The Lost Tomb of Jesus?

Question

Why do all of the tombs say the names, like Maria or Matthew and Jesus' tomb says Jesus, Son of Joseph? Why doesn't it say just Jesus? Also, why does it not say Jesus, Son of God?

Answer 1

Ahhh! You were one of the people paying attention! Good job! I also had the same question.

Additionally, why didn't they compare the petina on the boxes that were discoved, still intact, in a tomb located virtually next door (down the pipe)? Because the petina from those boxes would have likely been identical to that found on the "Jesus" box. After all, it's the same soil!

Why was a Latin word scribed on a jewish burial box?

If one box was stolen from the dig site during excavation, doesn't this raise questions about security of the dig?

With such lax security and the same soil creating the same petina in different tombs, couldn't boxes from adjacent tombs have been combined to form the desired "family"?

Shouldn't there have been many more bone boxes inside this tomb? What about the rest of Jesus' family? I know they tried to say that Joseph would have been buried in his birth town. Then why wouldn't the Jesus box be found in His (Bethlehem)?

Finally, they claim to have found DNA inside the "Jesus" box and tested it. If Jesus had no earthly father, shouldn't this have been the wierdest human DNA ever seen? They said nothing.

My biggest question is, now that they have found Jesus' DNA, are they going to clone him? (sarchasm)

Answer 2

The father is usually noted in the name so a person looking at the tomb in that era will be able to determine the family roots. Usually a families wealth/pedigree is tracked by father's side.

Also it doesn't say Jesus, Son of God, because he isn't seen in that light by people back then. Also to assume this Jesus is the Jesus Christ is jumping to conclusion.

The odds were between 24million and 600 to 1 to be the Jesus of the bible. All the names in the crypt/tombs were very common names in that time era the only exception I've hear is the Mariamne name which is rather unique.

Answer 3

i watched i left with more questions then i started with

1. i thought it was a sin for Jews to touch the dead?

2 they took the time to write on there Jesus Son of Joesph and Judah son of Jesus but not Mary mother of Jesus?

3. Mary would have been buried with Joesph plain as that they wouldn't have two separate tombs. in fact Jesus would have been transported back to his falters tomb.

4. first James bone box is a fake now it's not lol

5.i loved the way they just shoved Mathew box out of the way lol

6. and they only did DNA on Jesus and Mary no one else

and why was Marys name in her Latin name and not her Hebrew name that right there screamed it was a fake but the show never addressed any of these things they went in there saying we have them there. so that's that i mean they didn't even date any thing
and that symbol at the top of the tomb they didn't even try ti find out what it meant to me sorry to say that looks like a Temple symbol oh BTW i am Christian but i wouldn't feel threatened if this was all true because maybe Christ spirit ascended and not his body and i have no prob with him and Mary being married i have always thought the church was hiding some thing about him and Mary they were really close if u read the bible

Answer 4

Hum... well you do have a point since they did not do that for Matthew. Jesus was know as 'son of Joseph" in his life. But I wonder why Matthew was not also listed with his father's name. They did say that the box with the bones of James said 'son of Joseph'. But maybe someone added 'son of Joseph to the one that said Jesus. We already know that the one for James may have been a hoax.

And how would Jesus have been able to live out his life without being noticed? I don't think he was that kind of person, to live in hiding. It would not have been in keeping with the type of person that he was. I can not explain the tombs, but something doesn't make total sense. I want to see more DNA test.

Answer 5

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 6

As expected, the documentary angers many Christian believers. Faith and scientific exploration never go hand in hand.

It is ironic...The film attempts to give compelling evidence that Jesus Christ truly existed in the world, but most Christians look upon the discovery with doubt and contempt. It makes you wonder: are the majority of Christians truly believers of Christ, or merely followers of their church's doctrine?

Another point of irony: Religious leaders encourage people to take a critical and objective view towards documentaries like "The Lost Tomb of Christ." However, as soon as someone looks at the church and their practices with a critical eye they quickly condemn that person as "disrespectful," a "blasphemer," or a "heretic." A little hypocritical is it not?

Religious people are really good at practicing 'selective criticism' and 'selective ignorance.'

True, the documentary has many inconsistencies, but not as much as there are in the Bible. At least, the filmmaker invites people to investigate and analyze the validity of his hypothesis.

Most church leaders and fundamentalist Christians would rather have you burn at the stake than dare investigate and analyze the validity of the Bible.

In any case, the findings in "The Lost Tomb of Christ" are just the tip of the iceberg. I am eager to get further information regarding this unbelievable discovery.

Let us hope that the debate, analysis, and scientific exploration on this subject continue for many years to come.

Answer 7

the "Lost Tomb of Jesus" is a fraud...

It is clearly written up as a "Docudrama", which means it is a dramatization and "what may have happened" according to the show's producers.

The James Ossuary was proven to be a fake in the 1990's and it's not just "the faithful" who are proving it to be a fraud it is Secular archaeologists who are slamming this too, read the Wiki article.

So stop reading DaVinci Code and watching Lost Tomb of Jesus.
They were made to make money

End of Story.

read up on it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/the_lost_to...

Answer 8

Yes ?

Jesus became the son of god in 321 AD only. It was one of the decisions of the council of Nicea. They were looking for ways to make christianity more apealing to the pagans and came up with the trinity thing and so on.

Answer 9

Maybe because Jesus wasn't know like that in reality? Why do you believe the Bible when there are books that are missing? If a part has been removed then you don't have the full information about what exactly happened or what names people went by.

Answer 10

Once upon a time, a preacher from Nazareth wanted to perpetuate the biggest hoax in the history of mankind. He fakes His own death in Jerusalem, and escapes with the help of His "followers". Instead of going back to Nazareth, He buys a new family burial plot in Jerusalem, right under the noses of the people who (thought they had) put Him to death. He marries His sweetheart and fathers a son. When He died, He was buried in the Jerusalem burial plot alongside His beloved family. Most of His followers had been put to death by then for taking a joke too far. No one was left to make sure His grave was unmarked, which led James Cameron to the Truth.