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Could Christ’s Coffin Have Finally Been Discovered in Jerusalem?

Any Christian will tell you that Christ’s body is irretrievable, given the resurrection. But could his empty coffin have been found? The Daily Mail has a story that suggests as much may be the case.

The story begins with a controversial archaeological find from the 1980′s colloquially called the “Jesus Family Tomb” — a 1st century building that archaeologists believed contained the remains of the family of Christ. This particular find spurred controversy because one implication was that Christ may have been married and raised children (presumably with Mary Magdalene). Protests by Orthodox Jews who objected to the disturbance of a burial site ended any official investigation into the building prematurely…until now.

James Tabor, a scriptural scholar from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and his partner Simcha Jacobovici, a documentary filmmaker, recently obtained permission to do further excavation around the site of the “Jesus Family Tomb.” They found another, more carefully hidden tomb, jokingly dubbed the “Patio Tomb” because its discovery indicates that it would sit right beneath the Patio of the Jesus Family Tomb.

Coffin That May Have Belonged to Jesus Christ Unearthed by Archaeologists

And what was in the “Patio Tomb?” Apparently, a series of limestone “Bone Boxes” dated to the 1st century, one of which bears a lid with the inscription “Divine Jehovah, raise up, raise up.” Moreover, it carries an image of a fish with a stick figure in its mouth, which scholars believe may be designed to represent Jonah and the Whale, one of the first explicitly Christian prophets, and a symbol of Christ’s resurrection:

Coffin That May Have Belonged to Jesus Christ Unearthed by Archaeologists

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  • Reaganite71
    Posted on March 1, 2012 at 12:42am

    If Yeshua was not the Son of God and raised from the dead, the people that knew him best, spent day and night with him for years, would NOT have gone to the their deaths via stoning, burning, beheadings, inverted crucifixion, etc.

    I also doubt one of the chief persecutors, Paul, would have been willing to have his head lopped off had he not had a face to face meeting with him. These men had chances to spare their lives, if they would deny Him, and yet were faithful unto horrid deaths. They knew the TRUTH.

    Then you consider that Yeshua’s arrvial as Messiah in Jerusalem was prophecied in Daniel 9 TO THE DAY and there can be no doubt the Bible and He were of God. (See here: http://tinyurl.com/83elpj8 ) In Dan9, 483 years (of 360 days ea.) were to pass between the command to rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah arrived and would be “cut off”.

    Artaxerxes Longimanus gave the order on March 14, 445BC. Yeshua entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday April 6th, 32 AD (173,880 days or 483 years)! Some will say those prophecies in Daniel are so accurate, that they had to have been written later, but consider that it was apart of the Septuagent greek translation 300 years before Christ!

    Bible prophecy. 100% accurate over 66 books, pened by 40 men over thousands of years.
    Yeshua was the Son of God, he DID die for us as THE perfect sacrifice to take away sin, and he DID rise again so that we will too one day.

    Scoffers can look in all the bone boxes they like. They won’t fin

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    • mavsfan75
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 4:45am

      if he wasn’t the messiah, his followers wouldn’t have died for him??? really? Does that mean that Jim Jones, David Koresh, or Marshall Applewhite were also Messiahs? Cause their followers died for them as well. You‘re gonna have to bring something to the argument other than that if you want to convince people you’re right. If I ask a Chevy salesman why Chevy is so good and he brings out a brochure and tells me, because it says so in this brochure, well that doesn’t really mean much does it. You can’t quote the bible as a source of truth for the bible!!!

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    • hogtrashhd
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 5:50am

      mavs.. jim jones was a cultist and accordingto reports of the people who died most did not want to die.. in fact many were shot.. koresh‘s people didn’t want to die either… janet reno made it happen by burning them to death.. sooooo you don’t make sense….

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    • iwillworship
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 5:07pm

      Mavs, Many will die for what they believe to be true but no one will die for what they know to be a lie. These disciples knew Jesus, spent 3 years with him, saw him crucified and saw him raised from the dead. If they knew all this to be a lie they would have remained locked up in the their homes. They had no riches to gain, they were ridiculed, beaten, stoned and eventually killed for the faith they professed. A person does not willingly die a torturous death for what they know to be a lie.

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    • commonsensefreethinker1
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 5:23pm

      funny how convenient it is as long as the cofins are empty proves jesus was resurected, sorry but no cigar .Show some real evidence please THIS IS GETTING SOOOOOOOOOOOOO OLD. I mean come on!! … compared to 190 million year old dinosaur bones it was not that long ago show me something that proved your ancient Chris Angel existed.

