Did anyone watch the movie on the Discovery Channel called "The Tomb Of Jesus?"

I personally didn't watch it...to be totally honest with everyone I thought it was gonna be a disgrace to make a movie such as that! But that is only my personal opinion!

I was just curious as if to anyone esle might have watched it and had a comment!

Katt

I found it to be very interesting. I watched it because there are lots of unanswered questions about the death of Jesus. The tomb they found was very interesting, and the writing on the ossuaries (special boxes to place bones of the deceased in, after the body has decomposed) had some very thought provoking coincidences about them. They also found some very old writings that they thought may have been a part of the Bible at one time, or at least described what was happening at the time that the bodies were placed in this tomb. It looked like the tomb may have contained several members of Jesus' family.

However, local officials chased them out before they had more than 2 days to study what was there... so maybe someday, someone will get back in, and be able to learn more.

Hopefully, they will show this again, as I would like to see it all again. I love archaeology, and the studies of past civilizations, etc. This was a very interesting show.

Mare

Rats, I didn't get to see it. I heard about it. I saw the book in a book store about it.

I didn't want to post about this hear for the conflicts it might create. People take religious beliefs rather personally.

I'd like to catch that show. I did see some other shows that in part covered this estuary and the tombs. Supposedly a couple of archeologists have some more information and evidence that points to that these may be the tombs of Jesus, Mary, Mary and ... I forgot the other names mentioned.

I can't imagine the strife that will come of this if they do find evidence that proves it. I can't imagine how they could prove it, but imagine if they did.

I recorded it but have not watched it yet. I find it interesting and will let you know what I think after I view it. =)

sorry to say I missed it. no doubt will stir up a nother stink.it has been said some book's of the bible were written 60 years a.d. written& re written. not to mention the lost book's of the bible.

Yes, you are right, Grim Reaper. Then there are the books that were tidily removed by King James, creating the King James version, which is still popular today. With other books that are missing, too, over the centuries... I doubt that the complete version of the Bible will ever be totally reassembled in it's supposed original form.
How will we know? I don't see how we can ever be sure.

It has always bothered me that so much of the Bible was written so long after the fact. I had a Catholic priest tell me once that most of the Bible was passed along like stories told around the campfire, until someone finally came along who knew how to write, and they became the "scribe" for whatever portion. Not many people knew how to write, and most stories were passed by word of mouth from generation to generation. That was just the priest's viewpoint, but I think it is possible that it happened in some similar fashion.

I'm sure it did. But you know how stories change over time when different people tell it. Like the telephone game. While I agree with some of the messages or lessons in those stories, I have a difficult time taking them literally. I believe that it's possible the names of the people in the Bible are real people of the time but whether or not they actually said or did as the Bible tells, that's up for debate because we weren't there ourselves.

Yes, I recall seeing something happen several years ago, and I have remembered it as a great example of how things get distorted between the actual happening and the writing that is done about it.

I saw a city bus in a sinkhole at a busy intersection near my home. The hole was full of water, and the front of the bus was about 4 feet above ground, while the back was buried up to the back window in a hole in the street full of water. It was right next to the store where I used to shop, and there were news people on the scene. So, I rushed home, and turned on the news for the stations that I saw represented there. Nothing was even mentioned on the news. However, in the newspaper the next day, back in the pages people seldom read, was a tiny article that told of a leak in the city water main at that intersection the day before, and that a city bus driver reported the leak. Say what??? I should hope he reported the leak, AND the huge hole that nearly swallowed his bus! No mention was ever made about the hole full of water, nor the fact that the bus had actually fallen into it in a normal traffic lane of this busy street.

This was a very good lesson on how things get distorted in the telling, to suit someone's agenda that didn't want this to come across quite as it happened. Or, perhaps they were using just the "facts" told to them by others? I think this is true of writings from the beginning of mankind's learning to write, and I think we can always expect distortions, and things being left out, especially when it happened so many years before the story was written down. The writer very likely did not even witness the event... he hadn't been born yet! So, it was pieced together on what he had been told by others, who also did not witness the event.

First off, by writing what I'm writing below I'm not trying to invalidate the Bible. I'm just relaying some facts discovered.

I read a book some time back about what some biblical scholars and language scholars can tell from the bible.
They report that many of the 'books' of the bible were not written by the same person. That the words, sentence structures, overall composition show that some books were started by one person and continued by someone else from another time period. Some books show to be written by multiple persons. Some books show that they could not have been written by the person who they are attributed to. Some were written in a time long after the person who lived who was supposed to have written them.
As I said above, this doesn't invalidate the Bible. Possibly they were written or copied from other texts. Maybe just translated as best as could be done. Like how our calender is innacurate. Language is a hard thing to translate. Especially when you try to convert the etheric to words.
Tell me, what is love? No description will ever compare.

I ask you'where can you go. and find folk's like these.not afraid to see another view point (grin) keep up the good work.

Nakis, you are right, and who can really vouch for what actually happened? None of us were there, and unless we can find some sort of evidence that can be placed in a test tube, and that will reveal unquestionable results, we will never know for sure. Some things in our world cannot be explained, at least not in terms that mankind will understand. Love is a good example. It is much like the wind... we can feel it, and we can see it's effects, but we can't see it and we can't put it in a test tube.

Thanks, GrimReaper, for your comment about our wonderful folks here at SpiritKeep. I have learned it is always good to grant every person the right to his/her own personal reality. No two people will think exactly alike about anything, but our similarities usually outweigh our differences, when we look deep enough... and that is a blessing in itself! =) I am very thankful for all of our open-minded friends here at SpiritKeep, and we can discuss many things (and learn, too) when we don't take offense to what another person believes.

Blessings to all of you!

Mare