About the tomb story on the discover channel??

Question

I had to miss it (probley a good thing), but for those who watched it, what was your opinion on it?

Answer 1

Waste of time. The same old stuff that comes up periodically, same boxes, same "discovery!!!!!"

This is more of man's attempt to show why he does not have to submit to God's authority, but one day every knee will bow and that will be that.

Answer 2

Quiet desperation. Christ was not buried in a coffin, He was laid upon a slab of stone and wrapped in cloth. At that time only the Egyptians were burying their dead in coffins which they called Sarcophagus. I personally don't care if they do find Christ's bones or that He may have been married to Mary Magdaline and had a daughter. According to Jewish law if Jesus was over the age of 30 and didn't have a wife He was considered homosexual and would have been taken out of town and stoned. Whether He did arise or didn't, married or not, it doesn't take away the wonders that Jesus Christ performed, He healed the sick, He taught us how to live, His only message was one of love and tolerance, He was a great gift to this world. Why are we in such a rush to disprove His humanity or His divinity? Why is it so easy to believe in satan but not in Jesus and God? I'm not a Church goer but I know my Bible. Jesus did nothing but good in the short time He was here.And over 2,000 years later this one half Jewish man is still as important now, as He was then. What does that tell you? I hope I have not offended anyone.

Answer 3

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 4

I thought it was pretty good and may have some very factual evidence proving the argument that Jesus' body did not ascend to heaven as stated in the Bible. However it didn't provide any evidence to whether or not, Jesus was God manifested in human form. I will reserve my final decision until the evidence has been fully analyzed.

Answer 5

I missed it "sniff", it was probably good for a laugh.
Greater is He that is in us than he who is in the world.
Jesus is risen, He has a glorified body, He sits at the right hand of God the Father... and He is coming back.
And when He does, there won't be any bones in my grave, or the grave of any other true follower of Christ.

Answer 6

It asked some intriguing questions that deserve more investigation.

The names on the ossuaries are common but for all of them to be in the same place is less common.

Answer 7

Jesus is alive and He is in Heaven with the Father! He was buried and rose again on the third day! Hallejulah! Praise be to God!

Answer 8

I've already answered this question about twenty times. Do a search for similar questions.

Answer 9

Don't have cable. No loss.

Good reasoning Father K, thumbs up.

Answer 10

I THINK NEXT TIME DISCOVERY CHANNEL SHOULD THINK TWICE BEFORE THEY RUMBLE WITH MEN/WOMEN OF GOD