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Finding the bones of the apostles might make this guy’s day, but the apostles themselves would shake their heads since their every goal was to put the focus on Christ and the power of the Gospel. As far as having the bones of Christ, I know this to be false - for a fact. He rose, ascended into heaven and sent his Holy Spirit who is living in the humble confines of millions of hearts.
What’s next? The discovery of the widow’s mite? lol.
What is a block of flats?
There is a difference between disciples, believers, and apostles, the twelve men especially taught by Jesus. Those men went far and wide and are buried in diverse places.
According to tradition, most of the 12 apostles left Jerusalem, and what is known of their ultimate fate seems to be based more on tradition than on hard factual knowledge. Almost all are said to have been martyred at various locations ranging from Rome to Armenia and India. Only John is thought to have died in his bed.
Like most news stories, the reporter got it wrong or at least chose to use words that make the most shocking ‘news’. I don’t believe the project’s leaders make the argument that this is the tomb of Apostles. Even the word ‘disciples’ takes on an enlarged meaning similar to ‘Apostles’ in many Christians today and is used interchangeably.
I suggest you go to the following site of Dr. James Tabor, head of the Dept. of Religion at U. North Carolina. Dr. Tabor has run archeological digs all over Israel for over 20 years. He was part of the team that worked on this project and has written a new book on the discoveries in the tomb.
With all of the archeological discoveries being made in Israel these days, such as King David’s palace or the homes of some of the Temple priests during the time of Jesus, I don’t understand why there is total negativity about the possibility that archeological discoveries can be made relating to the very early years of Christianity.
After all, the Gospels were written down long after his cruxifiction and the Resurrection and could contain only information that was passed down orally by believers to one another.
These ossuaries may contain evidence of very early followers of Jesus in Jerusalem who believed in his Resurrection. And I would think that is exciting news for Christians today.
There are no bones of Christ. He is risen!
Ishtar...ugh, I mean EASTER must be coming.
Hey, make sure the Catholic church hears about this. They could carve up those remains into literally thousands of fragments and distribute them around the world to all their churches so that parishioners can pray to them.
Simcha Jacobovic has some interesting ideas but (A) I think some of his interpretations are, to put it kindly, unlikely and (B) he’s heavily biased toward his own Judaism such that he favors interpretations that favor showing Judaism is accurate but, again to put it kindly, applies a different standard to Christian evidence, favoring interpretations that show Christianity is inaccurate. I don’t dislike him and like some of his ideas about historical Judaism, but I’m far more skeptical about his pronouncements about Christianity, including this one.
Amateur is right. He only gets publicity from the fake “history” type TV channels. And after 200 years of intensive archeology isn’t it strange that nearly every year he has a new “find” to debunk Christianity?