The Bones Of Jesus
By jlsmiles22
@jlsmiles22 (31)
United States
March 5, 2007 1:30pm CST
Here is the story on CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/02/26/jesus.sburial.ap/index.html
What are your thoughts?
I know there is so much speculation, and how are they gonna really prove those are THE Jesus' bones? Truth: they probably will never be able to one way or another.
Please don't send responses saying they are just trying to make money, and they are only saying this because of "The Da Vinci Code", do your research first, Dan Brown (author of "The Da Vinci Code" stole this guys research--he did not come up with that story just outta his head alone.
What if it really was? Would anyone be completely outraged that the "church" created false doctrine and called it God's word?
Wouldn't it make at least a tiny bit of sense that the original church (the original Vatican--all churches come from the catholic church) could have given God's son/choosen messenger super human powers in order to gain control of all christians? I hope someone out there is following me lol, feel free to say what you think.
3 responses
@nicolec (2671)
• United States
5 Mar 07
I'm not sure there is a way to prove or not to prove those are the bones of Jesus. DNA can be used to see if the child belonged to the other skeletons, but I think that's it.
The church will never accept it. For one, the Catholic church does not put much stock in science anyways, so even if 'proof' was delivered, it would not be received. And then they would have to account for the entire base of the faith. You can't really call it a lie or 'false doctrine' because the church did not create the bible. People wrote stories and the church decided to follow those stories. The gospels were so written long before Catholism took it's hold upon the people.
They would have to claim a it was a mistake. They (and I say they because I am not catholic) would realize that they have chosen to believe a myth. A story. That would never happen. It took the catholic church nearly 50 years to appoligize to the Jewish people for not getting involved more during the holocaust. Do you think they would so lightly 'eat crow' for something they have been following for 200 years?
@nicolec (2671)
• United States
5 Mar 07
I suppose you can look at that way. I don't think of the church as being the ones who wrote the stories, but perhaps they were the editors? I mean those stories were long written before any of the Church really came along. Ok, so maybe you are right in that they chose what to put in and what to leave out. It suited them. But they didn't write the gospels.
@ReyM21 (281)
• Philippines
6 Mar 07
The bones of Jesus they referring is extremely contradicts the Bible. The doctrine of resurrection and ascencion would all be false! In the book of JOHN Chapter 19, verses 21 to 42, it was clearly mentioned there by John himself that Jesus was buried near Golgotha after His crucifixion, a new tomb where no one is laid on a garden. While also in Chapter 20 of JOHN, verses 1 to 16, stated that only strips of linen and the burial cloth of Jesus remained in the tomb after His resurrection, NO BODY and NO BONES. Jesus proclaimed that "He was the way, the TRUTH and the life", and if these people (who loves controversy) who disregard the teachings of Jesus Christ by saying they have the truth, then they would make the Lord liar-- which contradicts to His personality.
@tarsadawn (350)
• United States
5 Mar 07
I watched the show on the Discovery Channel last night. The only thing that I realized was that they found tombs and when they did DNA evidence on who they believed were Mary Magdalene and Jesus, the DNA proved that they weren't related. I don't think that people would be outraged if this was founded, but it is just so hard to prove this. It is so old and there are such perplexities surrounding it, I just do not see how this could be founded.
I don't think outrage would happen. If anything, people would go to where they were found and pray and worship.
