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DAR
This was found 27 years ago. I learned about it several years ago and have wondered why more isn't made of it.

Documentary makers claim tomb of Jesus found in Jerusalem cave

Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)
02/23/2007

Jerusalem (dpa) - The makers of a new documentary, to be aired for the first time at a news conference in New York Monday, claim that a tomb found in a Jerusalem cave 36 years ago belongs to none other than Jesus Christ.

The claim presented in the documentary is based on years of research by world-renowned archaeologists, statisticians, experts in ancient scripts and in DNA, the Israeli Yediot Ahronot daily Friday quoted the makers as saying in an exclusive interview.

The documentary, titled "The Burial Cave of Jesus," is a joint production by Israeli-born Canadian documentary maker Simcha Jacobovici and three-time-Oscar-winning Canadian film director James Cameron (Titanic, The Terminator).

The 2000-year-old cave had already been discovered in 1980 in Jerusalem's Talpiyot neighbourhood. In it were 10 coffins, six of which bore inscriptions, which - translated into English - included the names "Jesus son of Joseph," twice "Maria," and "Judah son of Jesus."

The second Maria is hypothesized to be Maria Magdalene, while the tomb bearing the name Judah could indicate Jesus had a son.

If true, the find could be one of the most significant in the history of archeology and shake the Christian world.

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Even when I was a christian, I wasn't a fundy, so the idea (of the man not resurrecting or being married and/or having one or more kid(s)) never bothered me much. But I'd like to know how the heck anybody got verifiable DNA to "vet" this claim.

People have been coming back from the dead by the hundreds during the past 15-20 years. All over the world, stone-cold-dead people are being resurrected by the fervent, focused prayers of Christians praying in the name of Jesus.

By now, the totals are likely over a thousand. No exaggeration, no joke. My own book "Megashift: Igniting Spiritual Power" documents 52 countries where at least one person has been raised from the dead – with named eyewitnesses ... who have street addresses ... and phone numbers ... and fax numbers ... and e-mail addresses. I even throw in a few photographs. In other words, my little shoestring-budget book clobbers the nonexistent scholarship of James ("Titanic") Cameron. What he doesn't know about resurrections could fill a book – and it does: mine!

Have more laughs here.

DOUG
Then the fundie goes on to say that what makes Jesus' resurrection so special is that it is unique. This, after insisting that this kind of thing happens all the time.

DAR
I read that article too. It's from Worldnetdaily, one of Yick's favorite sources (he sends me stuff from there all the time). But this article takes the cake for being utter junk.

DOUG
Then the fundie goes on to say that what makes Jesus' resurrection so special is that it is unique. This, after insisting that this kind of thing happens all the time."

I visited your hyperlink today. What was hilarious, albeit dangerous, was the web adv on the R side of page from "Whistle Blower" Exposing the Secret Agenda Behind Today's Obsession with Global Warming."

One supposes they are disappointed. Instead of frying to death at temps 7x hotter than presently known via "inerrant" prophecy, we will slowly bake to death at 1-2 deg per decade. Shucks it must be a bummer to die a slow preventable death. Wacknuts are still holding out for the Fiery Furnace of Armeggeddon.
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Darrel wrote:DAR
I read that article too. It's from Worldnetdaily, one of Yick's favorite sources (he sends me stuff from there all the time). But this article takes the cake for being utter junk.

DOUG
Whaaa..? Are you saying that despite the fact that the actual, documentable resurrection of a dead person in the modern age would probably make newspapers and websites all over, and the fact that no such stories are in the news (except the Weekly World News), that you won't just take some fundie's word for it that "people have been coming back from the dead by the hundreds during the past 15-20 years"?

Those folks were just "mostly dead" - per Billy Crystal's character in "Princess Bride", if they were "completely dead" the only thing to do is go through their pockets for loose change.