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    • black9897
      Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:18am

      News flash: Jesus didn’t have a coffin, so this of course is fake.

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  • TyrannyNoMore
    Posted on March 1, 2012 at 12:25am

    http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/28/tomb-jonah-discovered-finder-lost-tomb-jesus-claims/

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  • pooka_yc
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 11:48pm

    “Moreover, it carries an image of a fish with a stick figure in its mouth, which scholars believe may be designed to represent Jonah and the Whale, one of the first explicitly Christian prophets, and a symbol of Christ’s resurrection.”

    What is that all about! Jonah lived around the time of Jeroboam II (793-753 B.C.) Why does this story refer to him as a Christian prophet when he lived long before the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ? This whole story smells fishy (no pun intended).

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  • Best7
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 11:31pm

    It was a tomb… Don’t bother looking… It’s empty now….

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  • HYPNOTOAD
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 11:13pm

    Ignorance on parade. Jesus or Yeshua was a common name in Judea in the first century. And Blaze…You might want to edit your spell checker if you think Yeshua is not spelled correctly. Just saying.

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  • christos
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:45pm

    …….+JESUS+GOD+ was never put in a coffin,,because he folded +HIS+ prayer shawl perfectly to let +HIS+ followers +HE+ had plenty of time and then +HE+ was Resurrected,,,+JESUS+GOD+ is very much alive.

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    • christos
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:55pm

      Edit :…….JESUS+GOD+ was never put in a coffin +HE+ also let +HIS+ followers know +HE+ had plenty of time before +HE+ was resurrected because +HE+ folded +HIS+ prayer shawl perfectly before +HIS+ resurrection.

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    • Pontiac
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 10:23pm

      ……++++PLUSPLUS++++PLUS++++.

      +plus+

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    • meeester
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 11:31pm

      ++L++O++L++
      Any one have a screwdriver thay can spare?

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 12:06am

      ++roflmao++

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    • christos
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 1:39am

      @PONTIAC@MEEESTER@TROLLTRAINER—With the exception of you 3 you would constitute as – MINUS-MINUS-MINUS-,,,Just returning the favor+TA

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  • StCharles777
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:30pm

    joseph smith was a pedafile.
    remember ‘add to this book or take from this book and suffer the plagues of this book’ revelation
    why would GOD change HIS mind? JESUS is the same yesterday, today and forever”
    CHRIST at the cross states ‘it is finished’…………not, i have a better idea. lol
    Mormonism isn’t CHRISTianity. they teach JESUS and satin are brothers, although Bible states satin was an angel, of which angels are to protect humans and serve GOD.
    read the bible from genesis to revelation and soon you will be ashamed of the book of mormon. complete hypocracy
    your salvation depends on it

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    • dontbotherme
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:53pm

      @STCHARLES – Jesus’ “Great Commission” must be done with the Love of Christ in your heart. God bless you.

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    • Think_First
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 10:57pm

      I have a few Mormon friends, and they quote the Bible pretty good. Especially Revelations. They are pretty obsessed about the meanings and such. Are you sure you know anything about the Mormon religion?

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    • ambwoster
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 11:04pm

      You Charles doth protest to much me thinks… I am thinking you may have a few skeletons in your closet.

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    • Grudunza
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 11:45pm

      Not sure what that has to do with the story, but anyway… Revelation 22:18-19 is clearly referring to the *PROPHECY of THIS book*, meaning the Book of Revelation. There was no “The Bible” at the time that was recorded, and other books from the NT were likely written after that point. There’s also a very similar wording in Deuteronomy, so should we reject all of the NT because of that? Before you refer to Joseph Smith as a pedophile and condemn the Book of Mormon based on a faulty understanding of scripture that would also condemn the New Testament, you might want to learn more about what you are saying. Your salvation depends on it.

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    • cariboodragon
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 1:04am

      if satan is just a fallen angel then why for the love of you know who couldnt he just make satan disappear or better yet make it so he never existed he has the power to create anything and everything yet he cant supposedly defeat evil? If GOD was as powerful and real like you guys think then Satan would not have tempted Eve because Satan would not have been there. No sin no evangelicals spouting there stupid guilt trip man made b.s. If God created the universe and everything in it that means there is no reason for the Jesus story, logic is a bummer sometimes. Having said all of that i still do not presume that there is not something else out there i am just a little skeptical about it all and i am not arrogant enough to say my belief is the right one and everyone else is wrong. If i am wrong then when i die i will hear from the big guy himself and be able to ask him or her some questions, even then i might not want to buy what he is selling,

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    • myway2112
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 3:06am

      What are you so scared of? Why are you even talking about Joseph Smith for? The verse you quote is in the Bible, that is correct, it is in Revelation, however scholars believe that the Book of John was written AFTER the book of Revelation thereby John would have violated his own Revelation. See? So something is not right. I am a membr of the LDS Church. If you do not agree w/ my Church fine, but please refrain from commenting and spreading falsehoods about the Church. It sure is easy casting lies about someone when they aren‘t around to defend themselves isn’t it? Now get it right.

