What do you believe regarding the remains of Jesus and his family being "discovered" and recovered?

Question

Today, James Cameron(a "movie director")announced that a documentary was being made regarding a finding of 10 coffins that were discovered in 1988 and the script read of the names of Jesus, Mary, Joseph and other family members and their remains. What Cameron also failed to announce is the fact that several other grave sites also had quite a few tombstones that had the name of someone named Jesus as well. It appears that Jesus was a popular name as well a fairly common name now particularly in Spanish culture. It appears that Cameron wants to dispute one of the basic tenet of Christianity that Jesus first of all was not buried where he was purported to be and that He did not rise from the grave. From what I gathered, he wants people to "entertain"--he is a movie guy after all--the notion that Christianity is based on a false premise. What do you think of this nonsense and does this affect what you believe or is this just another "scam" of sorts?

Answer 1

It's rubbish.
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.

Answer 2

While a lot of people are saying this is a scam, almost reflexivelly, I think we should look at it logically.

If we use scientific means to analyze the ossuaries are they from the correct time period? Are they forgeries?

If not, then are the names correct? If the names are correct and they match up to the same collective group of people we have read about, it seems rational. Especially if it is 3 or 4 names in this group. Then the odds of another group having the exact same father named this, son named that, mother named this, brother named that - the odds become astronomical that 2 families were thus - even with common names in the region.

Would it really change the Christian religion? I say no. It changes one tiny facet - that he wasn't taken up to heaven physically - that it was spiritually instead. Big frieken deal.

Let the flaming commence I'm sure...

Answer 3

It does not affect the way I feel at all! I always knew Jesus was just a man. Christianity is just a man made thought that happened to be believed by people who cannot think for themselves and for people who are afraid of living life to the full. I am happy about the discovery, even though they will figure out how to cover and distract. Media with the help of a lot of crazies! Sorry I mean christians.

Answer 4

Eh...he's the king of the world (so says he), he can do whatever he wants. I don't think it was THE Jesus so, who cares? He can get people to entertain that thought all he likes. Questioning is ok but he's bordering on offensive to some people. His movies are boring anyway. Terminator was his only good movie. He bores me now.

Answer 5

The person who originally discovered the ossuaries, didn't think that the name scraped onto the stone even looked like it said "Jesus", it was so illegible.

Answer 6

Rubbish, another false prediction. Effects me personally in No way but I fear for the ignorant one who buy into it. The world is always trying to disprove Christianity and has not been successful and it's to bad they have to go to such extremes.

Answer 7

iv been saying for years that Jesus is dead and never coming back,most of the bible is fiction,god made the sun and the earth, what about the other billions of galaxies, and trillions of planets and suns?

most Christians are so brainwashed , that if you had something that was 100% true, they would never believe it.

Answer 8

Just another crock of crap. Wow the biggest Lie of the Century already!

Answer 9

Not much made of it in 1988, so why now !!!
YOU FILL IN THE BLANKS

Answer 10

More HOGWASH - It is NOT Jesus