Comments on: Princeton Conference Vindicates “Lost Tomb of Jesus”

By: personallo

personallo — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:13:46 +0000

wow
its very reasonable point of view.
Good post.
realy good post

thx

By: Christian Times » Blog Archive » Princeton Conference Vindicates “Lost Tomb of Jesus”

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:05:43 +0000

[…] Brad Beaman wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThe article claims renewed consideration by 50 top scholars that the Talpiot tomb may in fact be that of Jesus Christ or the holy family. Interesting. (Additionally, it’s interesting that I haven’t heard a whisper about this conference … […]

By: -kp-

-kp- — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 06:46:19 +0000

Nota Bene: “To conclude, we wish to protest the misrepresentation of the conference proceedings in the media, and make it clear that the majority of scholars in attendance—including all of the archaeologists and epigraphers who presented papers relating to the tomb—either reject the identification of the Talpiot tomb as belonging to Jesus’ family or find this claim highly speculative.“

By: -kp-

-kp- — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:18:39 +0000

I see that Charlesworth is content to believe in Jesus Christ even if the resurrection of the flesh is a fiction. I don’t know which creed he confesses, but mine doesn’t draw a line through “flesh.”

By: -kp-

-kp- — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:13:20 +0000

I’ve realized now, in reading the rest of the Time piece, that the bones were in each of the ossuaries of the “family tomb,” so if this is Jesus’ tomb, his bones are there.

Intense.

Now, the question is this: if 50 scholars meet in ten years and conclude that this is, in fact, the tomb of Jesus w/bones intact, which religion are you going to convert to? I’m thinking Judaism.

By: -kp-

-kp- — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:05:21 +0000

The first paragraph of the Time piece states:

When the Discovery Channel aired a TV documentary last year raising the possibility that archeologists had found the family tomb of Jesus Christ in the hills behind Jerusalem, it caused a huge backlash among Christians. The claim, after all, challenged one of the cornerstones of Christian faith — that Jesus, after his crucifixion, rose bodily to heaven in his physical form.

I’m confused, though. Why does merely locating the family tomb of Jesus’ kin mean that he wasn’t raised from the dead? Isn’t it the bones of Jesus himself that would indicate that?

On another note, what’s going to happen if Ole Jim thinks he’s found Jesus’ bones? Helluva way to end your career!!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:38:29 +0000

Here’s another article about the conference. It’s rather more responsible than the Marketwire one:

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1704299,00.html