[DaveTesla]

A good Read.

Also, my thanks to the history channel, Hollywood, and
and National Geographic on their insult during Lent.

One I wont forget.

[uptoolate]

Excellent article. Each and every one of these 'new' facts about Christ must be refuted with the truth.

There will be more of these so-called 'proofs' against Christianity. The Devil thinks he is being wise with his deceptions, but it is the Lord who has the upper hand. God is separating the people of the earth. Those who believe, and those who are His sworn enemy. God will not allow fence sitters.

[rickdylan]

I don't particularly care whether or not anybody might have have found Jesus' tomb (which would be damned near impossible to prove one way or another), whether Jesus was the son of God or the son of a carpenter, or anything like that at all. Jesus WAS a devine messenger and the message he brought to earth involved morality and conduct and still rings true 2000 years later.

Hundreds of witnesses saw Jesus after he had died and dozens went to their deaths rather than deny this. One deluded individual might willingly die for a known falsehood, groups of people do not.

As to resurrection, I would assume Jesus would have no more use for a dead body than I would and that what people saw for all the world looked and sounded as if he had been resurrected in the flesh but that such was not actually the case and that what they experience was basically paranormal in nature. In fact, had Jesus actually spent 40 days walking around a Roman protectorate in a dead body, Roman soldiers quite certainly would have noticed that, and done whatever was necessary to put a stop to it.

[xjcsa]

Gary Habermas is awesome. I had him as a professor for a few classes in college.

[TexanToTheCore]

"We can't possibly alienate our customers. We are Hollywood and we like rule, dude. Just keep piling on the hoakum, they eat it up."

[Continental Soldier]

I agree that the timing is insulting. Could this happen to any other religion? Well, certainly, not without serious protest, and, maybe, even some violence toward those pertetrating the attack. For some reason, it seems to be the season to attack Christianity. Religions come and go; they always have, but the good of them often stays with us and makes us better. Something the attackers ought to think about.

[SkyDancer]

So like what if all this happened to Mohammad? Where's his tomb. Doesn't have one ... went to heaven on a white horse ... so if his tomb was supposedly discovered the rioting would go on for years .....

[Swordmaker]

More on the Jesus Tomb fraud program... PING!

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[LiteKeeper]

Gary is one of the leading apologists on the subject of the resurrection. I heard him speak last summer...well worth the time and effort!

[theBuckwheat]

If this "documentary" is true than Jesus is a liar and not Savior, leaving all humanity to look for other ways to transcend mortality.

So far, nobody has given their life to defend the claims that are made, while many people who were direct participants in the events associated with the life of Jesus lost their lives in defense of claims made in the four Gospels.

[Young Werther]

I hope that the Discovery channel doesn't mind but I will be watching Desparate Housewives instead. I like my fiction with an acknowedged "tongue in cheek".

BTW a friend is from that part of India where St Thomas evagelized. His Catholic Catechism had some first hand stories about St Thomas.

When Thomas arrived the major religion was Sun worship. Each week the people would disrobe and enter the water, (lake, river of where he was on the coast sea.) they would say prayers offered to the sun and would then scoop up handfuls of water and throw it above their heads. They believed that the water would be blessed by the Sun. Then this cleansing water would fall back on them bringing the Suns blessing.

Thomas spoke of Jesus and Holy Baptism and the cleansing of one sins but he went unheeded. Until one day he entered the water and followed their example except that he was praying to Jesus and asking for the forgiveness of his sins through the Baptism of Faith.

Here's where the miracle occurred. When he cast the water into the air it hung above his head and didn't fall. Since Thomas's God worked this miracle the people were immediately converted and followed the teachings of Thomas!

2000 years later this Christian enclave in India still pass the story from Father to Son!

I've posted this story before but during Lent it is worth repeating. BTW Quo Vadis was on TCM yesterday. I look forward to these religious movies during Lent since they add substance to my regious feelings.

[SunkenCiv]

thanks go to GoLightly and xcamel for compiling the list (thus far) of such topics, and to whomever started the handy keyword:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=jesustomb

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1789769/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1789966/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1790456/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1790579/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1790608/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1790818/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1790884/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1790953/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791244/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1791251/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791284/posts
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791544/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791583/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791588/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791610/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791891/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1792121/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1792190/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1792305/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1792583/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1793097/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1794358/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1794359/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1794668/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1794698/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1794854/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Just adding this to the GGG catalog, not sending a general distribution.

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[theFIRMbss]

>The Lost Tomb of Jesus: A Response ...

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