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So we have an anti-christian nut, who believes Jesus's miracles were faked, and this other woman, against the well-respected Bibloical Archaeology Society, who have examined the inscriptions and vouch that they pass muster.

As I said before, ALL archaeological finds get "challenged". It's part of the process.

I asked you to summarize the strongest points of objection against the veracity of the ossuary so we could discuss them.

If you are saying that the strongest argument is that the inscription "Brother of Jesus" was written in a different hand, one that was "illiterate", that doesn't prove it's a hoax.

The vast majority of ossuaries simply have "So and so, son of so and so". It's rare to add "Brother of _______" It only happens when the Brother is noteworthy or famous.

How is it IMPOSSIBLE for someone in 62 AD to have said, "We really should add that this man was the brother of Jesus Christ" and add that to the inscription? How is that mind-bogglingly impossible?

Do you really think this escaped the eyes of the B.A.S.? If so, do you challenge all the other Bible Archaeology they've done?

It's nice to see you side with Islamic apologists like Eisenman in your fight against Christianity.

How is it IMPOSSIBLE for someone in 62 AD to have said, "We really should add that this man was the brother of Jesus Christ" and add that to the inscription? How is that mind-bogglingly impossible?

Now you're down to defending a stone box which contradicts the Bible on the basis that it's not IMPOSSIBLE that someone could have carved it in AD 62?

The fact is that Mark does mention that Jesus had half siblings. Or would Catholics like to just re-write scriptures so that they conform with Catholic TRADITION!

Oh she was a virgin when Christ was born, but heaven forbid that she would ever have real sex with her husband and have another six or seven or eight or so. That reality would just absolutely muddy the tidy image that many have of Mary...one of eternal chastity and bountiful omnipotent grace!

Remember what she said in her greeting to Elizabeth...the part where she ackowledges that what was in her womb was"the Lord of her SALVATION!"