Jesus: Tales from the Crypt?

RogerChristie · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 10:01 am Post subject: Jesus: Tales from the Crypt?

February 23, 2007 6:55

Jesus: Tales from the Crypt

Posted by Tim McGirk

Brace yourself. James Cameron, the man who brought you 'The Titanic' is back with another blockbuster. This time, the ship he's sinking is Christianity.

In a new documentary, Producer Cameron and his director, Simcha Jacobovici, make the starting claim that Jesus wasn't resurrected --the cornerstone of Christian faith-- and that his burial cave was discovered near Jerusalem. And, get this, Jesus sired a son with Mary Magdelene.

No, it's not a re-make of "The Da Vinci Codes'. It's supposed to be true.

Let's go back 27 years, when Israeli construction workers were gouging out the foundations for a new building in the industrial park in the Talpiyot, a Jerusalem suburb. of Jerusalem. The earth gave way, revealing a 2,000 year old cave with 10 stone caskets. Archologists were summoned, and the stone caskets carted away for examination. It took 20 years for experts to decipher the names on the ten tombs. They were: Jesua, son of Joseph, Mary, Mary, Mathew, Jofa and Judah, son of Jesua.

Israel's prominent archeologist Professor Amos Kloner didn't associate the crypt with the New Testament Jesus. His father, after all, was a humble carpenter who couldn't afford a luxury crypt for his family. And all were common Jewish names.

There was also this little inconvenience that a few miles away, in the old city of Jerusalem, Christians for centuries had been worshipping the empty tomb of Christ at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Christ's resurrection, after all, is the main foundation of the faith, proof that a boy born to a carpenter's wife in a manger is the Son of God.

But film-makers Cameron and Jacobovici claim to have amassed evidence through DNA tests, archeological evidence and Biblical studies, that the 10 coffins belong to Jesus and his family.

Ever the showman, (Why does this remind me of the impresario in another movie,"King Kong", whose hubris blinds him to the dangers of an angry and very large ape?) Cameron is holding a New York press conference on Monday at which he will reveal three coffins, supposedly those of Jesus of Nazareth, his mother Mary and Mary Magdalene. News about the film, which will be shown soon on Discovery Channel, Britain's Channel 4, Canada's Vision, and Israel's Channel 8, has been a hot blog topic in the Middle East (check out a personal favorite: Israelity Bites) Here in the Holy Land, Biblical Archeology is a dangerous profession. This 90-minute documentary is bound to outrage Christians and stir up a titanic debate between believers and skeptics. Stay tuned.

--Tim McGirk/Jerusalem

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**Ferre** · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:06 am Post subject:

Rev. Jack · Cannabis Sacrament Minister Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Posts: 242

Namaste One and all

What we really need is a movie about the message. Christianity is a religious instutition "about Jesus". What the world needs is the "religion Jesus practiced". Awareness of the loving parenthood the Creator feels towards us and all we need to know is waiting for us to look within. The understanding that if the Creator is our parent than we are all brothers and sisters. And most of all that we are destined for a life beyond this world. All the rest is exactly what Ferre says

Nachtschattenreich · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 7:45 pm Post subject:

Roger,

Pepper · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 10:07 pm Post subject:

Christianity teaches believers to "put on the whole armor of God" and "to stand and fight". Taken to the extreme you can see how some may get the idea that war is good as long as you're fighting Satan's kingdom.
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Nachtschattenreich · Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 11:10 am Post subject:

From that perspective, the Crusades were just wars in the same sense as the Soviet self-defense against the Nazis was just war.

Stalin did not have a false sighting of Satan in Hitler, only a belated one.

poko · Full member Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Posts: 63

yes, we are at war with the serpents because they spend their time leading our brothers astray.

Nachtschattenreich · Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 7:51 pm Post subject:

Back on topic - Jerusalem Archeologist says Di Caprio Code is Nonsense:

Don Quixote · Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 2:44 pm Post subject:

ya know , i must be a prophet or something !

i foresee that this loon will stir up a lot of controversy and then make a shitpile - o - money out of the whole deal.

or maybe i am just a cynical blighter.i dunno.

lets see now -

when asked to sum up the escence of his teachings , didnt Jesus say

"Love God - Love your Neighbour." thats it folks.thats all.Thanks.

or something like that. hmmmm.ok.sounds alright to me.i don't have a problem with that.so er where did we get confused.where did we all go wrong.

where did all this other bullsh#t come from?all these oaths and blokes in dresses.All these multi-billion dollar corporate enterprises selling some version of a 'god' that they invented.All this killing in the name of their false man made idols and man made gods?

My fathers people believe this age will end in fire on either the 21st or 23rd of december 2012 (depending which calender you use).
According to observations of the planet Venus going back thousands of years.

Personaly i think , as a species , we are just too stupid to live Wink

do yo thang.

HUMANITY

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prntrkmt · Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 5:51 pm Post subject: