Do most atheists really believe they found Jesus'bones?

Question

Wishful thinking maybe?

Answer 1

I presume your reasoning is that we wish to believe that they have found Jesus's bones, because then it would prove that he wasn't resurrected. Thus Christianity is false.
To answer your question, no I don't believe they found Jesus's bones. It's just a hoax to make money. I don't need them to find his bones to know that God doesn't exist.

Answer 2

I doubt anyone believes it. In fact, I don't even understand why the channel would waste the money. I guess they thought it would make some kind of hubbub, but they didn't get much, did they. For anyone who watched (I did), you saw that it was rather hooey-filled. Especially if you watched the discussion piece with Ted Koppel and the filmmakers. But even without that, you see repeatedly during the show that every single other professor in the world doubts that the ossuaries are of any particular religious significance. They have the one professor who's tied to the project, and he defends various ideas behind it, but even they can't say anything for certain.

It just seems dumb and lame. I can't imagine anyone believing it. Even if you think Jesus was a regular guy who was killed and buried and his bones would be somewhere, the idea that they would just happen to be found and this was where they were stored is pretty darn far-fetched. It's also extremely handy that the bones were reburied, so all that was left was near dust in the ossuaries. If they really thought that the bones in that ossuary were Jesus's bones, they'd be trying to dig up the place where all the bones were buried. But there's no way anyone would let them take their foolish publicity-seeking to that level.

That show was so utterly lame it was difficult to watch! The leaps in logic, the omission of "if" once they said it once for each thing, the crazy magical significance they tried to give everything (including the 1980s religious texts buried in the closed tomb, which was a totally regular thing)---it was ludicrous. It was nice to see the Ted Koppel interview program afterwards, although I sympathize with him for even having to go to the trouble.

Answer 3

Yea, Wishful thinking on their part only,

1. Jesus family was not known to be "rich" and tombs like the one is claimed to have Jesus remains are not cheap, and also, Criminals that are crucified like Jesus was do not have that option to be buried, their bodies were burned in what would be regarded as a "trash pit".

2. DNA Test? for what? what would that prove? That he was a middle eastern man? that he was related to the others in the tomb? no surviving relatives today can be matched to Jesus, it proves nothing.

3. 48% of the people living back in those times had those names, it was a very common name.

Conclusion, just another attack by the secular world to discount Christianity out of bias and hatred resulting from the outrage from the left concerning the Evangelical movement that had such an influence in the 2004 presidential election, the left using Hollywood producers trying to keep people from the faith to sway the next elections "their way"

I do not believe that it is a "coincidence" that so many attacks against Christianity have happened in the last couple of years,
like Brian Flemming's documentary "The God who wasn't there"
Dan Browns "The DaVinci Code"
and now this, it is all a plot to destroy Christianity.

Answer 4

They did find someone named Jesus bones. That was the name inscribed on the burial box. From what I've been hearing that was a pretty common name of the time so did they find 'The' Jesus bones? Possibly but there is no way to know for sure. I can understand why the christians are rather freaked out Hearing that Jesus bones are found. IF true that would put huge doubts into their bible, their faith, and christianity in general.

Answer 5

If someone is a true atheists, they probably don't care who's bones were found. If you are a believer than is shouldn't matter either. Faith is a hard concept for most people, if you are continually looking to the outside to find something to keep the faith you will never succeed. Faith comes from within, its a believe in something untangable and doesn't require affirmation from anything or anybody else.

Answer 6

No, I don't believe that. Why wishful thinking? Yes I think that Jesus did not ascend to heaven but that doesn't mean that it's likely that we find his bones or that we could identify these bones as his. There is no way to prove that some bones you find belong to a specific person who died 2000 years ago.

Answer 7

only an exceptionally dumb person would believe that atheists would even entertain the idea the they definitely are Jesus's bone. most atheists are bright enough to realise that boxes of bones with names on them don't prove squat. atheists don't believe in god/gods. only the Da Vinci code conspiracy types will be whooping it up over them bones. and no amount of DNA testing will prove anything. I'm sorry but i can't resist this, just an ironic twist on the usual theist mindless taunt for atheists. ' just as you can't prove they're jesus's bones, you can't prove they're not jesus's bones'.

Answer 8

I doubt it. Most atheists I know question everything. There are way to many holes in the Jesus' bones story to make it believable. Besides, how would proving Jesus existed help atheists.

Answer 9

Most atheists, if not all, don't even believe in Jesus Christ being born........

So, finding Jesus' bones would prove to be a big breakthrough for them - at least that would mean they accept one truth in the Bible. May be it would also encourage them to read it with an open and unbiased mind.

Answer 10

If there is no Jesus, there is no carcass with bones to be found. Do most catholics really believe that the bones laying under the vatican are Saint Peters? Religionists really know how to manipulate people eh?