Posted on 12/25/2024 4:56:58 PM PST by blueplum
A stone box believed to have once held the bones of Jesus’ brother James is now on display in Atlanta, Georgia.
If authentic, “The James Ossuary” is the only archaeological find directly attributed to Jesus’ family, according to Pullman Yards, the event venue displaying the object.
The box is “considered the most significant item ever discovered from the time of Christ,” ...
Etched into the 2,000-year-old limestone relic are the words, “James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus” in ancient Aramaic, according to the U.K.’s Daily Mail....
“We’ve analyzed the likelihood of someone with this combination of names living in Jerusalem at the time. It’s extremely rare. The probability is overwhelming that this is the James from the New Testament,” Golan told the Christian Post.
(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...
Is this a first class, second or third class?
“The most significant item “
We’ll, there is also that Shroud thing from about the same time …
Good for the Pullman Yards.
Complete nonsense. A box with a name from the period as common as today’s John Smith, or Jose Hernandez ( I put that last one because we’ve been flooded with our friends from the South)
All three names were very common in 1st century Israel.
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Right. The two men named “James” in the Bible are identified as the sons of Alphaeus and Zebedee.
Yes, and the Shroud is clearly authentic. 😁
And don’t forget “The Ark of The Covenant’’.
Well, that pizza box they found from the same time period with that name, address and phone number on it...
One either believes or doesn’t based on the Bible and what our hearts tell us...and other, actually pretty strong evidence in history that is not based on relics but real events.
Not much will change the minds of those who don’t believe and (I hope) not much will change the minds of those of us who believe.
Last I heard was that the Ark was stored in some obscure Government warehouse, possibly Warehouse 13.
“Not much will change the minds of those who don’t believe and (I hope) not much will change the minds of those of us who believe.”
Well said, brother.
Preach it!
If this were even remotely thought to be the real thing, the Vatican would have it locked away for no one to see
Seriously? This was long ago proven to be a cheap fraud. The astonishing thing was how gullible researchers has been; a patina was found to be 2,000 years old, but the etching of the name was found to be very modern. Someone found an old ossuary and decided that it could get more attention with the right etching.
Locked it away for no-one to see? The cross was distributed to so many churches that Erasmus (very slanderously) said that there were so many relics that they must’ve used the entire forests of Lebanon. (In truth, they total only about 100 kg; it takes 100,000 grams to make 100 kg!)
People just tend to ignore such relics; the Sacred Chalice (Holy Grail) has been in Spain since the third century; it’s currently in the Cathedral of Valencia, where it was restored by a bunch of Frenchmen at the time when a boy named Arthur was Duke of Brittany while John I usurped the British throne.
The crown of thorns lies in Cathedral of Notre Dame; the sacred burial cloth lies in Turin; over the tomb of Jesus, a great Church is shared (unfriendlily) by Orthodox and Catholic priests.
Yes, that’s right.
And there are ‘’top men’’ doing the research on the Ark.
Top men.
Has anyone found the Holy Poop of Jesus, yet?
The Vatican doesn’t have imminent domaine rights over artifacts discovered In Israel and purchased by Israeli jews. Same as the Israeli Supremes ruled that the State of Israel also didn’t have imminent domaine rights. From Samuel Clements/Mark Twain’s account, Clements found Jerusalem, and Israel in general, a barren wasteland in 1867. It wasn’t until after the Jews returned to Israel post WW2 that excavations began in earnest and the bone box was unearthed, and subsequently sold to Israeli native Oden Golan in 1976. Had the State of Israel won the court case against Golan, there would still have been a battle royale between Israel and Rome over who had rights to the artifact and Israel would likely have won.
I saw a nail from the Cross in a museum in Vienna.
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