{"id":10349,"date":"2012-03-04T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/?p=10349"},"modified":"2012-07-16T22:01:47","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T02:01:47","slug":"the-bones-of-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/the-bones-of-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bones of Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"

An alert reader, Kristen, sent in the following email:<\/p>\n

I just saw some interesting news about some archaeologists who claim to have discovered Jesus’ ossuary and another one of a relative. I actually saw these two ossuaries at the Discovery Times Square Exhibit and they were really amazing. \u00a0After seeing the news it aroused intense dialogue between me and my roommate (she is not Christian) about what this means for Christianity. \u00a0The exhibit is really awesome and you should check it out if you have the chance. \u00a0Anyway, I’m writing to see if you could blog a response to this “finding.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s a link to the article about it: Questions Raised About Possible Clues to Jesus and His Disciples<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think it’d be awesome if you address this topic! I’d love to hear your opinion on this and I’m sure your \u00a0viewers are probably also interested in learning how they can strengthen their faith even when faced with scientific challenges to our religion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thanks, Kristen! Not surprisingly, I do have something to say about this!<\/p>\n

…And some of it will be controversial…
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This is an Old Story<\/h2>\n

First, this is an old story that gets resurrected every year around Easter. The media loves to bring up this story around this time every year, because it loves to challenge the Christian idea that Jesus rose from the dead.<\/p>\n

The story is basically that in 1980,\u00a0archaeologists\u00a0in Israel discovered a set of Ossuaries, which are stone boxes containing the bones of various families. Usually what happened is that each family had a cave or tomb in which they would lay their dead family members to decompose. Each family tomb only had so much room, and so when a body had decomposed, the bones would be put into a stone box called an Ossuary, and the names of the people would often get inscribed on to the box so that descendants would know whose bones were inside the box.<\/p>\n

\"JesusWell, of these Ossuaries discovered in 1980, six of them contain some interesting names :<\/p>\n