What do you think about the new findings of Jesus's body?

Question

What do you think? Fake or real?
If it is real how do you think it will effect the religion?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070226/sc_nm/jesus_tomb_dc;_ylt=ArWrZAogtu3v9QkIxa4zHAYDW7oF

Answer 1

Perhaps a lot more true researches are done to the whole affair by the Real Truth Seeking and Honest people.

There is one Tomb of Jesus in Kashmir in India also.

It is said that Jesus was a disciple of a Buddhist during His Lost Years somewhere in this region and He propagated the principles of Buddha in the West in a veiled manner suiting their culture.

Finally after resurrection He came back to Kashmir in India and achieved Nirvana over there. Still the Tomb of Jesus is there in Kashmir.

In principle Christianity and Buddhism have a lot of similarities. This actually strengthens this arguement very much.

Any way True and Honest reserches by true Truth Seekers are necessary to the whole affair to reduce confusion and chaoes.

Answer 2

Honestly, according to the article it seems like speculation. There is going to need to be a lot more research done to prove anything.

At this point I do not see it making a major impact on the Christian religion. It may raise some questions among Christians about ones persoanl faith, but questions are good. Everyone needs to reevaluate their faith from time to time.

I'm sure there will be people who will jump on the bandwagon and say this totally disproves the resurrection, but there is obviously very little physical evidence at this point to even make such a claim.

The fact that Jesus may have had a child is a whole other discussion. Personally, I don't see this as being unrealistic. He was a young jewish boy and at the time people grew up and got married (well, usually the marriage was arranged). Personally, whether or not Jesus had a child is irrelevant to the basic beliefs of Christianity. Perhaps, this could be why there may have been no mention of Jesus's possible marriage and child--if there even was one.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

I do deeply respect and realize the impact this is having on many followers of Jesus.
I am reminded in spirit the words of his teachings.
What of the teaching that flesh and blood can not inherate the kingdom of god? How then could Jesus have taken his physical body with him?
Yes I know the arguement that his body was changed and glorified, so what happened to the old body?
We know that physical resurection is possible because it happened before Jesus. Jesus himself we are told resurected several people one being his beloved Lazurus.
Do we believe that all of these people do not have a second death?
How would that even touch the teaching of the master that it is assigned to all men to die once?
How does one put on the new and release the old?
I for myself believe that the old was left behind.
It also does not matter to myself if Jesus physical body still remains.
The reason for this is that we are to worship in spirit and truth.
We can not worship in the physical body.
The physical is not what we are concerned about when it comes to everlasting life.
Life to us is in spirit, not in body.
I dare say that many of us and even more so those who have bodies that are less than desirable, would want to keep that body forever.
If you argue that it can be fixed and changed into a better body, well, we can do this now.

Just my thoughts of faith, that it matters not of the physical body of the saviour, it matters more in the words he brought us from the Father.
Mehlisue

Answer 5

It's pretty ridiculous.

(1) The names in question were as common then as the most common names we have (and, not surprisingly, the names in the two eras share commonalities).

(2) 2000 year old DNA from a hot, dry region? Unlikely.

(3) What are they testing the alleged DNA against? The blood on the Shroud of Turin? The people in France who claim to be Jesus' descendants?

Answer 6

I agree with the archaeologist who calls it a publicity stunt.
Not only for the reasons he states, but also because the bible explicitly says that Jesus was buried not in a family tomb, but in a borrowed tomb. Furthermore the Bible states that Jesus did rise from the dead and was seen by more than five hundred people for some forty days after He rose. There is in addition to this extra-biblical evidence of this historical event.

Answer 7

Well it isn't fake. You can debate rather it is what it looks like, but it kinda does look that way.

I don't think that it will have a big effect because there is wiggle room, but it gives us atheists one more thing to torment Christians with. They just hate it every time Anthropologists and Paleontologists go out and start digging because it is almost always bad news.

Answer 8

Without DNA to compare, it will be quite impossible to ever know for sure. And it shoudn't really matter anyway. Christians believe that Jesus ascended to Heaven with his body intact, and non-Christians do not believe it. An entire belief system would not change because of a simple archaelogical finding.

Answer 9

other archeologists have stated that these tombs can hold up to two hundred people from across several generations, and those names were common ones in the period, so there's no telling if it was the real remains of the person we now refer to as jesus or some other person who had the same name.

Answer 10

The names of Jesus, Mary, Joseph, Judah, Abraham are all common names in that area at the time of Jesus Christ. Even if it were true, it just proves God more and more. How. Because when Jesus resurrected He said to Mary Magdalene to touch Him not because He had not yet ascended to the Father, meaning He was still in spirit form He had not received His glorified body yet(His new body) just as we will all receive when Jesus returns