Holy Land

[coco2]

I hope this is the proper place for this question. Has anyone been to the Holy Land? I just read something that gave me the impression that Protestants think that the place where Jesus was crucified is in a different place that Catholics think he was crucified. Same thing with the Tomb. How can this be possible? Wouldn’t the Catholic tradition of where these places are be correct since they must have been visited for many centuries before Protestant churches erupted?

 

[jonbhorton]

I hope this is the proper place for this question. Has anyone been to the Holy Land? I just read something that gave me the impression that Protestants think that the place where Jesus was crucified is in a different place that Catholics think he was crucified. Same thing with the Tomb. How can this be possible? Wouldn’t the Catholic tradition of where these places are be correct since they must have been visited for many centuries before Protestant churches erupted?

It would help to read the same sources, for the sources you read might not be a general Protestant opinion.

All you’re going to receive is speculation until it can even be determined what your source is, who put it out, under what basis, how the issue was studied, and why the traditional opinions are wrong.

 

[GEddie]

I’ve been there.

I went there in 2009 with a Catholic pilgrim group, which of course visited the classical holy sites of Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Bethany, Galilee, etc.

For some sites, i.e., Bethany and in Galilee, there is no controversy. For others, such as the Holy Sepulcher church (which holds both the site of the Cross and the tomb, in fact the last seven stations of the Via Crucis are all in there) there is disagreement, because the church lies within the wall, while crucifixions would have taken place outside. But the wall of Jerusalem was expanded ca. AD50.

I’d trust the Catholic/Orthodox locations, as these were well known by the time of the Crusades, long before the Protestants came around.

And not all Protestants disagree, either. Some Protestant pilgrims visit the traditional 1800 year-old locations.

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