My non-Chrisitian friends: Are any of you sold on this tomb of Jesus thing?

Question

I know I'm not, and was wondering where you guys stand.
Thanks! =0)

Answer 1

thier full of $hit

Answer 2

I thought it was good, but incomplete.

It would be interesting to see the name distribution of the names on the other ossuraries. The statistical point was excellent, but a bit on the low side numerically. What surprised me was the fact that the information has been hidden for so long. Twenty-seven years is a long time when the Israelis know the importance of this information to the "Hand that protects them". A logical continuation would be to locate the bones and extract DNA to see if any nuclear DNA survived. The bones should be checked for damage and a cause of death should be determined. The DNA could be used to to find female lines of the women in the tomb.

I can't believe the Jews get into collecting bone boxes. What is wrong with stamps, coins, paintings, or fossils?

The Holy Grail would be a piece of junk next to the bones of Jesus to Christians. Of course the Christians would have to do some serious bible revisions and things would change.

Answer 3

Na, it's a little too 'convenient', especially coming on the heels of the dVC hoopla.

We know that early Christians downplayed, or wrote out entirely, the centrality of women in the movement. (They ALL criticized each other for having women followers and funders.) So Jesus could well have been married. That Mary Magdalene wasn't downplayed even more than she was strongly suggests that she was very powerful in that circle.

There was probably something going on at that time. A Jewish rabbi intent on reforming practice? Someone who genuinely believed that he was special in some way? We don't know, nor can we from the evidence to hand.

But the sociology of this find just reads wrong. At the very least, the early Christians would have been adamant to keep the body hidden. Even if it meant digging it up and hiding it.

Answer 4

Although I'm not Christian and have no particular stake in the whole disprove-the-Bible debate, I have to say that in my opinion it's highly unlikely.

Jesus did have a certain amount of local fame (assuming he existed at all). When the legend about his death and resurrection started to spread, if he WAS alive somewhere with a family, then surely a counter-legend would have sprung up: "Dead? Resurrected? Er, no... he lives over thataway with his wife Maria and his son Judah. We see them every market day."

Answer 5

As an agnostic and just a socially aware person, I'm never sold either way on issues of religion. The tomb of Jesus thing is going to be spun however each group wants it to appear.

Answer 6

I am personally holding back from investigating it until some more research has been done. I think that this was rushed to the public for purposes of exploiting it for money. When that happens it is very common for people to miss some of the important facts. I say, let the researchers work on it for a year or so and then see what they have to say. Till then, it is undecided.

I am leaning towards it being a mistake though.

Answer 7

Unfortunately, I missed the special when it aired over the weekend, but I'm not at all convinced by what I've read. The scientific method demands a careful and systematic weighing of all the evidence, both for and against, and I don't think that has been done yet. I will remain skeptical but open-minded awaiting further analysis of the evidence.

Answer 8

Nah, I still don't believe he ever existed as a real human being. The Jesus myth was largely based on Mythra.

Answer 9

I defiantly believe in the Jesus tomb thing because come on, the man who thinks he found it is the same man who wrote and produced the movie: Titanic. I am Christian so I already know that Jesus want to heaven all body and soul, but I think which is a very wondrous possibility is that it may be St. Joesph's.

Answer 10

I am a Christian and I think it is a bit far fetched. Are they trying to say that there was only one guy named Jesus (son of Joseph). It could have been a folower or just another Jesus. How will the DNA testing prove anything ? Is God in the police DNA database? I think if I wasn't a Christian I'd still doubt it.....

Answer 11

Not particularly.

I mean its a shot in the dark.

The DNA evidence amounts to the fact a bunch of dead people with fairly common names were related and happened to have names simular to the founder of a popular religion.

Is it possible that this is grave of christ?

I'd say highly unlikely. I mean, what about the execution thing? What about the fact that most of the christians were fugitives during the first 300 years?