Jesus' tomb????

Question

The news says that they have found jesus' tomb, now if that is true then some parts of the bible are false and that isnt very good for a true christian beliver, what do you think?

Answer 1

Jesus is truth itself He said He is the Resurrection, I believe Him

Answer 2

Its sad to think that people believe that they have found the tomb of Jesus. In biblical form he was raise up to the heavens in body and spirit, now I don't believe that but, what I do believe is that Jesus was a real man who as well was a very nice and kind person who brought hope and faith to those who were in need. Because of this people began to follow him and after his death, they wrote books about him and one thing you all should keep in mind is that man has the power to over exaggerate. Still he had followers, now you would think that a man of great importance would have something better than his name on his tomb, a title like many other great people in the world. What would that title most likely be? Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, the Messiah. So until they do find a tomb with such names, this tomb is only some guy who's name is Jesus and thats all. Same gos for the Mary and Jonas that are in the tomb as well, those names are common back in that era.

Answer 3

It is necessary for a person to be extremely deluded in order to believe even half of what is in the Bible,especially the whole ressurection myth which with even a little research on the part of the "believer" they would see was simply borrowed from earlier religions,therefore the tomb would mean nothing to them since proof has nothing to do with their beliefs. The proof that the ressurection is a myth is evident without the tomb,the only mention of the event in any historical record is in the writings of his followers regardless of the fact that a man rising from the dead would be the biggest news in any society in any day and age,and the fact that it very closely follows other ressurection myths which only reinforces the fact that the ressurection was a concept used to bring in followers of other religions. That said no Christian or at least very few would have their "faith" shaken by proof.

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Answer 4

Jesus and his relatives did not have a family tomb. They were a Galilee family with no ties in Jerusalem. The Talpiot tomb belonged to a middle-class family from the 1st century CE. Cameron is looking to top The Davinci Code and The Passion of Christ.

Answer 5

first of all its a claim james cameron is a movie producer, not an archeologist, a scholar, or a theologean he went to school for physics. second of all the name jeshua (jesus) was very common in those times much like kevin or Joe. Third if they can even carbon date it and DNA test it to a man named Jesus of that time period they cant prove its him without an actually DNA test from the proven eschatological historical Jesus. what they will try to prove in the DNA test is that the a the bones of the jesus figure are not blood relation to the marijaim (mary) to prove evidence of marriage. even if this proves to be correct reffer to point 2. fourth although the coincedences are close I can stand most suredly this two shall pass

Answer 6

It's silly.They found this tomb in 1980.If it had any relevance it would of been "Published" many years ago.It is almost Easter and every year the News picks up stories that are critical of Jesus as they do at Christmas.

Answer 7

1) Nothing is new here: scholars have known
about the ossuaries ever since March of 1980, so
this is old news recycled. The general public
learned when the BBC filmed a documentary on them
in 1996, and the “findings” tanked again.. James
Tabor’s book, The Jesus Dynasty, also made a big
fuss over the Talpiot tombs more recently, and
now James Cameron (The Titanic) and Simcha
Jacobovici have climbed aboard the sensationalist
bandwagon as well. Another book comes out today,
equally as worthless as the previous.

2) All the names – Yeshua (Joshua, Jesus),
Joseph, Maria, Mariamene, Matia, Judah, and Jose
-- are extremely common Jewish names for that
time and place, and thus nearly all scholars
consider that these names are merely
coincidental, as they did from the start. Some
scholars dispute that “Yeshua” is even one of the
names. One out of four Jewish women at that
time, for example, were named Maria. There are
21Yeshuas cited by Josephus, the first-century
Jewish historian, who were important enough to be
recorded by him, with many thousands of others
that never made history. The wondrous
mathematical odds hyped by Jacobovici that these
names must refer to Jesus and his family are
simply playing by numbers and lying by statistics.

