2007-06-13 06:54:25 · 14 answers · asked by francis muriithi 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
All it proves is that someone named Jesus lived during the time period that they can date the remains that they found. I don't think it shows any religious significance.
2007-06-13 06:57:48 · answer #1 · answered by Drake the Deist 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hiya,
I assume you mean the "tomb of jesus" discovery?
They didn't find that two months ago. They found it over 20 YEARS ago. It was no big deal then. It's still no big deal. 10 osshuaries and 3 skulls. Not much in the way of remains, huh?
Yeshua and Miriam are very popular Jewish names.
A documentary was made in 1996 by the BBC. But they didn't have Cameron's money. So it didn't get any attention.
Did you know there's also a tomb in Kashmir claiming to be the tomb of Jesus? They even claim to have footprints with his scars from the crucifixion.
Those who have the Kashmir tomb claim the Talpiot tomb is false. Their big red flag is the use of Bin. Yeshua bin Yossef.
Bin is Arabic. If it was a Jewish tomb it would have been Bar. Yeshua Bar Yossef.
2007-06-13 14:10:44 · answer #2 · answered by Max Marie, OFS 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be impossible that 2 scientists discovered Jesus' body is because: Jesus ascended to heaven with his own physical body after his resurrection 40 days later, as witnessed by 4 beings. 3 were His disciples (John, James, Peter) and an Angel.
I'll go with the eye-witness testimony instead.
Not to mention securlar historians such as Pliny who wrote about the resurrection at the time Jesus lived, died, and was resurrected.
My guess is that these scientists are part of the Gnostic movement that ran strong in AD 135 to try to disprove Christianity by (1) denying the divinity of Jesus (2) that the disciples stole Jesus' body (3) that there was no resurrection. All claims were discovered to be false. Also, this movement tried to claim authorship of many "books" or "letters" that were rejected as part of the bible today because they claimed authorship, and authority of many writings, excluded from the bible. These claims of authorship were once again, proven false by the 7 churches in the 1st and 2nd centuries who dug through the original writings of the original disciples to discover that these "writings" by the gnostics was an attempt to discredit Christianity at its core, and as a result, their writings were found to be forgeries, etc.
It looks to me like the gnostics are at it again, or maybe these scientists are lying. Once again, I'll go with the eyewitness testmony refuting this.
2007-06-13 14:04:11 · answer #3 · answered by Ronald H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Holy sh*t!
"Christian teaching generally states that Christ was assumed into heaven corporeally. Therefore the only parts of his body available for veneration are parts he had lost prior—hair, blood, fingernails, milk teeth, his circumcized foreskin & the unbilical cord remaining from his birth."
"The Holy foreskin: a number of churches in Europe have claimed to possess it, sometimes at the same time. Various miraculous powers have been ascribed to it. Because the sweet scent that the relic was supposed to give off was reputed to enhance fertility and ease childbirth, when Catherine of Valois was pregnant in 1421, her husband, King Henry V of England, sent to Coulombs for the Holy Prepuce. According to this legend, it did its job so well that Henry was reluctant to return it after the birth of the child (the future King Henry VI of England)."
"The Holy Sponge is one of the Instruments of the Passion. It was dipped in vinegar (or in some translations sour wine) and offered to Christ to drink during the Crucifixion, according to Matthew 27:48; Mark 15:36; and John 19:29. piece of the Holy Sponge, brown with blood, is preserved in Rome in the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano"
Yes, people actually worship this stuff!
Man's inhumanity to man will continue as long as man loves God {& his foreskin?} more than he loves his fellow man.
— Joseph Lewis)
2007-06-13 15:17:50 · answer #4 · answered by HawaiianBrian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is another person trying to sell a book.
Why is it that when things like this come out, or even a fictional book, so many take it for automatic truth, but they will not spend the time to even read the New Testament, of entertain that the modern miracles could ever happen?
Google Miracle of the Eucharist you might be surprised.
Peace!
2007-06-13 13:59:33 · answer #5 · answered by C 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was resurrected,, the remains they found was people that just had the same names,, as Jesus and Mary,,,.. in that time alot of people named their children Jesus and Mary... The true Jesus is in Heaven....
2007-06-13 14:01:11 · answer #6 · answered by dolphinchic 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An Israeli scientist said that he couldn't make ne-thing out of the inscriptions in/on the tomb. I also researched evidence for creation -- I found some at bibleplus.org/creation/evidence
2007-06-13 13:57:43 · answer #7 · answered by Defender of Freedom 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think it will be moved right next to the remains they found last year and the year before that and the year...
2007-06-13 13:59:06 · answer #8 · answered by Eric 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
They found the grave of someone called Jesus. It doesn't prove anything either way, the name was not uncommon.
2007-06-13 14:01:55 · answer #9 · answered by Citizen Justin 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolute Hogwash, bologna!
2007-06-13 14:00:15 · answer #10 · answered by HeVn Bd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