answer #7 · answered by Open Heart Searchery 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=A9FJuitH_OJFfO4A3QPsy6IX?qid=20070226063737AAeYIDP
2007-02-26 10:27:20 · answer #8 · answered by Loathing 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