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    • Oath2Honor
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 3:10am

      John 21:24-25 (KJV) “This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true. And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.”

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    • P8riot
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 10:58am

      I was going to respond, but I think the original comment has been pretty thoroughly debunked… several times.

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    • David USA
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 2:55pm

      Do you believe that all things are created by God? If so don’t you think that all spirits are created of God? if so doesn’t that make us his sons and daughters? and as Christ is the First born of the Father does that not make him our spiritual brother? Even if we rebel?

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    • 3bagmom
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 8:35pm

      Just to rain a little on your sad parade…Revelations wasn’t the last book written in the Bible..so by your own words…everything that came after Revelations which you don’t seem to have a problem with, should not be okay. I think you need to spend a little time doing some homework…Revelations is the last book physically, but time wise, not…go look it up. And regardless what my religion is, my salvation doesn’t depend on something this ridiculous.

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  • dontbotherme
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:24pm

    This is not real. I thought this sounded familiar (started in the 1980′s) & it has been disproved already. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, rose from the dead & is seated at the right hand of the Father in His Heavenly Kingdom. People want to believe a bunch of hooey so much because it is easier to believe in lies than live in truth.

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  • burrner0
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:16pm

    The problem is you know nothing of the bible psalms 83:18 That people may know that you, whose name is Jehovah. You alone are the most high over all the earth. you will have to look to the king james to see the name Jehovah since new editions take out the name of Jehovah.

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    • sifu
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 12:08am

      Jehovah is historically a fairly recent construct as others have said taking the consonants of YHWH and adding the vowels from Adonai. The newer biblical translations use LORD all in caps instead of YHWH and Lord in lower case for Adonai in the Old Testament. The Mormon Blaze included this story because of the phrase adding in passing: “one implication was that Christ may have been married and raised children (presumably with Mary Magdalene).” And Mormons believe men have to be married to gain godhood! If He wasn’t, that throws a monkey wrench into His becoming a god. There is absolutely no proof Jesus survived His crucifixion or that He married anyone before or after it.

      Nicea‘s council didn’t rewrite any of the biblical text. That’s blatantly false! We have the entire Old Testament from the Dead Sea Scrolls (3rd to 1st century BC), and 25,000 ancient manuscripts and fragments of the New Testament text as well as over 32,000 citations of its books written prior to the Nicaean Council, in Greek, Latin and Syriac. The list of extant New Testament books goes back to the Muratorian Canon from 170 AD. Biblical scholar Dr. Norman Geisler writes (Introduction to the Bible; p.420 ) that all 27 books of the NT were written, copied, and began to be disseminated among the churches before the end of the 1st century. that’s about 2 centuries before Nicea.

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  • TRVTH
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:59pm

    Much of the bible was rewritten by the council of Nicaea,

    Would the story of Christ be any less inspiring if he were a mortal man, who taught peace and love in the face of roman tyranny, instead of some mythical being?

    Pslams 82.6 says Ye are Gods, does that mean that we are the true gods of this planet, I believe it does, it jibes with other religions ideas of man being the all powerful being.

    I know you self styled christians will call me vile names, in the name of your fine christian tolerant belief system, proves my point, when you take a myth to seriously you become entrenched into an intolerant position.

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    • TROONORTH
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:12pm

      The bible was re-written numerous times over the centuries and represents the viewpoints of numerous authors. None the less it is full of lovely stories with relevance to today and the ages.

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    • Greenwood
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:21pm

      @TRVTH………….read Psalms 82: 1 – 8 in context it’s speaking about judges in justice.
      gods = it’s speaking about people in power in the high places.

      Psalms 82: 6 “I myself have said, YOU are gods, And all of YOU are sons of the Most High.

