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Originally posted by Z-man
That said, allow me to get back to the subject at hand, namely the bones of Christ. Logic would dictate that one of two groups of people would have buried the bones of Christ - His followers, or His enemies. He was very controversial in His time - a radical Man with a message. He polarized the people around him -- there was no one 'neutral' who was neither for nor against Jesus. Thus, only friend or foe would have buried Him.
Now let's say that Christ was just a man. If I were one of His followers that proclaimed that He was risen from the dead, why would I make sure to bury Him in such a way that He could be identified later on in life and the whole resurrection event could be determined to be a big lie? No sir, if I wanted to propegate such a lie, I would make sure that the remains of Jesus would be unidentifiable. I would probably scatter his remains - maybe have His body cremated or his bones buried in a mass tomb to make His remains indistinguishable amongst many others.
Now on the other side, if I were an emeny of Christ, not only would I bury His body, I would also ensure that EVERYONE in that age and all ages to come would know for certain where the remains of this Jesus was. According to the recent news articles, it seems this tomb was just discovered some 30 years ago. So if enemies of Jesus buried Him, they really didn't do that good a job of making sure it was a known fact that Jesus did not rise from the dead.
So what if someone 'neutral' buried Christ? The Romans were meticulous record keepers -- wouldn't they have kept a close eye on this crucifiction, and made sure everyone knew where the final resting place of Christ was, regardless of who buried him?
So initially, to me, it seems this whole bones of Jesus doesn't hold a whole lot of H2O. I do need to research this article a bit more...
Sorry for the lengthy post,
-Zoltan.
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I see several possable ways for the man to reapear
but donot believe in dead coming back to life
1 fake or fix, the rich burial cave[#1] owner Nick bribed pilot
this we know from the bible, they said he asked for the body [you ask a roman offical with a tip [bribe] at that time] pilot was surprized at the quick death
but allowed the body to be taken down and given to Nick
now roman law required a body to rot in place on the cross, that was part of the punishment, and the rotting body surved as a example to others too
so a bribe was need to take down the body
but was it a body or a man in a coma, past out, or druged and was that part of the bribe?
note, aloe was used on JC now that is not a jewish burial
substance but a healing oinment
so he came back ''from the burial cave'' but no god or rebirth just tricks
and later died and was buried for real and for good
with the family
2 the whole son of god thing was added later by saul/paul
who never meet JC but wrote much of the new "T"
and was at odds with james and the other jewish followers of JC over his revised ideas for ''their'' religion
he may have added extra bits like rebirth ,virgin birth, and son of god bit, all taken from other religions
so JC's body may have only gained religious status long after he died