This film fails to tell us that this particular ossuary has been proved to be a fake. The History channel did a whole segment on this fake ossuary this last year.
Is this the mindset of "Jesus wasn't necessarily the Son of God, he was a really nice guy who had good ideas"?
Sounds like a liberal...I am willing to bet HE isn't materialistic...:)
>>Feuerverger says that if James is added to the equation, there is a 30,000 to one chance that the Talpiot Tomb belonged to Jesus' family.
Another calculation, commissioned by James Tabor, chair of the department of religion studies at the University of North Carolina, puts the odds at one in 42 million. <<
I dont understand how they can calculate even these long odds - without DNA from Jesus from a known source what can they compare with?
before anyone starts jumping to conclusions, we should watch the movie. Also, don't forget to check out the movie's official website at http://www.jesusfamilytomb.com
Probably just proves that the names are bogus. The box all but says "The Christ Family Plot".
So let me ask. It of course would be impossible that some enterprising forger put the names on the boxes years, decades or even centuries after the boxes were placed in the tombs? I mean here is the proof that anti-Christians have always needed. Why wait so long to haul it out? Was it a double secret burial cave? Did the Apostles put up no trespassing signs? Did no one have the price of admission to view the bones of the Holy Family?
Can you imagine the time and trouble the Roman Empire and the Jewish religious authorities could have saved if they had just tossed those old bones down during the trials of the Martyrs? Seems that would have shut those pesky Christians up once and for all. Can you imagine Christians continuing to go willingly to their deaths by fire, sword, wild beasts, and other tortures; after being shown the bones of Christ. Yeah the first chapter of Masochists Annonymous will now come to order.
The whole hoopla is a hoax.
He may have found the tomb. It may even be the tomb of Jesus. The key question is, are the remains of Jesus inside? Of course they aren't. 1 Cor 15:3-5.
Compelling scientific evidence ... please!
This makes the GW claptrap seem absolutely einsteinian. Lay off the bong dude.
Look at the evidence: they had different DNA, right?
This is a storm in a teacup. The "evidence" is inconclusive at best, and at worst, shows that this tomb had nothing to do with the Biblical Jesus.
The DNA evidence is a case in point. They evaluated the mtDNA, which can only show maternal connections, between "Maria" (Mary?) and "Maraimne" (Mary Magadalene?), and concluded that since they were not family, it shows that one was married to "Jesus". That ignores a boatload of other possibilities, and just question-begs it into their "evidence".
ah yes, in the end days the blind will lead the blind- lies will be seen as preferable to the truth- what's aazing though are the amount of people who will jump on this 'film' as though it were thje very Word of God itself instead of just reading and understanding the actual word of God.
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And the "Science people" wonder why they're not taken seriously on global warming and evolution. Discovery, the National Geographic and others constantly speak in the name of "science" and the "scientific community" with no apparent objection from the scientists themselves.
When the AAAS speaks out warning the public that these outlets are prone to sensationalism, fraud and forgery, the AAAS will get some respect. So long as they are content to have themselves lumped together, they will be.
While I agree with the spirit in which this is said, I would have said that every Christian believes (and knows) that Jesus, the Son of God, died on the Cross at Golgotha and was buried in a tomb and arose three days later (as foretold in the prophecies). It is for this reason we commemorate and celebrate His Resurrection on what came to be known Easter Sunday (The Feast of the Resurrection).
I would like to see some authority for these statements other that the writer's own imagination.
Thats why no matter how old the eveidence appears to be, or how authentic, it must be false because the disciples died for the testimony of Jesus and would have never confessed that Christ died and rose again and went to their deaths to prove it.
If Cameron is right, the only message that Jesus gave was that he was a fraud and a delusional liar.
Back in 2004 - a story about an ossuary possibly belonging to the "brother of Jesus." No connection to this "family plot" that I can discern ...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/12/17/60minutes/main661815.shtml
Seems totally likely that there are 1,000s of artifacts associated with one non-biblical Jesus or another.