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:28pm

      Psalms 82:6 I said, ‘You are “gods”; you are all sons of the Most High.’ You notice that gods is not capitalized. We were all made in the image of God..as were Adam and Eve..but they believed Satan’s lie that they were inferior and so became inferior..They were the children of the fall..and by inheritance so are we..only by the saving grace of Yashua can we be redeemed. YHWH chose His elect from the foundations of the world..one can only go to Him if they have been called. Yashua is the only judge..It is true that we can tell a tree by its fruits..but even Yashua said..I did not come to judge the world but to save it..but even so.. My word judges you. For this is love..to obey my commands..

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    • Quasimofo
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:28pm

      It doesn’t say that. It says “I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.”

      Small g.

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  • oneopinion
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:58pm

    Thank God they found the box where Jesus is. Of course there is going to be the little problem of the Biblical account of his burial. Let’s just write a new chapter for the Bible, cross out all the references to the original burial and resurrection, then it will be correct.
    This is typical for phony believers – God lives in a box and all we have to do is open it and let Him out.

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    • sodacrackers2
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:25pm

      No, dear, you must open your heart, empty it of all sin with the grace of God, and let Him in!

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  • joejoegolfn
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:49pm

    I know that god lives and jesus came and died for us. He left the holy ghost to comfort us until we return to god. His still small voice directs my life and keeps me safe. I pray for those who do not know of these things.

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    • db321
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 11:01pm

      Well said – Jesus is the same yesterday today and forever.

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    • Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 12:05am

      Why would God have to send Jesus to die for people’s sins? Who told God he could only have one son? Why do you believe in magic?

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 12:03pm

      DAS KAPITAL QUOTIN, CHRISTIAN FEARIN’, LEFTY……your asinine questions only add to the perception that you’re a cretin. If you cannot understand the christian foundation of redemption of sin through Christ’s passion, death and resurrection then you have my sympathy but please..spare us your peurile interjections.

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  • BannedByHuffpo
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:34pm

    Interesting, but the Shroud of Turin is the artifact that’s got me wondering.

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:01pm

      me too! I don’t disbelieve it, but the thing that makes me wonder is would Christ leave us an icon to worship?

      However, it remains an unexplained and powerful mystery.

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:37pm

      I don’t believe Jesus was buried in a coffin.
      a man named Joseph, from Arimathea, asked special permission from the Roman Governor, Pontius Pilate to take possession of the body.6 . The Bible tells us that Joseph took the body down, cleaned it, wrapped it in a linen cloth, laid it in a newly carved tomb and rolled a rock in front of it.8 Since Jesus had made the claim that “three days after his death, he would rise and live again”9, the Jewish priest asked Pilate to appoint a guard. According to the book of Matthew, Pilate declined, but gave the priest permission to use their guards instead

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:50pm

      about the Shroud of Turan..the blood was AB negative wasn’t it ..the rarest in the world and supposedly and supposedly the newest..but the photo that has come out of the shroud is beautiful..If that was the face of Yeshua….Wow..

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    • dmac225
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 11:54pm

      Try this yourself…. Cover your face, ears and head in body paint. While it is still wet, wrap a cloth around your face and head. Allow enough time for some of the body paint to transfer to the cloth. Unwrap the cloth and lay it flat. The image will be distorted and not look like a normal human face. Much less your face. Try transferring any 3-dimensional object onto a 2-dimensional plane and the results will be similar.

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 12:05am

      dmac225
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 11:54pm

      Try this yourself…. Cover your face, ears and head in body paint. While it is still wet, wrap a cloth around your face and head. Allow enough time for some of the body paint to transfer to the cloth. Unwrap the cloth and lay it flat. The image will be distorted and not look like a normal human face. Much less your face. Try transferring any 3-dimensional object onto a 2-dimensional plane and the results will be similar.
      ————————————————————————-
      Really? Well….goooooooooolly! Who’dve thunk?

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    • 4truth2all
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 3:00pm

      Yo Ashes,

      Blessings …scripture say’s that Jesus was nothing special to look at.. forgive me but can not recall the verses or exact words, but this would fit with the humility of His birth and entire life. His ministry was about his words and deeds, not His possibility of a modeling career ( joking). I know what you are saying, the figure looks chiseled out of granite, and we probably ALL wonder what He looks like.
      Another reason why this story is foolish … NOBODY expected Jesus to “rise up”. People don’t rise up after being torn to pieces, hung and speared. These people were defeated at His death, as I would have been. It was not until they saw him alive that that defeat became victory….yeah baby!!!

      People want to see Jesus, YOU WILL … his beauty is not in His flesh, it is in His light, too glorious to look at in our flesh … and that gets another yeah baby!!!

