I can't believe discovery channel found the tomb and the rest of the bodies!
2007-02-27 00:09:14 · 17 answers · asked by Dama 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Nope.....
(News story.......)
Jesus tomb found, says film-maker
Jesus had a son named Judah and was buried alongside Mary Magdalene, according to a new documentary by Hollywood film director James Cameron.
It examines a tomb found near Jerusalem in 1980 which the film-makers say belonged to Jesus and his family.
The Oscar-winning director of Titanic says statistical analysis and DNA back the claim.
Archaeologists say that the burial cave is probably that of a Jewish family with similar names to that of Jesus.
Samples tested
Israeli construction workers building an apartment complex in Jerusalem's East Talpiot district first uncovered 10 2,000-year-old ossuaries - or limestone coffins - in a tomb in March 1980.
According to the Israel Antiquities Authority, six of those coffins were marked with the names Mary; Matthew; Jesua son of Joseph; Mary; Jofa (Joseph, Jesus' brother); and Judah son of Jesua.
It doesn't get bigger than this
James Cameron
Hollywood film director
The documentary The Lost Tomb of Jesus, produced by Mr Cameron, claims tests on samples from two of the coffins show Jesus and Mary Magdalene were likely to have been buried in them and were a couple.
The film-makers used this finding to claim that the coffin marked "Judah son of Jesua" contains the son of Jesus and Mary.
They say the discovery of the tomb does not mean that Jesus was not resurrected three days after his death - a key Christian belief.
Academic Stephen Pfann, a scholar at the University of the Holy Land in Jerusalem, said he did not expect Christians to accept the film's findings.
"I don't think that Christians are going to buy into this," said Mr Pfann, who was interviewed by the film-makers.
"But sceptics, in general, would like to see something that pokes holes into the story that so many people hold dear."
Findings refuted
Israeli archaeologist Amos Kloner, who was among the first to examine the tomb when it was first discovered, said the names marked on the coffins were very common at the time.
"I don't accept the news that it was used by Jesus or his family," he told the BBC News website.
"The documentary filmmakers are using it to sell their film."
Mr Cameron will show two of the coffins at a news conference in New York on Monday.
"It doesn't get bigger than this," he said in a press release.
"We've done our homework; we've made the case; and now it's time for the debate to begin."
Local residents said they were pleased with the attention the tomb has drawn.
"It will mean our house prices will go up because Christians will want to live here," one woman said.
(The facts behind the Hoax)
The only problem to their elaborate hoax is that the original Jewish professor who worked on the site, Amos Kloner, has already come forward to expose the claims as sheer nonsense.
Bar-Ilan University Prof. Amos Kloner, the Jerusalem District archeologist who officially oversaw the work at the tomb-cave 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."
"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."
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"It's a beautiful story but without any proof whatsoever," Professor Amos Kloner, who had published the findings of his research in the Israeli periodical Atigot in 1996, told DPA Friday.
"The names that are found on the tombs are names that are similar to the names of the family of Jesus," he conceded.
"But those were the most common names found among Jews in the first centuries BCE and CE," he added.
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Apparently, Cameron & Jacobovici have also, as with any elaborate hoax, some "evidence" by "world-renowned archeologists, statisticians and DNA specialists." I can hardly see how a DNA test would help. As with the "world-renowned archeologists," I would see why a second-hand archeologist would compromise his scholarship to make a buck.
2007-02-27 00:35:23 · answer #1 · answered by LENZ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read Luke 24:1-12 The stone had been rolled away. When the women went in, they did not find the body of Jesus.Then peter , upon hearing this, went to the tomb and found only the linen lying by itself. Once again, people are going to try to debunk anything and everything to do with the truth, concerning our savior Jesus Christ. ::::: Hey! lets put some bones in there and call them Jesus Christs bones!!! We'll say we can prove this with DNA and really mess with some minds and possibly steal the faith from some who are weak in thier faith or new believers !!!" Make sense?!!!! The whole idea of this really ticks me off! We know who wins though , don't we! Greater is he who is in me, than he who is in the world!
2007-02-27 09:33:12 · answer #2 · answered by Godlover 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO... IT'S JUST HYPE.
The bones were found 26 years ago and the archaeologists that have been examining them are the first to say that Cameron's story is nonsense... but in a made-for-the-masses TV documentary... it's just hype to get the gullible masses to watch it...
Every year around Easter... we see some of these stupid stories... last year it was the bones of St. John or James... don't remember which one.
2007-02-27 08:17:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
PT Barnum is credited with saying "there's a sucker born every minute". Apparently Cameron is trying to take that philosophy to the bank. Anyone who accepts his silly "documentary" knows zilch about archeology or 1st century history. Yet another example of someone trying to manufacture a controversy and make a buck. Pathetic...
2007-02-27 08:27:53 · answer #4 · answered by Seven 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe found some bones but not bones of Jesus Christ. That is just story from the author who wanted to gain more money on it. False story to destroy Jesus
2007-02-27 08:24:32 · answer #5 · answered by Jesus M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Discovery channel didn't find it. It was found when digging for an apartment building, and local archaeologists excavated and studied it. James Cameron came along and researched and filmed it. I don't know if it really is Jesus and his family or not, but it is very interesting.
2007-02-27 08:15:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Why is it so hard to believe? They find dinosaur bones! They were just looking in the wrong places! If he were buried in Jeresulem- where he was born as tradition suggests- the people he struggled to outrule would have thrown his body to the sea- that's why he was buried elsewhere!
And it doesn't say anything about the bones- just a large tomb with various coffins (boxes).
2007-02-27 08:15:55 · answer #7 · answered by canguroargentino 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
they did find bones and the name on the tomb does say jesus but i dont think its the jesus we all know. they were saying that jesus was a very common name in those times
2007-02-27 08:13:10 · answer #8 · answered by links305 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do not be deceived. He is risen! Please go to the following link for historical evidence about the resurrection of our Lord. You might have to click on the link on the page that follows if you are using Mozilla:
http://www.xenos.org/classes/papers/doub...
2007-02-27 10:21:08 · answer #9 · answered by Nels 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They like to think that they did and it may be that they have found the remains of someone called Jesus but I can assure you that it isn't the Jesus Christ.
2007-02-27 08:17:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