What is the importance of finding Jesus's tomb?

Answer 1

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 2

When the disciples found the EMPTY tomb they knew Jesus had been resurrected.

John 20:3 So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. Then Simon Peter, who was behind him, arrived and went into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, as well as the burial cloth that had been around Jesus' head. The cloth was folded up by itself, separate from the linen. Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed.

Answer 3

No importance at all. Christianity does not depend on any historical verificiation or disverification or anything about Jesus. He is a symbolic figure adopted by the early architects of Christianity to inherit the staus of Osiris, his predecessor by thousands of years.

Christianity would be real no matter whether or not you call him by the title of Osiris, that Son of God who died, was resurrected, and is remembered in the eating of bread as his body and wine as his blood.

In Phrygia, the worship of Osiris became the religion of Attis with Cybele as the predecessor of the Virgin Mary and of the Church as the Bride of Christ. When Paul found his Christians at Galatia in Phrygia keeping the holidays of that old indigenous religion he was not pleased - Galatians 4:10.

In Greece, Osiris became Dionysus and the sacred meal of bread and wine is represented on some vases which exist to this day in museums such as the Louvre.

In Palestine, the figure of Osiris the Mediator between God and Man, the sacrificial Redeemer, was attached to the figure of Y'Shua ben Yosef bar N'zret, known to the Romans who killed him as Jesus.

The finding of his alleged tomb has nothing to do with the reality that Christianity was successfully established with him as its poster boy. Whatever validity Christianity has rests on the church, the body of all baptized persons, and not at all on any book or on allegedly historical artifacts.

Answer 4

Christians have know about the empty tomb for a very long time.. Jim

Answer 5

It will never happen!
Jesus DID NOT die on the cross, but lived to a very old age.

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Answer 6

There is a great importance to it for the movie makers. To those of us who know it is a hoax and wistful thinking it is of no importance to us at all. People should know Christians are not so gullible as all that nonsense. God still loves you and your Christian brothers and sisters still love you and welcome you into the open arms of our Lord Jesus Christ. God bless.

Answer 7

well it would prove that jesus never risen as they claimed his body wasnt in the tomb. it would go against some of the christian beliefs. however it would prove that jesus existed as a man.

Answer 8

It would throw the corner stone of Christianity, i.e. the Resurrection into doubt.

Answer 9

Drink.

It would prove that Jesus was a man and he died.

Even if it is proven Christians will just say that it was jesus glorified body that went to heaven and his old beat up body stayed on Earth.

Answer 10

Since he was raised from the dead, none that I can think of. I can't even think of a way to identify it.