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  • marjorie faye
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:31pm

    This kind of stupid garbage comes up ever so often and gives someone 5 minutes of fame. Then they crawl back in their hole where they belong.

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  • Mr.Fitnah
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:30pm

    I hope it isnt much longer until this story is concluded with finality .

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    • sodacrackers2
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:29pm

      You may get your wish sooner than you think, then you will believe, but it will be too late.

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  • Netsurfer2
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:25pm

    Oh my! This only proves that the Da Vinci code is true! You know the one where Jesus runs off with Mary and starts a new life in France! Oh yeah! That’s probably where Joseph Smith got his version from??? Isn’t it nice when they twist things into making everyone believe what is not true nor could have ever happened??? Just like our educational system now days! Environmentalism at it’s best! Just tell mommy AL Gore knows best! Maybe she will bow to the New World Order??? You only see all these cults coming out of the woodwork while our nation is in dire straits with serious economic troubles while having threats all around us! Our economy is about to collapse from the high prices of fuel, food and other commodities and yet our President still does nothing to help with the situation nor will he ever, because he is not on our side to begin with!

    Why isn’t our system honest??? What happened to decent hard working people with common sense??? I just don’t understand anything about what our system has become! We don’t need welfare or any other kind of gratuity! We don’t need anymore laws in which make us less productive in our societies! Why are they all Lawyers running for president??? The tax system is corrupt!

    This really make’s me sick!

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    • P8riot
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:37pm

      You know what makes me sick? You’re unprovoked attack on what I hold sacred. As a “Mormon” who believes with all my heart that Joseph Smith was a true Prophet of God, your snide comments about him are not appreciated. You sound like an intelligent person, so don’t go wasting it on bigotry.

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    • P8riot
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:38pm

      oops! Your – not you’re :)

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    • toddgibbs
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 10:15pm

      I must have missed something… now, just how did the Mormons end up getting blamed for this news story?

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    • dmac225
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 11:42pm

      @p8riot…. So you actually believe that “God” himself spoke to a convicted con-man and gave him golden plates with instructions written on them? Since Smith could not read the instructions “God” also sent an angel to translate for him? Granted I find that story less irrational than the one about Jesus’ being born to a virgin, walking on water and rising from the dead but you believe all of that too. So I do find mormons more irrational than run of the mill christians. Here’s a question for you. If Jesus rose up from being dead…. why would there be need of a coffin or “bone box”?

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    • P8riot
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 10:36am

      @DMAC225 – Honestly, you sound as if you are sincere in your beliefs and thus, I‘ll take the time to correct a few discrepancies in what you’ve been told about Joseph Smith.

      First, yes, God the Father and Jesus Christ did speak to Joseph Smith. However, he was not a “convicted felon” as you’ve been told. In fact, he was never convicted of anything he was falsely accused of. But being falsely accused is nothing new to many mighty men in history.

      Second, the golden plates were not “instructions” but rather the writings of ancient prophets who lived in the Americas. You see, we believe that God can speak to all of his faithful, regardless of where they live. What was written in the golden plates is what is now called the Book of Mormon. Its another testament of Jesus Christ – a companion to the Bible (the highlight of the Book of Mormon is when Jesus Christ visits his people on the American continent).

      Third, God did not send an angel to translate the golden plates, he provided Joseph Smith with what is called a Urim and Thummim. Heb. term that means Lights and Perfections. An instrument prepared of God to assist man in obtaining revelation from the Lord and in translating languages. See Ex. 28:30; Lev. 8:8; Num. 27:21; Deut. 33:8; 1 Sam. 28:6; Ezra 2:63; Neh. 7:65.

      Finally, I agree that all of this defies logic, but that is why “faith” is so important in ANY religion – even science (many scientific theories must be trusted in prior to being proven).

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    • P8riot
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 10:52am

      @DMAC225 – Oh yeah, sorry for missing your question… honestly I doubt that this coffin belonged to Christ. Mostly because after he was crucified, I imagine the sepulchre in which Christ was laid after being wrapped in clean linen cloth was more of a room than a coffin… but I guess a coffin could have been in the room – but it doesn’t really matter. What matters is that Christ DID rise up again… the greatest truth in all the world. I love how its described by an angel in Luke 24:5-6 where he says:

      “Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen!”

      Anyhow, to answer your question more specifically, a coffin, tomb or sepulchre would be needed because his body was not to be risen until the third day.

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  • pissed MARINE
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:17pm

    Hold on, why is it allways Jesus that people are trying to disprove and not the false prophet muhammad?????

