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To: Continental Soldier

Statistics lie and liars figure.

The first indication of deception (by the claim of the odds the figure isn't the body of our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus are something like 6,000/60,000 to one) is that for the statisitcs to be that simple, it should be more convincing to simply state the variables being multiplied together to produce such a statistical probability.

By no means have the cultural implications of Christ's appearance and Resurrection been enumerated to produce any such probability without significant error (by several orders of magnitude).

It would be like taking all the male first names in English and deducing an equal likelihood that any particular male baby will have a particular name. If the bodies in the tomb are from the same time frame, it is probably more realistic to consider many believers from that age may have renamed their entire families after their perception of a Holy family with the anticipation they might inherit more in the resurrection of their families, which might not be from their own control, but by the work of angels.

IMHO, a more noteworthy hypothesis would be that many families from that era renamed themselves after Jesus Christ, the disciples and nearest associates.


16 posted on 03/05/2007 2:20:49 PM PST by Cvengr
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To: Cvengr
Add to that, faking religious artifacts was an industry long ago ... and it would not be difficult to gather up the bones of a family then place false names on the ossuaries and bury them for 'discovery'. The ossuary of James 'brother of Jesus' has been shown to be a forgery and a trial is in progress. Who knows, perhaps the perpetrators of a major fraud were somehow prevented from getting back to their plant and this fraud has lain hidden all these millenia, for discovery in our day to add to the doubting of lost souls. Resurrection is supernatural; supernatural fakery is just as plausible from the opposition to Him ... 'For we are at war with principalities and powers ...'
18 posted on 03/05/2007 3:04:19 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you've had life support. Promote life support for others.)
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