Was Jesus' Resurrection a Sequel?

[chaz0426]

Anyone hear of this story?
time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1820685,00.html

I was reading a time magazine today at the hospital and saw this. What do you make of it?

It’d be nice to get some news someday that supports the validity of Jesus and the gospels.

The last one that supported Catholicism was the shroud of turin and people even tried to prove that false.

In middle school I remember hearing about the dead sea scrolls, the Gnostic Gospels, Jesus’s family tomb, the stone box that read “James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus”.

Then the Da Vinci Code in High School and while I read the book and actually thought it was a good book and read some of his other books like “Angles and Demons” but there was no thought in my mind as taking it as “non-fiction” like all the documentaries, news and media did.

I call it a test of faith.

Anyone else agree?

 

[Trishie]

May God increase the faith of anyone who may at times be unsettled by doubts and fictions. May God give them a strong and blessed faith. May all God’s blessing of faith and trust be yours also!

 

[Christophorus72]

It’d be nice to get some news someday that supports the validity of Jesus and the gospels.

Do you really need it? Isn’t the Word of God valid enough?

 

[Crow]

If ever a discovery was made to historically validate the ressurection of the Lord, it would immediately be twisted ad nperverted to support disbelief.

 

[Pons]

the stone box that read “James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus”.

I think this was proven to be fake, but if it was real, wouldn’t it support our faith? (Jesus having stepbrothers - Joseph’s children but not Mary’s - is possible, according to our Eastern brethren.)

“Angles and Demons”

Don’t mean to tease, but that brings to mind math teachers and/or 6th century tribesmen versus the supernatural. Awesome.

 

[Eden]

The problem with the tablet is the fact that crucial words are missing. So, the Jewish historian is drawing conclusions from an incomplete text. This is not, in any way, the revolutionary find he had wished it to be.

 

[chaz0426]

I am in no way saying this casts doubt on my faith, I just find things like this interesting. Every few years or so biblical finds come up. Some make the news some don’t. In this story I say too much is missing from it to say or prove anything but it is surely interesting.

 

[Wyatt]

If this is true, then why doesn’t this supposed “first messiah” have a church that is 2,000 years old?

 

[catholic1seeks]

This was on there too:

“In 2007 the Discovery Channel aired a documentary (funded by Titanic director James Cameron) that purported to have located the “Jesus Family Tomb” in the Israeli suburb of Talpiot, with bone boxes with the names “Jesus Son of Joseph,” “Mary” and one of the names of Mary Magdalene. If the ossuaries were for the gospel Jesus, his mother and Mary Magdalene, then the implications for Christianity would be dire; but despite considerable initial hoopla, the idea is regarded by many as speculation.”

 

[BPW75]

In middle school I remember hearing about the dead sea scrolls…

Personally, I find the Dead Sea Scrolls to be one of modern science’s greatest contributions to the Christian faith.

The discovery demolishes the claim of Islam that the Scriptures were corrupted as they were able to date them back to before Christ (let alone Mohammed).

I encourage you to read a Dead Sea Scroll’s version of Isaiah 53 and Psalm 22 and look for Jesus in those verses. And for extra credit, look for Mohammed in them. I don’t think you’ll find him.

 

[Cairone]

Mark Shea had an article on this at Inside Catholic:
The Latest Historical Attack on Jesus Falls Flat

 

[Rawb]

I like these quotes, myself:

such a contentious reading of the 87-line tablet depends on creative interpretation of a smudged passage, making it the latest entry in the woulda/coulda/shoulda category of possible New Testament artifacts

Even the authors of its initial research seem a little dubious about his claims that it is a dry run for the Easter story

The verb that Knohl translates as “rise!,” Witherington says, could also mean “there arose,” and so one can ask "does it mean ‘he comes to life,’ i.e., a resurrection, or that he just ‘shows up?’ "