The "Tomb of Jesus" revisited

[RedMage]

Even the few experts who supported the film's claims before are losing enthusiasm.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1176152766396&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

Several prominent scholars who were interviewed in a bitterly contested documentary that suggests that Jesus and his family members were buried in a nondescript ancient Jerusalem burial cave have now revised their conclusions, including the statistician who claimed that the odds were 600:1 in favor of the tomb being the family burial cave of Jesus of Nazareth, a new study on the fallout from the popular documentary shows.

The dramatic clarifications, compiled by epigrapher Stephen Pfann of the University of the Holy Land in Jerusalem in a paper titled "Cracks in the Foundation: How the Lost Tomb of Jesus story is losing its scholarly support," come two months after the screening of The Lost Tomb of Christ that attracted widespread public interest, despite the concomitant scholarly ridicule.

The film, made by Oscar-winning director James Cameron and Emmy-winning Canadian filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici, prompted major criticism from both a leading Israeli archeologist involved in the original dig at the site as well as Christian leaders, who were angered over the documentary's contradictions of main tenets of Christianity.

But now, even some of the scholars who were interviewed for and appeared in the film are questioning some of its basic claims.

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[ChristianKitsune]

haha...interesting read. I find it hilarious that every year around Easter people want to bring up "New discoveries!" that will seemingly defunct our faith.

sad, really. =_= Faith isn't supposed to make sense to so-called "wise." And it can't be argued because it's faith. It's based on fact, but they don't seem to think so...

silly "smart" people XDD

[Bobtheduck]

Silly smart people indeed... The wise things of God seem foolish to man. You can't use man's logic to argue God's truth, because his thoughts are not our thoughts, his ways our not our ways. There will always be two aspects of Christianity that will be impossible for people to get over:

1. They're all sinners.. What? I did something wrong? WHAT? It's not ok for two consenting adults to sleep together if there isn't a public commitment that can't be broken beforehand? What? It's not ok to try to accept any religion I want?
2. The most vile sinners can be forgiven. That seems even harder than "People are all sinners." Vengeance runs deeper than the desire to be looked at as good.

Out of those two things, people will come up with any and every reason to reject Christianity... They want to reject personal accountability and reject the forgiveness of those who've done things they view as worse than them. Any and all "evidence" that can, perhaps, invalidate that which threatens them, they cling to.

[uc pseudonym]

I more or less expected this, to be honest, though thank you for linking. Generally I view new scientific claims fairly skeptically, because they are usually picked up by the media before the original studies are better confirmed. Unfortunately, most people only tend to remember the initial news and not later developments.

[mitsuki lover]

Of course a lot of them are probably feeling this way today:
To put it in perspective though, Cameron was on a show on History Channel that purported to prove the historicity of the Exodus and how it was all
scientifically possible.