3) There is no reason whatever to equate “Mary Magdalene” with “Mariamene,”
as Jacobovici claims. And so what if her DNA is
different from that of “Yeshua” ? That
particular “Mariamme” (as it is usually spelled
today) could indeed have been the wife of that
particular “Yeshua,” who was certainly not Jesus.

4) Why in the world would the “Jesus Family” have
a burial site in Jerusalem, of all places, the
very city that crucified Jesus? Galilee was
their home. In Galilee they could have had such
a family plot, not Judea. Besides all of which,
church tradition and the earliest Christian
historian, Eusebius of Caesarea, are unanimous in
reporting that Mary, the mother of Jesus, died in
Ephesus, where the apostle John, faithful to his
commission from Jesus on the cross, had accompanied her.

5) The “Jesus Family” simply could not have
afforded the large crypt uncovered at Talpiot,
which housed, or could have housed, 200 ossuaries.

6) If this were Jesus’ family burial site, what
is Matthew doing there – if indeed “Matia” is thus to be translated?

7) How come there is no tradition whatever –
Christian, Jewish, or secular -- that any part of
the Holy Family was buried at Jerusalem?

8) Please note the extreme bias of the director
and narrator, Simcha Jacobovici. The man is an
Indiana-Jones-wannabe who oversensationalizes
anything he touches. You may have caught him on
his TV special regarding The Exodus, in which the
man “explained” just about everything that still
needed proving or explaining in the Exodus
account in the Old Testament! It finally became
ludicrous, and now he’s doing it again, though in
reverse: this time attacking the Scriptural
record. – As for James Cameron, how do you
follow the success of The Titanic? Well, with an
even more “titanic” story. He should have known
better, and the television footage of the two
making their drastic statements on Monday,
February 26 was disgusting, and their subsequent
claim that they respected Jesus nauseating.

9) Even Israeli authorities, who – were they
anti-Christian – might have used this “discovery”
to discredit Christianity, did not do so. Quite
the opposite. Joe Zias, for example, for years
the director of the Rockefeller Museum in
Jerusalem, holds Jacobovici’s claims up for scorn
and his documentary as “nonsense.” Those
involved in the project “have no credibility
whatever,” he added. – Amos Kloner, the first
archaeologist to examine the site, said the
conclusions in question fail to hold up by
archaeological standards “but make for profitable
television.” -- William Dever, one of America’s
most prominent archaeologists, said, “This would
be amusing if it didn’t mislead so many people.”

10) Finally, and most importantly, there is no
external literary or historical evidence whatever
that Jesus’ family was interred together in a
common burial place anywhere, let alone
Jerusalem. The evidence, in fact, totally
controverts all this in the case of Jesus: all
four Gospels, the letters of St. Paul, and the
common testimony of the early church state that
Jesus rose from the dead, and did not leave his
bones behind in any ossuary, as the current sensationalists claim.

Bottom line: this is merely naked hype, baseless
sensationalism, and nothing less than a media fraud, “more junk on Jesus.”

Answer 8

I think Christians need to stop blowing this discovery entirely out of proportion.

No one, not even James Cameron, has made the claim that these are 100% certainly the bones of the Jesus involved in Christianity. At most, there is strong statistical evidence.

The DNA evidence doesn't say this is the Jesus of Christianity, it strictly shows relationships between the human remains in the tomb.

People need to sit down, shut up, watch the documentary, pay attention to who says what and what their credentials are, THEN discuss it and come to their own conclusions. All this speculation and panicking is totally pointless.

Answer 9

yes, it is true james found a tomb that had strangely already been discovered in the 80's and found Biblical names on the burial boxes, and on the next special james is overwhelmed by how many graves Jesus has in Mexico!

Answer 10

Faith is believing. We know that science has been trying for years to disprove creation and Christianity etc and have never been able to. In fact, every scientist that mapped out the DNA of humans have since become Christians. They were amazed at the complexity of human DNA and admit there has to be a God.