Posted on 04/30/2024 5:51:47 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
If you’ve ever visited Jerusalem, you may have noticed that two different locations are identified as Golgotha. And since the tomb of Jesus was right next to Golgotha (according to John 19:41-42), there are also two different tombs.
Which one is real, and which one isn’t?
And does it matter?
The first site of Golgotha is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Originally built in the 4th century, it’s situated within the current walls of the Old City, and at the heart of the Christian Quarter. It’s the end station of the Via Dolorosa pilgrimage road and has been venerated as the original Golgotha and Tomb of Jesus for many centuries. It was built and managed by the Eastern Roman Byzantine (Greek Orthodox) church, but since the Crusades, it has been shared with the Catholics, as well. Today, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is managed by the Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Armenian, Coptic, Syriac and Ethiopian churches under a complicated status-quo agreement from 1757. It is considered a very “high church,” with an abundance of incense, candles and statues, with everything under one roof.
The second site identified as Golgotha is the Garden Tomb in Jerusalem. Established in the late 19th century, this site is located outside the Old City and is managed by a British non-denominational charitable trust that is a member of the World Evangelical Alliance.
(Excerpt) Read more at allisrael.com ...
——>Who knows what it looked like 2000 years ago?
Probably even more distinct AS A SKULL, which it still certainly resembles.
——>Rocks erode over time.
All of the stones used to build Jerusalem...walls, temple, etc... were quarried behind the Golgotha site (you can see the quarry opening in the picture. Many of those remain and can still be seen today, relatively intact. Look at the pyramids of Egypt. They’re still around even after being built some 2000 years before Christ.
——>The traditional explanation for “Place of the Skull” is that it’s where Adam was buried.
Traditional “Catholic” explanation?
How could anyone know where Adam was buried, especially after the carnage of the flood, after it destroyed the earth? Not a chance.
Golgotha was outside the front gates of the city
It was a place for public executions
Christ was beaten at the Roman Patreon in Jerusalem. That’s also where Pilot lived. Christ was then made to walk with His cross right outside the front gate to where he would be executed, at Golgotha.
The traditional “Catholic” site is nowhere near the front gate or the Patreon. It’s ridiculous to think that Christ would have walked that far with his cross, after the beating He took by the Roman soldiers.
Public executions at Golgotha included stoning. When Ron Wyatt excavated the Golgotha site, he found many of finger bones of those victims who died trying to protect themselves by shielding the rocks with their hands. Some of their fingers were ripped off. Their dead bodies were taken away to be buried or burned, but some of them remained....fingers.
Ron also found the cross holes.
Is it a coincidence that Golgotha is the highest point on Mount Moriah, and probably the exact place where Abraham was to sacrifice Isaac, which was the type for Christ’s sacrifice? The Catholic site has none of this.
https://wyattmuseum.com/the-excavation-begins/2011-312
https://hebronfund.org/cave-machpelah-overview/
...The Cave of Machpela has an ancient history dating back to the earliest man and woman in the Bible.
Adam and Eve are said to be buried in the cave, the first of four couples to be buried there.
The Cave of Machpela and the field around it were Abraham’s first acquisition in the Land that God promised to him and his descendants...
Praetorian, not Patreon. Sorry.
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