(May 26, 2009 at 12:05 pm)chatpilot Wrote: In my view there was no historical Christ my reasons for this are many.If you are referring to the ossuary that had the inscription "here lies James the brother of Christ" it was proven later on to be a forgery as most christian relics turn out to be in the long run.
http://www.archaeology.org/online/news/ossuary3.html
The evidence for the forgery is not overwhelming. The main problem with the ossuary is the provendence. I have talked to a Bible scholar close to the case. He knows the people involved and believes the James ossuary was the work of recent (1980's) grave robbers. Under the law it belongs to the state. The "owner" is attempting to say the artifact has been around longer, so he can keep it. His lies contradict each other, giving the ossuary an appearance of forgery. The patina on the ossuary is very similar to that found in the Jesus tomb. Insiders believe the James ossuary to be the missing ossuary from the Jesus tomb.
However, if this is the tomb of the same historical Jesus in the Bible, he would have been married with a son, and clearly never resurrected, i.e. not much of a god. While this evidence makes Jesus historical, it at the same time denies his divinity.
Personally I like this option as it solves many questions, and asks a lot of fun ones, however my preference for the truth doesn't make it so.
"On Earth as it is in Heaven, the Cosmic Roots of the Bible" available on the Amazon.
