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Are these the nails used to crucify Jesus?
Haaretz.com ^ | 4-12-11 | Nir Hasson

Posted on 04/12/2011 2:48:23 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic

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To: LeGrande

Iron will be the last element standing when this universe dies, so yes. Also yes if the conditions are correct, the iron nails can last a very long time. those nails have likely lost half their size over time if not more.


21 posted on 04/12/2011 3:37:50 PM PDT by aft_lizard (Barack Obama is Hugo Chavez's poodle.)
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To: madamemayhem

I’m pretty sure that I have the hammer. I had to replace the handle, then the head, but it does occupy the same space.


22 posted on 04/12/2011 3:39:36 PM PDT by Yohan
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Bullshit...


23 posted on 04/12/2011 3:43:28 PM PDT by wendy1946
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To: Levante

Interestingly enough, I was recently in Istanbul where they have what are claimed to be remnants of Mohammed’s beard as well as the hand and skull of John the Baptist and the Staff Moses used to part the Red Sea on display in Topkapi Palace.


24 posted on 04/12/2011 3:47:29 PM PDT by Behemothpanzer (You are entitled to your own opinion. You are not entitled to your own facts.)
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To: aft_lizard

Well the element may last a long time, but how long is a bloody nail buried in the ground going to last? Fifty, a hundred years?

I can find steel nails that corroded in my fathers shed.


25 posted on 04/12/2011 4:04:56 PM PDT by LeGrande (Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.)
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To: LeGrande

If the conditions are right a very long time, a dry cave in a desert region and a very large nail and you have a recipe for a long existence. Buried in the ground in a country like the US and they wont last long.


26 posted on 04/12/2011 4:07:26 PM PDT by aft_lizard (Barack Obama is Hugo Chavez's poodle.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Not the same nails or they’d already be in Rome with the gazillion other “artifacts”.


27 posted on 04/12/2011 4:11:39 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Of course Obama loves his country. The thing is, Sarah loves mine.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

If they have my name on them, then yes, those are the nails. My sins nailed him to the cross.


28 posted on 04/12/2011 4:47:04 PM PDT by irishtenor (Everything in moderation, however, too much whiskey is just enough... Mark Twain)
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To: aft_lizard

Sure if the conditions are perfect, which they weren’t (by the rust we can see). But that begs my original point, which Christ are they supposed to be from?


29 posted on 04/12/2011 4:51:36 PM PDT by LeGrande (Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.)
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To: LeGrande
I don't care about that aspect really. But they have found Roman nails before, and will find them in the future, here is a good condition set from Hungary, pretty similar in build to the ones in the thread:
30 posted on 04/12/2011 5:11:53 PM PDT by aft_lizard (Barack Obama is Hugo Chavez's poodle.)
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To: Nightshift

gnip


31 posted on 04/12/2011 5:13:14 PM PDT by tutstar
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To: aft_lizard

I have a Roman Coin, so I know that metal from the Roman era has survived. I also happen to know that 99+% of the metal from the Roman era is gone, rusted or worn away.

Are you trying to make the point that those rusty nails are the ones that they used on a Christ? If not, I don’t know what your problem is.


32 posted on 04/12/2011 5:49:11 PM PDT by LeGrande (Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.)
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To: Revolting cat!

Congratulations.

I know weird.

You just set a new high mark.

LOL


33 posted on 04/12/2011 6:31:07 PM PDT by bigheadfred (Beat me, Bite me...Make Me Write Bad Checks)
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To: wendy1946

Hah. You nailed it.


34 posted on 04/12/2011 6:34:35 PM PDT by bigheadfred (Beat me, Bite me...Make Me Write Bad Checks)
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To: Levante

Islamic cultures have reports of miracles where words, rather than images, appear. This corresponds to their text based faith. Various words from the Quran are found in pictures of clouds, in eggplant seeds, in the segments of a pomegranite ... etc.

Iranians like a good miracle story, and they had a WEEPING TREE. Like a weeping icon, in the Orthodox world. Believers said it wept on significant holy days.


35 posted on 04/12/2011 7:48:16 PM PDT by BlackVeil
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To: afraidfortherepublic
There is a book in print Whatever happened to the Relics of Our Lord's Passion and Death? by a Catholic priest, Paul Stenhouse. I have not read it, but he is known to be very learned and thorough.
36 posted on 04/12/2011 7:58:18 PM PDT by BlackVeil
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To: chs68
As far as I am concerned, there is no basis for Christian anti-Semitism

There is a basis for this -- it's an easy way of putting the blame on someone else. We forget that it was actually ALL of our sins that Christ took on the Cross. It was actually ALL of us standing there saying "Crucify him"

37 posted on 04/13/2011 1:24:05 AM PDT by Cronos (Christian, redneck, rube and proud of it!)
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To: LeGrande

Did you miss me saying “I do not care about that aspect” or are you just trying to argue just for arguments sake? Either way if you do not have time to accept the small point I am making then don’t bother posing the question in the first place. I stating with fact that NAILS from that era have survived, those nails in the picture are from Pannonia, an ancient era from the first and second AD. I am not nor have I made statement on whether those nails are Christs, I was simply answering your question about the nails. If you do not care to receive an answer on that then you should ask the mods to delete you initial question or forever hold your mouth on it.


38 posted on 04/13/2011 2:30:21 AM PDT by aft_lizard (Barack Obama is Hugo Chavez's poodle.)
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To: Cronos

But sadly, we had classic cases of having what is called “scape goats”.


39 posted on 04/13/2011 3:40:37 AM PDT by Biggirl ("The Best Of Times, The Worse Of Times", Charles Dickens)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

They do look very ancient.


40 posted on 04/13/2011 3:42:54 AM PDT by Biggirl ("The Best Of Times, The Worse Of Times", Charles Dickens)
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