christianity a hoax?

Question

i just saw on cnn that it can be scientificly proven that christianity is an outrite hoax what would you do if you actually found out this was the TRUTH would you then submit to one god or would you continue with your makebelieve religion

Answer 1

Christians have faith we believe that Christianity is truth a true Christian will never stop believing.

Answer 2

...How does one scientifically prove or disprove that Jesus of Nazareth walked the earth? It is out of the hands of science, and is within the realm of eyewitness accounts and history.
...Jesus of Nazareth was a real, historical person who walked the earth. He is witnessed by the Bible, secular historians of His day, and by millions of changed lives down through the centuries.
...He made some claims that were incredible - He claimed to be God, and to be the only way to God. He was either a liar, a lunatic, a legend, or the Lord, as He said.
...Each of us must decide who He is - I have believed on Him as Lord, and many do not - this is deciding against Him, and if He is who He said, this has eternal consequences that cannot be changed after death.
...Questions like the one above (Christianity a hoax?) are all hypothetical in nature - this person should deal with real issues, like who Jesus is, and what does He expect of us. When they use that word "if", quite often it is some new twisted yarn, and its goal is to somehow discredit Jesus and the Scriptures, and destroy the faith of some. And these folks either refused to look at the evidence of Christianity, or don't know it.
...Is the one who created this question going to continue with make-believe questions and wild doctrines, or will he deal with the eternal issues and his/her relationship with God? Will he risk his eternal well-being by assuming Christianity is a hoax, or will he look at the evidence?
...I pray he will look at the evidence - God loves us, and He sacrificed His Son to prove it.
...I urge all to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and be saved. (Acts 16:31)
...Whosoever will, may come.

Answer 3

I don't think a hoax can survive 2000 plus years and remain almost completely unchanged. Sure, there are many Christian religions that are far-fetched interpretations of the Gospel but the biggest group of Christians are the fundamental ones such as protestants.
Besides my faith comes from the fact that I see God's power in my life. My brain can't manufacture the incredible peace that He gives me. God is REAL and His name is Jesus.

Answer 4

Proving that Christianity (or any religion) is a hoax is the easy part. It's getting people to be open minded to reason that's the hard part.

People of faith are that way because they WANT to believe in god- which, in itself, is pretty easy to understand.

Try reading 'the end of faith' by Sam Harris as a start. Plenty of good, exceptionally well written and researched books out there that prove, far beyond a shadow of a doubt, that religions are manifestations of humanity. But- you've got to want to read them.

Answer 5

If that is in the case..then all the other religions that came after Christianity will be a hoax as well..because they contain the same teachings as well.

Answer 6

particular , Christianity is incredibly a hoax . on a similar time as many human beings locate convenience in faith , in certainty nonetheless that it incredibly is the biggest sham in the history of humankind . faith is the terrific curse ever perpetrated on mankind . Prayers are rank superstition and what outcomes you look to get from prayers are basically coincidental . Prayers are what you assert to your self because of the fact no one is listening to them besides . it is your subconscious recommendations that acts in your self - confirmation or what you call prayers . besides , non secular theory is destructive on your recommendations because of the fact it stifles self sustaining and severe questioning . basically because of the fact a theory is well-known doesn' t unavoidably make it applicable . A majority basically skill that each and every of the fools are on a similar ingredient .

Answer 7

You know, the funny thing is that I could post an internet page that says it's scientifically proven that the human body gets it's energy from sawdust and as long as someone is uneducated they will believe it right? Come on people-anyone can say anything about anything. Let's get the CORRECT education.

Answer 8

OK, Sean, try to grasp this fact: What human "science" can or cannot prove doesn't really matter to God's people because we have direct spiritual proof from God Himself. Can you understand that? It's only you atheists who are always demanding physical proof. We Christians have all the proof we need, and it's not of this world.

Answer 9

If someone could prove to me that Christianity is a hoax, I would go back to being a Deist.

