What do you think about the guys who say they found Christ's tomb and final resting place?

Question

and the tombs of his family?


*for me i think its nothing but a hoax....they showed the "writings" and it was all scribbles and lines that didn't look like anything*

*i believe the guy who said something about finding the bones of Jesus's "brother" is in court now...*

*im just wondering why these guys would try to ruin people's faith's and religions and such.

Answer 1

I feel it's a hoax. I had a thought that they may have found the tomb of Jesus' earthly family........okay, I can buy that.

I have at least four Williams, a couple of Toms and some Marys in my family, Jesus or Yeshua was a pretty common name at the time.

I'm not a bit worried. I look forward to watching the documentary and I don't expect to have my faith shaken one bit.

Answer 2

They are playing on the gullibility of the public, just as in the Middle Ages, people sold thousands of pieces of the "original cross". Even if I did not believe in the resurrection of Jesus, even if I believed he was just a man like anyone else, who married and had a child, I would not take such findings seriously. There is no way they could verify whether that was his bones, or his families bones. Even if the names Jesus, Mary and Judas were actually written on the tomb, those were among the more common names of the time. Several Mary's and several Judas's were among Jesus' followers, and one or two Jesus's are found in the book of Acts.
Also, if He had been buried with a wife and son, and the body had been available, don't you think the priests and the pharisees would have been quick to produce all this evidence?
However, it's a great money-making scheme. It's just that I find that people who claim that Christians are too gullible, can be awfully --- gullible!

Answer 3

I'll say that this assertion that someone found the tombs of Jesus and is family is as likely as the Bible or the existence of Jesus, as the son of some God. They are both probably hoaxes. It amazes me that you can reconcile your logic. You believe a highly improbable and unlikely "truth" - the existence of a God and Jesus - based on a 2000 year old BOOK, yet you don't believe someone could find the tomb of Jesus because the writing is scribbled? Wow, that is truly willful blindness/ignorance.

Answer 4

Jesus raised from the dead. There were other Yeshuas at that time in a Yeshua was buried. The Yahweh Yeshua Messiah is at the right hand of God the Father today.

But it would be nice if you gave a source of your information, because I haven't heard anything about finding Jesus burial place.

I also, believe the burial box holding the remains of the brother of Jesus Christ is a true burial box. I don't believe the Shroud of Turin is the cloth of Jesus Christ. Jesus head wrap was separate from His body wrap. And the bleeding from the nails in his hands & feet & the pierce in his side & from the crown of thorns should be present.


If I read the upper answer correctly, there are two burial boxes with no remains in them. One is Mariamana and the other Judas, son of Jesus. That would be written in Hebrew on the burial boxes. I don't see Jesus burial box? Being a son of Yeshua. That would indicate being born of God. Jesus Christ is a "High Father" also, as prophecied in the OT prophecies.

Answer 5

A big message of Christianity is that Christ left an empty tomb - and shocks of all shocks - guess what they're looking at? An empty tomb - even if it is a hoax, I just love that crucial detail!

Answer 6

The world is trying to confuse the truth. They think that if they show enough 'evidence' then Jesus will just go away.
Not so. Jesus is HERE TO STAY!
He is the same yesterday, today and forever.
He is the One True God.
He is Alpha and Omega. The beginning and the End.
Those who reject Him do so at their own peril.

Answer 7

(for those playing the game, I'm drinking)

I prefer to see the documentary before judging it. Personally, from the interviews I've seen and what I've read, it is going to be interesting. How versed are you in Hebrew and Aramaic?
Seriously, this is THE most asked question of the week.. let's just see what evidence they present before snapping to judgment.

Answer 8

The Jesus they're looking for never existed so..

Yeah, it's a hoax. Wait, it's not a hoax.. they probably found someone's tomb whose name happened to be Jesus..

So what?

Answer 9

Feb. 26, 2007, 2:11PM
James Cameron's Lost Tomb of Christ faces criticism


By KAREN MATTHEWS
Associated Press

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NEW YORK — Filmmakers and researchers on Monday unveiled two ancient stone boxes they said may have once contained the remains of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, but several scholars derided the claims made in a new documentary as unfounded and contradictory to basic Christian beliefs.

"The Lost Tomb of Jesus," produced by Oscar-winning director James Cameron and scheduled to air March 4 on the Discovery Channel, argues that 10 small caskets discovered in 1980 in a Jerusalem suburb may have held the bones of Jesus and his family.

One of the caskets even bears the title, "Judah, son of Jesus," hinting that Jesus may have had a son, according to the film.

"There's a definite sense that you have to pinch yourself," Cameron said Monday at a news conference. He told NBC'S "Today" show earlier that statisticians found "in the range of a couple of million to one" in favor of the documentary's conclusions about the caskets, or ossuaries.

Simcha Jacobovici, the Toronto filmmaker who directed the film, said that a name on one of the ossuaries — "Mariamene" — offers evidence that the tomb is that of Jesus and his family. In early Christian texts, "Mariamene" is the name of Mary Magdalene, he said.

The very fact that Jesus had an ossuary would contradict the Christian belief that he was resurrected and ascended to heaven.

Most Christians believe Jesus' body spent three days at the site of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem's Old City. The burial site identified in Cameron's documentary is in a southern Jerusalem neighborhood nowhere near the church.

In 1996, when the British Broadcasting Corp. aired a short documentary on the same subject, archaeologists challenged the claims. Amos Kloner, the first archaeologist to examine the site, said the idea fails to hold up by archaeological standards but makes for profitable television.

"They just want to get money for it," Kloner said.

Shimon Gibson, one of three archaeologists who first discovered the tomb in 1980, said Monday of the film's claims: "I'm skeptical, but that's the way I am. I'm willing to accept the possibility."

The film's claims, however, have raised the ire of Christian leaders in the Holy Land.

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.

"I don't think that Christians are going to buy into this," Pfann said. "But skeptics, in general, would like to see something that pokes holes into the story that so many people hold dear."

"How possible is it?" Pfann said. "On a scale of one through 10 — 10 being completely possible — it's probably a one, maybe a one and a half."

Pfann is even unsure that the name "Jesus" on the caskets was read correctly. He thinks it's more likely the name "Hanun." Ancient Semitic script is notoriously difficult to decipher.

Kloner also said the filmmakers' assertions are false. "The names on the caskets are the most common names found among Jews at the time," he said.

William Dever, an expert on near eastern archaeology and anthropology, who has worked with Israeli archeologists for five decades, said specialists have known about the ossuaries for years.

"The fact that it's been ignored tells you something," said Dever, professor emeritus at the University of Arizona. "It would be amusing if it didn't mislead so many people."

Osnat Goaz, a spokeswoman for the Israeli government agency responsible for archaeology, said the Antiquities Authority agreed to send two ossuaries to New York, but they did not contain human remains. "We agreed to send the ossuaries, but it doesn't mean that we agree with" the filmmakers, she said.


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Associated Press Writer Marshall Thompson contributed to this report from Jerusalem and AP Religion Writer Rachel Zoll contributed from New York.

Answer 10

Who knows? They could be right. I don't believe Jesus was a god, so he must be buried somewhere.

PS: "Writings" in Aramaic would look like "scribbles and lines" to you. Do you think they wrote in English back then?

If you really have faith, why would this ruin it? Maybe you need to take a closer look at your so called faith.