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Old 03-05-2007, 02:49 PM
Drolefille Drolefille is offline
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Very very much so. These caskets were found at least 5 years ago and it took a Hollywood guy to get excited about them? It's the same thing with the casket found several years ago that said James brother of Jesus. Why are we so arrogant to assume that we know this is "THE" Jesus.

Imagine a man named John today did fantastic things and a religion started following him. In 2000 years someone finds a tombstone that says John on it... What are the odds that that is the correct John? An estimate states that 50% of Jewish women at that time were named Miriam or some derivative (including Mary).

Finally, for this to make sense, Jesus would have to be moved from the first tomb on the Sabbath into this fully finished and paid for family tomb that NO ONE knew about. (Or they all just kept secret when writing those Gospels) Why would a (widowed) carpenter's family have a tomb? A family one. Near Jerusalem. When they lived in Nazareth and may or Joseph may not have been originally from Bethlehem? It just doesn't make sense, and is little more than a few scientists who are willing to grasp at straws for some attention. It's a great historical find, but the odds that it has anything to do with Jesus of Nazareth are slim to none.
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