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    • Xpressed
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 11:59pm

      Christians are always under attack. How many times are we blamed as being intolerant and spoken out against. I do it gladly but do have a hard time turning the other cheek. There is no coffin for Jesus. Doesn’t make sense. Also some people have nothing better to do than “troll” sites they dislike to tell you to quit pushing your views on them and to tell you to stop infringing on free speech. Those who doubt spread doubt most.

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    • cariboodragon
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 1:14am

      All organized religion is man made

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    • EschatonNow
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 1:43pm

      All organized science is man made….all organized hate is man made….all organized stupid comments on the Blaze is man made.

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  • thankfulness
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:14pm

    Reminds me of Paul Maier‘s book’ A Skeleton in God‘s Closet ’

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  • mcmeador
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:08pm

    Well that story ended kind of abruptly…

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  • trolltrainer
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:07pm

    Oh, this is just more of Simcha Jacobovici’s crap. The naked archeologist…He has a way of spinning some of the greatest fairy tales vaguely based on a minor fact…Quite amusing actually, but I wouldn’t put any stock in him…

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  • SoundStride
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 7:48pm

    Did they find Bigfoot yet? Oh yea shes in The White House.

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  • Elena2010
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 6:07pm

    FYI — “Divine Jehovah, raise up, raise up.” is faked. Jehovah is a made up term using the German scholarship of the 19th century and Jewish reverence for the Holy Name of God as revealed to Moses (YHVH) The Name is too holy to be pronounced, so Jews say “Adonai” in its place (or ha-shame – the Name).

    YHVH (yud heh vav heh) would be at most the Hebrew inscription. Give it vowels for Adonia when the Massoretic scribes pointed the Hebrew text so as not to loose the pronunciation in the Middle Ages. Now you have Yehovah, or in German Jehovah since the German “J” is the same sound as our “Y” in English, and the German “W” is equivalent in sound to our “V.”

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 6:28pm

      Simcha Jacobivici is a laughable “archeologist”. He bends and twists credibility beyond recognition taking liberties with the facts that are inexcusable. This ossuary has been proven by credible scholars as not having anything to do with the events of Christ’s passion and death on the cross.

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    • Greenwood
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:57pm

      Elena is made up

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    • Greenwood
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:07pm

      Psalms 83:18

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  • hi
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 6:03pm

    The case for Christ by lee strobel “proves” the Bible is true.

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    • ModerationIsBest
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 6:36pm

      Oh so the Bible needs some outside source to prove its truthfulness?

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    • Calm Voice of Reason
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 7:32pm

      Strobel bases his entire argument on the “Liar, Lunatic, or Lord“ premise which is a logical fallacy known as ”false dilemma”. There are many possibilities that might also be the case which are not represented sincerely in his book. The only thing that supports the idea of the Christian bible as a divinely inspired text that is true and complete is Faith. Logic and science simply do not support it.

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    • holycow
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:32pm

      Have you read “A Case for a Creator,” by Lee Strobel? Brilliant!

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    • 4truth2all
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 3:06pm

      Yo Calm:

      Are you saying that logic and science go against scripture?
      And , have you read the book?

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  • Elena2010
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 6:02pm

    An ossuary would be used after the body had decayed into just skeletal remains. Until then, there was no need for an ossuary. This is obviously a fake for the black-market antiquities market.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 6:24pm

      Christ‘s body didn’t decay for any bones to be placed in any ossuary.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 6:32pm

      Bingo…not only wasn’t Christ dead long enough for his body to decay, his bones cleaned and placed in an ossuary, but there is an active black market in Israel that forges and fabricates antiquities. Let’s also remember this same “jesus tomb” contained what was another “jesus ossuary” that Jacobivici swears contained Christ’s remains. This was the “Jesus, brother of James, son of Joseph” ossuary in the same location. Common hebrew names and lineages of the time. So Jacobivici now wants us to dump that one, and believe this one instead.

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    • Peter Yohansen
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 7:39pm

      As long as it bring in more money, who cares if its true or not?

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    • Peter Yohansen
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 7:42pm

      *brings

      Anyway I think this is one of those fake hyped artifacts that are meant to influence us a certain way. Hmmm, I remember in Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade when the “Holy Grail” was a simple wooden cup amidst golden goblets.

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  • LouC57
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 5:52pm

    Interesting, but it‘s unlikely we’ll know exactly who it was intended for. For those interested Biblical Archaeological Review is a fascinating monthly read.

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