Son of God "dares to ask surprising questions"
He is one of the most famous people in history but no-one knows what he looked like - until now perhaps.
Posted on 03/13/2002 9:58:03 AM PST by JediGirl
An American researcher who believes she has found the final resting place of Jesus Christ, is campaigning to exhume a body at a Muslim shrine in Indian-administered Kashmir for scientific tests.
Suzanne Marie Olsson, a New York-based researcher is currently in Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital, studying the Muslim shrine of Rozabal.
While Muslims say Rozabal houses the tomb of Yuza Asaf, a Muslim saint, many researchers believe it contains the body of Jesus Christ.
To put an end to speculation, Ms Olsson has suggested exhuming the remains at Rozabal for DNA testing and carbon dating.
"This will trace him to his origin... and resolve the raging controversy over the identity of the place forever," she said.
Ms Olsson has already dug up a shrine at the Murree hill station in Pakistan under the supervision of archaeologists Ahmad Hassan Dani and Saida Rahman.
Murree is believed to be the resting place of Jesus' mother, Mary.
"The exhumed remains have been sent for the DNA testing and the report is awaited," she said.
"Now Rozabal holds the key.
"If the remains there are sent for testing and then tallied with the results of the Murree project, it will either establish the link between the two shrines as being of similar origin and thus authenticate the Marium-Jesus theory or prove it wrong for good."
However, her project has run into trouble with the managers of the Rozabal shrine, who are strongly opposed to its "desecration".
"We will never allow it," said Mohammed Amin, one of the managers.
I don't think so.
This image is brought to you by the same folks who, with a straight face, will tell you that from a single toebone they not only can reconstruct the sex, age, height, weight of the induvidual, but what he had for breakfast the day before he died and whether he abused his children and emptied the dishwasher.
I have derived more chuckles from this bunch of buffons than from any other "scientific" discipline.
Roman crucifixion,
Bound with burinal-linens and burial spices,
A Roman guard unit,
A stone so large that 3 women couldn't roll it away,
And a Roman seal.
And He still won't stay down.
God is love.
Ps...If you're SO SURE of your views, why get so upset? Seems to me that you T-Totalers would like to see these scientists debunked.
My guess is that Jesus travelled to India. And as far as I know, there weren't many Christian holy places at the time of his death. I would like to know how his body got from the cross...over to Kashmir....
So I am not even sure if this is a real news story or someones idea of a sick joke to write about......at any rate, Jesus' body is simply not on Earth, but at the right hand side of His Fathers! Period!
But that is not logical... if the theory of the Holy Graal is correct, then Mary went to Europe and not to Kashmir.
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