Did anyone hear about James Cameron supposedly finding Jesus' tomb along with his family in Jerusalem?

Question

What do you think about this, and do you believe it to be true? If so, why, and how do you explain it to be true, and it's contridiction to the Bible.

Answer 1

I'm not a christian, but: No -It's false or erroneous .There is no honest point of reference to recognize to whom those bones belong. Since 1980 these bones where discovered and studied; Others have search for the validation of these hypotesis and found no connection to established discoveries. Notice that that the idea of Cameron looks a lot like the DaVinci Code story issue...But other History experts have debunked the Davinci Code hypotesis! So now dealing with a crosslinking of ungrounded ideas that neglect good work from others. What this is sounds more like speculation...There is no database to confirm Jesus identity (have you search an found Christ DNA in a database beyond doubt that it came from Christ?) The carbon-13 reach the age but not the identity, and the names are too common to be used as proof. Many people thought they were the Messiah. Some expert says translation is wrong here. And details about the languaje used in the ossuaries are conflictive We have to realize that the completely detailed information about what happened to JesusChrist body after death is lost. Not to enter resurrection debate over here, what happend to Christ after death is mistery to moder science.What Cameron docummentary presents are
the bones of some "John and Jane Doe'S"; To say "it may have happened this way" doesn't equal to say "it really happened this way". Along the storyline, a plot will evolve with the intent to relife that which no one here alive really witness, bringing out-of-facts imaginations -False memories and vivid images are among the things that could confuse the audience... One more thing: Stop putting it asif you really have proof! conjetures and hypotesis aren't evidence..Serena...(above me ...the second to give you the answer in this page) have more details you should know...

Answer 2

He did find a tomb,but it is not that of Jesus and His family.
Even more problems with the ‘Jesus tomb’ are appearing.Critics (Christian and non-Christian) are disputing the film.

1.One of the ossuaries is in Hebrew, several in Aramaic, and one in Greek.Why would they be in different languages?The Jews at that time spoke Aramiac,including Jesus’ family,not Greek.This suggests a multi-generational tomb.
2.In addition,the names were extremely common.Jesus,Matthew,and Jospeh were in the top ten of used names in that era.The name Mary,was shared by over 21% of Jewish women.
3.Mary Magdalene was never called Mariamene.This name comes from a 4th century document called the ‘Gospel of Phillip’.Why trust a document written hundreds of years ,since we already have records of what the people who knew her called her? Also,the ‘Mary’ of the tomb,does not have anything about Migdal on the ossuary.It simply says Mary.
A big deal is made of DNA evidence.What happened?
4.Scientists were able to extract DNA from the remains in two of the caskets.What did this show? That the one in the ‘Mary’ caket and one in the ‘Jesus’ casket,were not maternally related.So,they’ve taken that finding,and made a big leap to come to the conclusion that ‘Mary’ and ‘Jesus’ were married.
5.Here we run into a few more problems.The tomb was found in Jerusalem.Joseph’s birthplace was Bethlehem,he lived in Nazareth,and died in Galilee.Why would he have bought a tomb in Jerusalme,a place where he had no connection? The tomb and ossuaries were also the type that only the rich would have been able to afford.
6.There is no evidence that shows Jesus as having a son,or being married.
7.They have to explain why there are three brothers of Jesus missing from the tomb: James, Judas and Simon,and then explain why a ‘Matthew’ never recorded as being part of Jesus’ family,was in the tomb.
8.The makers rely on the assumption that the earlier ‘James,son of Joseph,brother of Jesus’ ossuary,was taken from the same tomb as the ones in the film.For this to have happened,the earlier James ossuary must have been removed from the tomb after 1980.The problem? The earlier James ossuary,was photographed in the 1970’s.It could not have come from the tomb.
9..The next problem is statistical evidence.While calculating,they did a few things that dramatically altered the result.They removed the names ‘Matthew’ and ‘Judah’,yet kept in ‘Mariamne’,based on the ‘Gospel of Phillip’.

This is what the experts had to say about the find:

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,"
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.
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."


http://www.extremetheology.com/
http://benwitherington.blogspot.com/

Answer 3

The Bible says that Jesus' body was missing. Mary Magdalene was upset about it. Therefore, he supposedly dragged it up into heaven with him. Plus, the tomb he was buried in was a Joseph of Arimithea plot. So it was donated by a friend. It wasn't a family plot so even if his body stayed put, the rest of the family wouldn't be there. I wonder what made him make that claim. How absurd. There's no way to test it. DNA can't be compared to anything and there are no written records of his death, other than what's in the Bible and maube some Gnostic texts and they deal with the spirituality of the event. Not the logistics.

Answer 4

Pasters write bible and sell it with meager price.
Christians Film producers are trying to sell Jesus pbuh. Shame on you o christians.

Allah says in Quran: Curse on those who write god's scriptures by their hands .. Curse on them what they earn
O Christians, do you really edit the book of God (bible) and earn from copy rights and deserve wrath and curse of Allah?

Answer 5

John and Mary are common names now and common names then. It's not Jesus Christ of Nazareth. He rose from the dead and ascended to heaven. He now sits at the right hand of the Father interceding for us.

http://www.chick.com/information/general/salvation.asp

Answer 6

Seems to me like it's another one of Cameron's publicity stunts and attempts at rewriting history. Titanic, anyone?

Answer 7

yeah i heard about it, could be true. haven't heard much about it to debate it though