Answer 10

oh right right right. lets see. cuz its so scientific to assume that they can find the dna of a man who was like all the commoners, going to certain places at certain times each day, having hudreds follow your every footstep and people take your stuff as your own.

and it's also scientific to assume that a guy with a common name most definately married and was burried with a woman of a very common name.

ever wonder why scientists waste their time trying to disprove Jesus rather than curing diseases, improving aid technology and fixing global warming? the scientific world needs to reassess its priorities...

Answer 11

No,this discovery has no 'scientifically proven' that Christianity is a hoax.
It was actually discovered over 20 years ago,it's only now that people are paying attention to it.
The most popular names in that era for males were:
Simon
Joseph
Eleazar
Judah
John
Jesus
Hananiah
Jonathan
Matthew
Manaen/Menahem
The most popular female names for that era were:
Mary/Mariamne
Salome
Shelamzion
Martha

In that era,21% of Jewish women were named Mary!

There is no other DNA sample of Jesus or His family to compare the remains with!Allthe DNA proves,is that the ones in the tomb were related!

Jesus' family were not even from Jerusalem.Jospeh's home he grew up in was in Bethlehem,and Jesus and his family lived in Galilee.Why would they be buried in Jerusalem,where they had no connection?

There is absolutely no evidence supporting the idea that Jesus was married or had a child,biblical or non-biblical.

The ossuaries that mention Mary,do not have any other descriptive features.They simply say 'Mary'.

The 'James son of Joseph,brother of Jesus' ossuary,which the makers of this film used to try and back up their claim,has been proven to be a forgery.

The main scholar who is the source for the story does not think it is Jesus' tomb.

Says Bar-Ilan University Professor Amos Kloner,"..those were the most common names found among Jews in the first centuries BCE and CE"

Prof. Amos Kloner, the Jerusalem District archeologist who officially oversaw the work at the tomb in 1980 and has published detailed findings on its contents, on Saturday night dismissed the claims. "It makes a great story for a TV film," he told The Jerusalem Post. "But it's impossible. It's nonsense." “"They just want to get money for it,"
Prof. Kloner said there was no way the tomb housed the Holy Family.
The senior Israeli archaeologist who thoroughly researched the tombs after their discovery, and at the time deciphered the inscriptions, cast serious doubt on it.
"It is just not possible that a family who came from Galilee, as the New Testament tells us of Joseph and Mary, would be buried over several generations in Jerusalem."

Kloner said the names found on the ossuaries were common, and the fact that such apparently resonant names had been found together was of no significance. He added that "Jesus son of Joseph" inscriptions had been found on several other ossuaries over the years."There is no likelihood that Jesus and his relatives had a family tomb," Kloner said. "They were a Galilee family with no ties in Jerusalem. The Talpiot tomb belonged to a middle-class family from the 1st century CE."

"Archeological evidence shows that chances of these being the actual
burials of the Holy Family are almost nil," said Motti Neiger, a spokesman for the
Antiquities Authority.


"Simcha has no credibility whatsoever," says Joe Zias, who was the curator for anthropology and archeology at the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem from 1972 to 1997 and personally numbered the Talpiot ossuaries. "He's pimping off the Bible … He got this guy Cameron, who made 'Titanic' or something like that—what does this guy know about archeology? I am an archeologist, but if I were to write a book about brain surgery, you would say, 'Who is this guy?' People want signs and wonders. Projects like these make a mockery of the archeological profession."

Stephen Pfann, a biblical scholar at the University of the Holy Land in Jerusalem who was interviewed in the documentary, said the film's hypothesis holds little weight. "How possible is it?" he said. "On a scale of one through 10 - 10 being completely possible , it's probably a one, maybe a one and a half."


The official report written by Prof. Kloner found nothing remarkable in the discovery. The cave, it said, was probably in use by three or four generations of Jews from the beginning of the Common Era. It was disturbed in antiquity, and vandalized.

In short,the archaeological world (and that of serious scholars) is laughing at this movie.They do not take it seriously,or believe in it,in the slightest.