[zzwhale]

Christ was crucified and was not buried within the walls of Jerusalem...

The Garden Tomb is where he was interred.... not he Holy Seplechure Church..
MAYBE THE CRACKHEAD POPE NEEDS MORE TOURIST DOLLARS...

He is not here for HE IS RISEN...

[mdmathis6]

Indeed...”Why look ye for the living among the dead? He is not here; he is risen!

[silverleaf]

when we were in Jerusalem most locals referred to the Mt of Olives site as the location of the tomb

But the Church of Sepulcher site was very ceremonial with Coptic priests on watch duty

[Campion]

Do some research. The “Garden Tomb” is only 1300 years old. And, the location of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was outside the walls of Jerusalem 2000 years ago.

[Missouri gal]

Yes, Christ is risen. The tomb is a historical sacred place, and is completely, inarguably proven to be the location of the LORD’s tomb. It was a site of pilgrimage from that first Good Friday, when people came to pray there, to this day. Emperor Hadrian was so put out about it that he built a pagan temple over it, leveling nearby Calvary and enclosing that as well. (The sepulcher was only a short distance away, as scripture says.) When Constantine became emperor, he sent his mother Helena to oversee the building of a church there, and the recovery of other sacred objects, including the authentic cross, which was found laid in a chamber beneath the sepulcher, as the local people had always said. The titulus was still nailed to the cross. Our LORD’s blood is in the rock there. For some, it is important to see and touch such things, but also important to have physical proof for those who do not believe, such as Muslims. See holysepulcre.custodia.org and the wonderful book Witnesses to Mystery from Ignatius Press.