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There seem to be quit a few literary depictions in bible that typically would be perceived as fictional. Do you feel the evidence in this "Docudrama" speaks to the dissolution of those stories? (Specifically the Resurrection). Does this also raise questions about the trinity after the death of Christ? Consequently does it matter to you if Jesus’' body had not ascended?

2007-03-05 02:21:18 · 11 answers · asked by ROCKET 3 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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IF this "docudrama" were true Christianity would be a total farse!
Here's the thing, It isn't true.
This answer was from Mr Religion:
Cameron is pandering to the public and his "discovery" will be proven to be just bad science:

- The statistical analysis is not rigorous

- The name "Jesus" was a popular name at that time, appearing in 98 other tombs and on 21 other ossuaries

- There is no historical evidence that Jesus was ever married or had a child

- The earliest followers of Jesus never called him, "Jesus, son of Joseph"

- It's unlikely Joseph, who had died earlier in Galilee, would have been buried in Jerusalem

- The Talipot tomb and ossuaries probably would have belonged to a rich family, which is not a historical match for Jesus

- Fourth-century church historian Eusebius makes quite clear the body of James, brother of Jesus, was buried alone near the temple mount.

- The two Mary ossuaries do not mention anyone from Migdal, but just Mary, a common name

- By all ancient accounts, the tomb of Jesus was empty, making it unlikely that any body was moved, allowed to decay for a year, then be put into an ossuary.

- If Jesus had remained in the tomb, first-century opponents of Christianity would most certainly have found His body and put it on public display.

- Amos Kloner, the first archaeologist to examine the site, said the conclusions cannot be supported by the evidence but it's a way to make money on television. He would have nothing to do with supporting the movie's assertions. "It's nonsense," he said.

- James, the half-brother of Jesus and author of the book of James, the early leader of the church in Jerusalem, was martyred for his faith. Why does James make no mention in his letter that Jesus was not bodily resurrected? When he was about to die why didn't he just recant his beliefs and say, 'Okay, okay! My brother didn't rise from the dead. Here's where we took him. Here's where his bones are. Here's our family tomb. We made the whole thing up?' People will generally not die for a lie when they know it's a lie. Why would James die perpetuating a lie when it would have been so easy to disprove? In fact why would any of the apostles go to their deaths for something they knew to be false?

As I have expected, there has been **no scientific or historical find** that has ever been shown to disprove the authenticity of the bible's history or theology.

Kind of sad to see that all it takes is a press conference and a slick TV show for folks to form life-altering opinions versus taking the time to rationally examine all the issues and dig a little deeper. It is the Macdonald's generation: fast, superficial, and never satisfying.
I saw this on another post.

2007-03-05 02:27:33 · answer #1 · answered by Jeanmarie 7 · 3 0

As an atheist, I spent most of the show wondering why they didn't do this or that. The first thing that needs to be done is DNA on the actual bones. You could map the entire family that way and if it matched the same way they say it should, that would make the statistics a slam dunk.

Until you do that it is very speculative.

2007-03-05 10:40:53 · answer #2 · answered by Alex 6 · 0 0

Why should we change the Bible just to accomodate science fiction? Until we develop a time machine, it's all just a lot of guesswork One group of scientists say the tomb is real, another says it isn't. I intend to wait for something a little more substantial before changing anything.

2007-03-05 10:30:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Lets say your name is Jack do you know how many Jacks their are in the world.
Back then Jesus was and still is in many cultures a common name. Mary how many Mary's do you know?

Basically what this means to me is a tomb of a guy called Jesus was found and that is nice but so what. Because they will not find him his body did ascend.

2007-03-05 10:33:12 · answer #4 · answered by janice m 3 · 1 0

It is hard to believe that there is effel Tower untill you get there, Muslims do pilgrimage to the origin of their belief but how many christians take pilgrimage to go and see where Jesus was buried? Unless you get to Israel all will seem fiction. Get there then you will realise that what happened was a true told history.

2007-03-05 10:32:39 · answer #5 · answered by Dr Yahoo 3 · 0 0

Further to the above poster's points.

Scholars are not even convinced the name found is Jesus. Ancient Hebrew is very tricky to decipher. The general opinion is that it is actually Hanun, not Jesus. So, there does not appear to be one shred of evidence to support Cameron's conclusions.

He is just trying to get his name back in the news and there he is succeeding.

2007-03-05 10:31:36 · answer #6 · answered by Elizabeth Howard 6 · 1 0

Just another attempt by a hollywood liberal socialist to attack Christians. This so-called "tomb" has already been discredited.

Why do socialists hate God? Maybe because socialism demands that its subjects worship the all-powerful state.

Documentaries used to be two hyenas humping or a cheetah munching down a zebra. Now all they are is democrat / liberal / socialist propaganda.

2007-03-05 10:29:29 · answer #7 · answered by boonietech 5 · 3 0

science deals in testable evidence. The claim that those in the Tomb include the historic Jesus is not testable. Resurrection of the dead is. It doesn't happen.

2007-03-05 10:25:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1 2

There is absolutely no proof that the "docudrama" has any fact to it.

2007-03-05 10:25:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

no. the tomb is not the tomb of Jesus.

2007-03-05 10:34:14 · answer #10 · answered by Thumbs down me now 6 · 1 0

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