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It knocks Christianity off its feet.


After watching this documentary, I tend to agree that this is probably very damaging evidence to Christianity. Why? It knocks off its feet (or rather debunks) the very fumdamental tenet of Chritianity's promise of a life after death - so to speak. It means that the Resurrection never happened. The Ascension never happened. The promise of immortality is all a sham. Why? The very mortal remains of the person who preached it, who advocated it, who is claimed to have conquered death itself, have been found!

The theologians & scholars can claim that the scriptures never say that the Ascension of Jesus was either a "physical" or a "spiritual" one. They can also say that the Resurrection either happened after the 1st or 2nd tomb or vice-versa. Well, that pretty much leaves room for doubt from what we were taught in Sunday school.

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Anythings possible.

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You could already doubt Christianity long before this.

And it WOULD be a powerful "debunking" of Christian belief if it were true, but thankfully we can all go home because it isn't anything of the sort.


Simcha Jacobovici and Mr. Cameron just went off half-cocked to leap on this like the (non-scholarly) publicity hounds they are.

What credible scholar has agreed with their identification of this as the actual tomb of Jesus of Nazareth (called the Messiah) and his family? Even the biggest supporter, Dr. James Tabor, has only given it a hopeful "maybe" (is he still doing that anymore? all the other scholars quoted or mentioned on the doco have denied its conclusions or even gone out of their way to say they were misquoted).


It seems this is just another of the dozens of random tombs of some Jewish folks out there. It didn't make a big splash in the 1980's because experts examined it back then and didn't think it was the "Lost Tomb of Jesus," and no new evidence has come to light since then that really tells us anything we didn't know before (and no, the forgery that is the James Ossuary does not count). Looking at the stuff up close is fine, but it doesn't make this conspiracy theory anymore true.

Simcha has no credibility whatsoever. His earlier "Exodus Decoded" was debunked by scholars as laughable. He's just an indie filmmaker who happens to be an Orthodox Jew. James Cameron may be an awardwinning filmmaker, but he's no scholar or scientist either...

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by another stupid flaming atheist about this stupid piece of crap fraud flick. Like flies to a cowpie.

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I will never believe on this documentary until they OPEN the SEAL and send at least 50 scientists members of all kinds of religions to investigate the place and release a full document about what they think of the veracity of the tomb.

You must be joking if you believe on a documentary made by the "enemies" of Christian-ism. Jews and Muslins and Buddists are not Christians and should be prohibited to do documentaries about it.

A few Questions:

1- This is the biggest discovery in history of man kind, and I am sure to be the first big discovery to be completely SEALED by ISRAEL after one single crew investigated. They didn't seal Pharaoh, or the Pyramids, or any other gigantic discovery, but this one was sealed by the Israeli government.

2- Isn't coincidence that the only crew to investigate is the same crew of the documentary? And basing on the documentary, no one else will ever put their foot inside the tomb again. Wow... Amazing...

3- I am astonished that the same people who found the Scrolls of Judas, now made a second gigantic discovery, being the tomb of Jesus. These people are SO lucky to make TWO gigantic discoveries in a life time, what will they find [coff build coff!] next?

4- This documentary has one objective: Destroy Christian-ism. How can people allow [Jews/any other religion] to do this kind of documentary? Wanting or not, it is in history books that Jews and Christians were huge religious enemies. Today we are no longer enemies, but... seriously... This is like Republicans vs Democrats, they both have different ideals and will never change.

5- Biggest discovery in history of man kind, and no one cares? No one wants NOR CAN go there investigate? Why is that? Isn't odd to you?

6- Israel actually sealed the TOMB of JESUS? It could be the TOMB OF JESUS and they SEALED? OMG... This is totally stupid... think guys, just think... You can't actually believe on this documentary... its bs. The only reason to SEAL the biggest discovery in history of man kind, is to HIDE that the discovery is a hoax.

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