Archive for February 27th, 2007

Jesus’ Titanic

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

According to director James Cameron (Titanic) this is the century’s greatest archaeological find.

This photo released in 2002 by the Biblical Archaeological Society(BAS) shows a bone box or ossuary which was found along with 10 ossuries with names etched into them in the Talpiot neighbourhood of Jerusalem during the construction of an appartment building in the 1980s. A documentary by

Cameron claims that Jesus ossuary has been found along with his “wife” Mary Magdalene and “son” Judah. The problem with this story is that although the same grave contained the names, Mary, Mary the Master, Judah son of Jesus, and Jesus son of Joseph, these were all very common names in the first century.

Update: Check out this news report. The reporter actually says, “With a story this good, facts are not going to get in the way.”

Update II: Cameron is claiming to have found Jesus’ bones, etc. However, not one has ever been able to explain away the empty tomb. Who rolled the stone away under Roman guard? Why would grave robbers fold the burial cloth? Why would the disciples think to mention the cloth? No one in all of history from that time refuted the claim of the empty tomb, they only sought to explain it away. Why would eleven men die (torturously) for a lie? One of them would have finally said, “Stop, we made it up!” They didn’t. Christ is real. He was fully man and fully God. That is the only way my sins could have been paid for on the cross. He reversed the curse of Adam, by living sinless and dying in my place.