Christianity is doomed!
After purposefully living the last eight years of my life for my God who sent His Son to die for my transgressions so that I may have an everlasting life full of true unconditional love, grace, and forgiveness (that's a really long prepositional phrase), James Cameron comes along and blows the top of my faith.
Cameron, the director of "Titanic," along with his companion Simcha Jacobovici, have put together a new documentary that proves once and for all that Jesus did not, in fact, resurrect from the dead (What!?) and also had a child with Mary Magdelene (yes, like in that movie.) You see, 27 years ago archeologists discovered a 2,000 year old cave with 10 stone caskets inside in Talpiyot, a town just outside of Jerusalem. A location that is far separate from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher where Jesus' tomb was originally thought to have been.
After just 20 years (five years ago), experts were finally able read the names on the ten tombs. Jesua, son of Joseph, Mary, Mary, Mathew, Jofa and Judah, son of Jesua (that's only six (the other four probably make this argument less convincing.)) The Cameron team have coupled deductive reasoning with biblical studies, attempted DNA samples on the bodies in the tomb to show that Jesus' extended family AND son were all buried next to him.
Wait, isn't physically impossible for an unpreserved body to withstand decomposing into absolutely nothing after 2,000 years? Perhaps (yes.) But DNA samples could still in theory exist on residue left behind (I'll have to look that up on Wikipedia.) But didn't it also say in the gospels (and later backed up in Jewish non-Christian historical accounts) that when Jesus' tomb was found empty, the only thing left behind were the traditional cloth bandages he was ceremoniously wrapped in? And couldn't these possible DNA samples from the new "real" tomb have existed only because because those bandages had absorbed blood and other bodily fluids from Jesus? (He was after all severely beaten, crucified, and then also stabbed in the side.)
SO. . . wouldn't that mean that Cameron can really only prove that both Mary (his mother), Mary (the other one), Mathew, Jofa and Judah (the son of a man who was also named Jesua) were all buried next to Jesus' already empty tomb? (Sure, that's a good point.)
Well then. I don't think I'll be losing any sleep at night over this.
Mere Christianity
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