CNN crawl: THE BONES OF JESUS

[SoCalDem]

:wtf:

Must be a slow-Anna news day :)

[Lex]

1. Wonder if they'll hold an Anna-like trial about re-burying Jesus.

:crazy:

[SoCalDem]

4. His mother is demanding custody of the bones.. Mary Magdalen had "no comment"

[WinkyDink]

7. I hear His Father might want a say.

[SoCalDem]

10. But but but, you KNOW he wanted to be buried in the Bahamas..by Anna Nicole's son

:evilgrin:

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. Oy, what about the judge!

What about the judge!

[SoCalDem]

21. apparently he was asked to be on tee-vee

:puke:

[Joe for Clark]

6. That is funny -

I am waiting for the DNA tests, myself.

I heard this - read this - just who is responsible for this PR crap????

Joe

[C_U_L8R]

2. Oh Jesus!

doh.

[kenny blankenship]

3. Any pictures or words on the contents of Jesus' 'death fridge'?

[SoCalDem]

5. Frankincense, Myrrh, and some blue fuzzy meat in a butter tub

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. This thing was discovered & discredited in the 80's.

It would be like a re-do of the Eric Von Daniken thing.

[SoCalDem]

23. Quick.. get Geraldo on it,,. He's not busy these days :) n/t

[Warpy]

9. BONES????

Oops.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17345429/

Claims about Jesus’ ‘lost tomb’ stir up tempest

JERUSALEM - Archaeologists and clergymen in the Holy Land derided claims in a new documentary produced by James Cameron that contradict major Christian tenets, but the Oscar-winning director said the evidence was based on sound statistics.

"The Lost Tomb of Christ," which the Discovery Channel will run on March 4, argues that 10 ancient ossuaries — small caskets used to store bones — discovered in a suburb of Jerusalem in 1980 may have contained the bones of Jesus and his family, according to a press release issued by the Discovery Channel.

One of the caskets even bears the title, "Judah, son of Jesus," hinting that Jesus may have had a son. And the very fact that Jesus had an ossuary would contradict the Christian belief that he was resurrected and ascended to heaven.
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Personally, I think the whole thing would be better served if Jesus turned out to be a man, not a god, but that's just me. His followers would be relieved of the ability to make a copout that his precepts couldn't possibly be followed the way he himself followed them because he was a god and we're only human beings.

Give the theologians enough time, they'll rewrite the resurrection and ascension into heaven. I have no faith in gods or their religions, but I do have great faith in theologians to justify both.

[kansasblue]

12. Bones? shouldn't it be empty?

[SoCalDem]

13. I alwasy was told that the SOUL ascended, and the "earthly remains" stayed

:shrug:

[Art_from_Ark]

18. But didn't the two ladies go to the tomb

and find it empty? :shrug:

[kenny blankenship]

19. They probably had to bury Jesus many, many times

Even if this is the right Jesus we have no way of knowing whether this grave site is from his first burial or his thirtieth.

[SoCalDem]

20. Vergie Arthur beat them to the tomb

:)

[Perky]

16. AHH SOME ACTUAL THEOLOGICAL MEAT

The notion of Jesuse as Deity on earth is an interesting issue.

If He said do what I do..and yet he was doing it as deitiy. We could never measure....he cheated....not fair....Although such a position requires one to accept his divinity.

On the other hand, if he was not divine, but said he was perhaps a mad man, but acting with great power to heal and with great humility.

The four Gospel account all written seperately sugges that he was was in fact Divine , but that he took on the nature of man and for the season on earth empties himeself of his divine nature.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

11. Pieces of his skelton are for sale in the Al Franken museum gift shop

at least according to the last chapter of "Why Not Me?"

[walldude]

15. Bones? "Jim, I'm a doctor not a theologist!"

James Cameron makes me want to vomit. Now he has as much credibility as Geraldo.

[DemoTex]

17. Well, that fixes what the LTE's here in BoJo Country will be for a few days.

BoJo = Bob Jones University (Greenville, SC)

[devilgrrl]

22. Who wants to bet those bones belong to JIMMY HOFFA?

:silly: