I am not asking this question in response to last night's Discovery Channel special. I have been mulling it over for some time, and I think I might garner a lot of responses now that its in the public light due to that special.
I encourage people of ALL FAITHS to respond. Especially, but certainly not limited to, those followers of Judaism, Islam and Christianity.
I would also like to request well thought out, Academic answers only please. I don't want preachers and the like using this to tell people of other religions who's right and who's wrong. All such answers will be disregarded.
2007-03-05 06:29:57 · 7 answers · asked by sprocket9727 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I believe the Word of God over the "evidence" of so-called "discoveries of science." GOD is never wrong but our understanding and interpretation of "what we find" certainly can be. I will NEVER doubt God but I will doubt myself (limited understanding) and science "discoveries" that contradict scripture.
2007-03-05 06:35:55 · answer #1 · answered by wd 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well... actually the grave has never been lost and you can visit it yourself in Jerusalem now. Christians have lived in Jerusalem since the days of Jesus, and when Helena, the mother of the Roman Emperor Constantine, visited Jerusalem around 320 AD, they showed her the tomb and she built a Church on the site, with the tomb still enclosed inside it. It is known as the Church of the Holy Sepulcre, which means the Holy Grave. Of course it was empty and still is. Without a belief in the Resurrection of Christ's body, those first Jewish followers of Jesus would never have developed a religion in which that first conquest over death is the central theme.
2007-03-05 07:20:16 · answer #2 · answered by porphyry 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The simple fact is, if Jesus hasn't risen from the grave, our faith is useless, and we are still in our sins. Speaking of academic, this whole thing is very hard to swallow, considering the source, only one who really wants to see christianity fall would believe it, but they'll believe anything. The good news is that christianity will never fall.Put that in the bank.
2007-03-05 06:42:36 · answer #3 · answered by W J 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
His flesh became a barrier that prevented get entry to to the heavenly realm. Jesus’ “flesh” is spoken of at Hebrews 10:20 as being represented by technique of the “curtain” that separated the Holy from the most Holy contained in the tabernacle. before he could enter heaven, the genuine “maximum Holy,” Jesus had to offer up his fleshly existence and obtain spirit nature. His body of flesh could were a barrier to his going previous the “curtain” as a spirit man or woman. question: If Jesus Christ became resurrected as a spirit, how can Jehovah's Witnesses say they are going to be resurrected actual? So, what did Jesus advise even as he stated: "ruin this temple and in 3 days i visit strengthen it up… He became talking about the temple of his body." What temple? What body? “Do you no longer understand that you human beings are God’s temple, and that the spirit of God dwells in you? If absolutely everyone destroys the temple of God, God will ruin him; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you human beings are.”
2016-12-05 06:51:28 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My views would not change because there would be no real proof that it was Jesus. No one knows his DNA, and carbon dating would only give so much. You could carbon date it back to the times of Jesus, but no proof would exist to say that it was REALLY Jesus.
I'm a non-practicing Catholic...more of a Christian, and no one, not even the church, could convince me that it was really his grave and body.
2007-03-05 06:38:10 · answer #5 · answered by servinit2me 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I DONT THINK THAT JESUS FOLLOWERS WILL CHANGE THEIR FAITH,IF ITS TRUE OR NOT!
does anyone knew the truth of his religion,before he started to believe in it!!
the only thing i can say,im catholic,altough im not a very religous person all i can say about jesus is there was times when i was very sceptic about my religion and all the stuff it says!but when i really was in need of help,i prayed and i prayed ...!yes i prayed him !..altough i was sceptic if he was true or not ! and guess what ...he answered my prayers! he helped me ,altough i had doubts in him! since then im sure there will be no difference if he went to heaven or remande in this grave that been found!
all can say ,i doubted ,but he was by my side!
2007-03-05 06:49:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
they wouldn't all this talk of his bones is a crack of crap and I laugh at anybody who believe in this junk
2007-03-05 06:34:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