REASONS
I DO NOT ACCEPT THE LOST TOMB OF JESUS HOAX
This week James Cameron, producer of “the Titanic,” will announce a documentary
to be shown on March 4th on the Discovery Channel on “The Lost Tomb of Jesus”. It was found in 1980. The Talpiot Tombs allegedly bear the names
of Jesus, Mary, Matthew, Joseph, Mary Magdalene and Judah, the son of
Jesus. So, get ready for some laughable
assumptions. Instead of Jesus rising
from the dead supposedly He married Mary Magdalene and had a son named
Judah. Cameron says, “It doesn’t get
bigger than this. We’ve done our
homework. We’ve made the case, and now
it’s time for the debate to begin.”
Jimmy, the debate started almost two thousand years ago.
1.
The original discoverers who found it in 1980
totally rejected that they had found any significant find relating to
Jesus.
It
took disinterested retailers of a documentary to make it big news and a project
for greed.
2.
The time period for that
type of tomb was determined to be over a 600 year period!!! (538 BC – 70 AD)
That
opens up even greater possibilities for any coincidental mentioning of similar
family names. There would be a lot more
people named Mary, Joseph and Jesus in 600 years than in 70 years.
3.
The tomb is much too elaborate
as it belonged to an upper middle-class family of Jerusalem – not peasants from
Nazareth.
4.
The writings are not done by
the same person, nor even in the same language (Greek and Aramaic) and since
they were written in different languages and by a different person, the
deceased persons could have been centuries apart and totally unknown to some of
them whose bone box was buried there.
5.
The names that appear are
variants from Biblical texts.
The
name of Jesus is greatly disputed.
Also, Mariamene E Mara is not the name of Mary Magdalene in any of the
Gospel accounts.
6.
The names of Mary, Joseph,
and Jesus were common in that day.
Even
today on any given Sunday I know 6 Mary’s in the congregation. A few years ago I could look out in a
congregation of 130 and see Mary Sue, Mary Magdalene, Mary Kay, Mary Ann, Mary
Renee, Mary
Ellen,
Mary Pauline and just plain Mary. There
are 5 Mary’s in the New Testament and 12 Joseph’s in the Bible!!! Imagine how many Mary and Joseph’s there
could have been at that time since these names were commonly used in that day!
7.
The disinterested retailers
have done DNA and compared it to the other recent finds called “The James
Tomb”.
It
was a hoax. The forger is on trial at
this time. So they unwittingly have
connected their find to a renowned hoax.
One wit said, “Finding James, the son of Joseph and brother of Jesus in
Jerusalem was comparable to finding Sean (Shawn), the son of Ryan, the brother
of Patrick in Dublin.” Perhaps they
should do DNA on the Shroud of Turin and connect it to another hoax.
8.
The ossuary is rejected as
Jesus’ tomb by scholars that are atheists, Jews, Muslims, and Christians.
It is one of the few things
the four groups have agreed on about Jesus.
9.
The disinterested retailers
of the hoax reject the archeologists, historians, DNA experts, statisticians
anthropologists, language experts who have testified “The Tomb of Jesus” is “a hoax,” “nonsense”, “a mockery of
archeological profession”, “improbable”, “a publicity stunt”, “pimping on the
Bible”.
They
pick and choose their witnesses and with a 3.5 million-dollar budget it may not
have been hard to find witnesses to sell their professional integrity.
CONCLUSION
-
That the name is Jesus’ - this is disputed by many who believe that it is not even
the name on the bone box.
THEY ASSUME
-
That the name is Mary Magdalene’s. This
is denied by Scholars who think it is more likely Martha!
THEY ASSUME
- That it was Joseph because
an abbreviated name for Joseph was used.
THEY ASSUME
- This is the Apostle
Matthew even though he was martyred in Ethiopia. Jesus did not have a brother named Matthew.
THEY ASSUME
- The tomb was between 0–70
AD when it could have been earlier anywhere from The Second Temple Era.
THEY ASSUME
- That the alleged Jesus in
the tomb was married to the alleged Mary Magdalene in the tomb.
THEY ASSUME
- Judah was the assumed Mary
Magdalene’s son.
THEY ASSUME
- That poor people from Nazareth would be buried
in an upper middle-class tomb in Jerusalem.
-
That the statistics of likelihood of it being Jesus Christ are valuable
insights, but the estimate of the population is greatly underestimated, making
the statistics in favor of their theory an absurdity. When one extends it to back a couple of centuries, the alleged statistics
of probability is ludicrous.
Isn’t
it great that a totally unbiased man with no ulterior motive, such as money
making, would be able to make this documentary for the world so we could see
what a farce our faith has been?
Stop and think! Does James Cameron’s documentary
require less faith to believe than God’s Word?
Believing the Bible promises to save my soul. If the Bible is right, believing Cameron will damn my soul and
leave me no hope of a resurrection.
Thanks anyway, Jimmy but I think I will exercise
less faith and go to Heaven!