The Lost Tomb of Jesus – I
I’m actually curious about the ratings Discovery will get for the documentary on the 4th… (Them and the other stations broadcasting it in the first stage.) Now if the inscriptions were correctly translated, as common as those names might have been at the time, still… To find tombs reading Jesus son of Joseph, Matthew, Mary, Mary Magdalene, Joseph and Judas son of Jesus and claim it’s someone else is, as Cameron put it, “like finding tombs reading Ringo, Paul, George and John and claim it’s someone else.” Oh, plus the symbol above the entrance that’s also found on many important early Christian artifacts.
But if the reaction was violent enough to prove there’s some truth behind Dan Brown’s fiction, I can imagine what comes next… As Discovery Channel’s site says, finding the body negates neither the resurrection nor a spiritual ascension, but only a physical one. And if there was a resurrection, it means there was a death first. And why wouldn’t somebody who could die once be able to die a second time? And a physical ascension makes no sense. I mean if you see somebody shooting upwards you either think you’re witnessing an alien abduction or that said person had been sitting on a geyser. A spiritual one is a different thing entirely, and involves leaving the physical body behind, as in dying. But it would confirm something too, the fact that Jesus actually existed…
A possible interesting complication would be a voluntary spiritual ascension, more commonly known as suicide. That should change certain policies, if true. Another is Mary Magdalene, which is already a theory accepted by many, but the proof would demand more attitude changes towards the importance of women and sex. A son complicates things further, with the rumors of a secret order claiming they are the descendants of Jesus and Mary Magdalene (which is what Dan Brown based his book on), and who would become entitled to pull the thrones from under the asses of all those who have cozy places currently reserved in the present Christian structures and sit on them themselves. And yet another is the son’s name, Judas. I didn’t notice anybody pointing it out, but I doubt you name your son after the one who betrayed you. So this would support the Gospel of Judas, yet another blow.
If they’d think for a moment they’d realize it doesn’t negate certain things and would try to see what they could do starting from that fact. But the violent reaction (and I assume we have seen nothing yet) only confirms that there are many more secrets in danger of being revealed. And, in these circumstances, who the occupant of that grave really is becomes quite irrelevant.
