I think getting in touch w/anyone who wants to join a blog like would be fine, especially the people Peter suggested. I also saw on several commercials that the Discovery Channel is running a documentary by James Cameron on "The Tomb of Jesus", which supposedly is a discovery of an ancient tomb in southern Jerusalem. It is already causing controversy, with little backing by archaeologists as well as the obvious Christian leaders around the world. It airs in the beginning of March, so if anyone wants to watch, here's a link to a CNN article that discusses it and gives its air time:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/02/26/jesus.sburial.ap/index.html
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It looks like it airs Sunday at 9pm on the Discovery Channel.
I've seen a few news releases about this. What do people think? My personal opinion on things like this, which try to disprove "important tenets" of Christianity through archaeological evidence, is that it really doesn't matter. Christianity is a religion of faith. We can't prove that Jesus lived or didn't live. We can't prove that he died and was resurrected. We can't prove that he wasn't married or had children, etc. For me, none of these things really matter to my faith; they're just technicalities. What's important is that we follow Jesus' example and live as he instructed. How do others feel?
As a student in the anthropology field, trying to find exactly what one sets out to find in field work is extremely difficult, especially something like a particular person. Even archaeologists in this show are rejected the claims of James Cameron and so-called "researchers". I would agree that faith goes beyond archaeology or science, but we should not always criticize these fields, as they have been useful. A problem occurs, when for example, people use science as the sole means to either crtiqur or support religion. There is nothing definitive enough to do so. And like Brian said, I strongly agree that faith allows us to believe with or without scientific evidence. To believe w/out knowing is faith, and for me I would rather not know.
Hmm... Why wasn't the so-called "Tomb of Jesus" discovered before now? You mean to tell me it went almost 2,000 years without being discovered?
Not to mention, if you take the Bible literally, His body disappeared sometime between Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
Me? I think someone's making something up. It does sound like interesting TV though.
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