Posted on 03/04/2007 8:37:23 PM PST by Reaganesque
The Lost Tomb of Jesus on the Discovery Channel was followed up by a panel discussion moderated by Ted Koppel. Koppel and two professors who are not affiliated with the documentary totally eviscerated the director of the film and one of his consultants. Koppel seemed particularly offended by the film maker's claims of being a journalist. If you get the chance to see this review of the documentary, watch it. It is very funny.
Wasn't it the body that was missing, not the tomb?
I went to church today for nothin!!!S\
Not according to the filmaker. And it is quite clear, to me anyway, that his intent here was to be controversial, not accurate.
I made a point not to watch it.
I was curious to see just how scientifically bogus this documentary was. And it did not disappoint in it's junk science quotient. It was like watching an episode of The X-Files.
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Oh, well that explains it.
I don't have tons of patience for some of the junk science on the Christian side, but I didn't even have to watch this particular "documentary" to tell it was crap. You can smell it about 30 yards away.
I watched a couple minutes where they showed a block of concrete with an upside-down V that also had a "tick" mark in it which looked to me just like a half-dozen other tick marks int he same line, which looked like they were made by some machine picking up the block.
The "journalists" suggested this "symbol" looked "just like" symbols marking the tomb where their other stuff was found.
That's all I saw so I can't tell you more about it. Seemed pretty thin to me.
What were they basing that it was Jesus on? That the tomb had the name Jesus with Mary and Joseph names next to it? Well if that`s all the evidence they need, then I guess every Jesus in L.A. with parents Jose and Maria means that`s the real Jesus to them too, and if you include every guy named Jesus in the world who has parents named Jose and Maria, then I guess there must be millions of Messiahs running around right now! Quick, call James Cameron!
The rest of the evidence was just as "compelling".
So either way you take it this crap is mainly intended to do the usual distort, confuse, smear, discredit and dilute Christian faith by saying that its founder a)had an illegal affair and wife & child and b) he is dead.
Of course if any of these claims were true than it would have been thus documented in the bible and as for the alleged body of Christ we all read how he was certifiably risen and convincingly appeared to many up to 500 people at the same time and was touched & handled by them.
The mark over the tomb looked like the Eye of Providence. Look at the back of the dollar. Does Hiram Abiff have an alibi? (:>)
The claim that this is Jesus' lost tomb is based almost entirely on the names on the boxes and the statistical probability that all of these names in the same tomb add up to their conclusion. They also did a DNA test on the box marked Jesus (Jeshua, actually which is also interpreted as Joshua, a fact the film over looked) and compared it to the box they believe to be Mary Magdalene's. The tests indicated that the two did not have the same mother. The film-maker then makes the logical leap that the results indicate that these two people were married, since only family would be buried in a family tomb. Really, really weak. No mention of the Jewish custom of a brother marrying his deceased brother's wife to raise children to his dead brother's memory.
It looked like the Masonic symbol.
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