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Jesus and Mary never went to India this is just not true,Jesus dies on a cross for Our sins,your ,Cathloics take this as false
paarsurrey, I do not think it was Jerusalem I think it was Kansas and She is buried with Doroty and Toto
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paar, You have a lot of opinion and very little facts in my opinion you need to get your FACTS right,no one cares about opinions
I have read this - one of many ideas. I have also visited the shrine at Ephesus where the Virgin Mary reached the end of her life and was assumed, body and soul, into heaven. The shrine is a joint shrine with Muslims.
Well, if a religion was to be founded on the notion that its founder died and rose and went to some mystic land called “heaven”, there better be no trace of the body ever found on this old earth!. Hmm, wonder how you could make sure that happened? Tough to disprove resurrection if those pesky bones were ever found - perhaps they thought of that at the time!!I have read this - one of many ideas. I have also visited the shrine at Ephesus where the Virgin Mary reached the end of her life and was assumed, body and soul, into heaven. The shrine is a joint shrine with Muslims.
If anyone could produce a single bone of her body, they would have done in medieval times. Something like six of Jesus’ foreskins were claimed, but no church every claimed part of Mary’s body.
So, India was the hot place to go in those days? Now why would they just pick up and go to India?
I am always amazed by such “christian” statements as you will be damed because you wont beleive in Jesus’s love" Wow. Believe in me or die forever and burn in hell. Hmmmm. Now that’s what I call a truly loving god!!
Except perhaps milk from the BVM.I have read this - one of many ideas. I have also visited the shrine at Ephesus where the Virgin Mary reached the end of her life and was assumed, body and soul, into heaven. The shrine is a joint shrine with Muslims.
If anyone could produce a single bone of her body, they would have done in medieval times. Something like six of Jesus’ foreskins were claimed, but no church every claimed part of Mary’s body.
Perhaps the Apostles thought of this, but perhaps the Jewish authorities did as well. The Jews never found, or even claimed to find, Jesus’ bones. This would have been the easiest means of controverting the Christian claim that Christ rose from the dead and ascended into heaven (“No,” they could say, “we’ve got his rotting corpse here.”) So, if you believe the Apostles were willingly self-deceiving themselves and hid the body, where might I ask would they take it? And how would they keep others from knowing? Keeping a body hidden is not as easy as it may seem.Well, if a religion was to be founded on the notion that its founder died and rose and went to some mystic land called “heaven”, there better be no trace of the body ever found on this old earth!. Hmm, wonder how you could make sure that happened? Tough to disprove resurrection if those pesky bones were ever found - perhaps they thought of that at the time!!
Well burning a body to nothing in an inferno hides a body, and then of course crushing the bones to powder. So does submerging it bound in weights or placing it into a vat of lye or lime - all of which methods would have been available in Jesus’ time. History tells of many sects who proclaimed a founder’s miraculous resurrection - actually a common theme in the Mediterranean area at the time.
Hi my friend Madaglan!Except perhaps milk from the BVM.
Cremation was, and still is, shunned in Jewish culture. Fire besides creates smoke, which draws attention.Well burning a body to nothing in an inferno hides a body, and then of course crushing the bones to powder. So does submerging it bound in weights or placing it into a vat of lye or lime - all of which methods would have been available in Jesus’ time. History tells of many sects who proclaimed a founder’s miraculous resurrection - actually a common theme in the Mediterranean area at the time.
But what’s funny how we Catholics were always taught - overtly or covertly - to use only the Jews as the foil. And while Jews were the local power and culture from which Jesus arose, and certainly had a hand in his death, his story would fall on much more powerful ears - especially well after he died.
Lets think of a new paradigm - lets think of Jesus’ miraculous Resurrection as a message carried by and needed by the Roman Empire - especially 300 years after he died!
The Romans truly would be the ones who needed to preserve the Resurrection story, especially as they faced assaults from within and without. Constantine adopted Christianity (as many Emperors adopted all sorts of spiritual notions) and the story became entwined with what was left of the might, authority and power of the fading Roman Empire and would be reborn later in Constantinople and catapulted throughout all of Europe under the Holy Roman Empire - and the construct would be complete - God rules - Jesus came to Earth as the transfer from God to Man, and his vicar on earth, originally the Emperors, then the Pope and from the Pope to Holy Roman Kings, then Queens, all their Authority carried and supported through the Resurrection story
To me, if anyone had motive to hide Jesus’ body, it was not the post crucifixion apostles nor was it the Jews. It was Rome who needed a Resurrected Christ - and Rome had a long, long history of adopting religions over centuries and various Emperors creating religions to propel their power.
