Comments on: Have They Found Jesus’ Family Tomb: The Fluff Behind the Stuff http://bromattsblog.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/have-they-found-jesus-family-tomb-the-fluff-behind-the-stuff/ Bringing the Treasure of God's Word to Bear on the Culture and Church Fri, 25 Dec 2009 01:26:56 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: James Snapp, Jr. http://bromattsblog.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/have-they-found-jesus-family-tomb-the-fluff-behind-the-stuff/#comment-3355 James Snapp, Jr. Sun, 11 Mar 2007 02:12:02 +0000 http://bromattsblog.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/have-they-found-jesus-family-tomb-the-fluff-behind-the-stuff/#comment-3355 If the number of news-stories and blog-entries per week is any indication, it looks like the momentum of the "Lost Tomb of Jesus" story is fading very quickly. Nevertheless, if you're interested, I welcome you to read my "nit-picker's guide" to the movie, at www.curtisvillechristian.org/LostTomb.html , in which I point out 25 mistakes, half-truths, and other interesting content of the movie and the Ted Koppel discussion which followed it. If the number of news-stories and blog-entries per week is any indication, it looks like the momentum of the “Lost Tomb of Jesus” story is fading very quickly. Nevertheless, if you’re interested, I welcome you to read my “nit-picker’s guide” to the movie, at http://www.curtisvillechristian.org/LostTomb.html , in which I point out 25 mistakes, half-truths, and other interesting content of the movie and the Ted Koppel discussion which followed it.

]]> By: Carla http://bromattsblog.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/have-they-found-jesus-family-tomb-the-fluff-behind-the-stuff/#comment-3341 Carla Thu, 08 Mar 2007 04:07:29 +0000 http://bromattsblog.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/have-they-found-jesus-family-tomb-the-fluff-behind-the-stuff/#comment-3341 Surely we are living in the last days. The spirit of the antichrist abounds everywhere. The media is a mere puppet of Christ's arch-enemy. God be praised, where sin abounds, grace does much more abound. It is no time for Christians to let up with their prayers and outreach. Time is short. So glad I found your site, picked it up from Voice of Vision Surely we are living in the last days. The spirit of the antichrist abounds everywhere. The media is a mere puppet of Christ’s arch-enemy. God be praised, where sin abounds, grace does much more abound.

It is no time for Christians to let up with their prayers and outreach. Time is short.

So glad I found your site, picked it up from Voice of Vision

]]> By: Joe http://bromattsblog.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/have-they-found-jesus-family-tomb-the-fluff-behind-the-stuff/#comment-3340 Joe Thu, 08 Mar 2007 03:17:14 +0000 http://bromattsblog.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/have-they-found-jesus-family-tomb-the-fluff-behind-the-stuff/#comment-3340 You left out a name for "Who's Behind This?" Ben Witherington. He's the one who got the ball rolling on fraudulent ossuary claims with his so-called "James Ossuary." Remember the gift he gave to Christians on Easter Day 2003? His own Discovery Channel special produced with Jacobvici hyping his own faked NT relic. The latest dispatch (3/7/07) from Witherington, from his meditation on "Bitterness": "It would be easy for me to get bitter about the nonsense propagated in the Jesus tomb theory. To become bitter that the other side of the story has not adequately been told. That there is an unfairness in all of this, especially since I spent years of my life dealing with the James ossuary and the remarkable implications of that, which is still a genuine relic from the family of Jesus." From his own words, it's even more obvious now that the ONLY dog that BW had in this Jesus Tomb fight was the one that he hoped would free his James ossuary from its association with the ossuaries from the "Family Tomb." He succeeded in part. Most people agree that his J-o was not one of the ten, but he only dragged his credibility down further since he was forced to rely on the word of Oded Golan to establish a sort-of provenance for his ossuary and almost every mention of the J-o in the press was surrounded by variations on the words “fraud,” "forged" or "fake." RE: "...the other side of the story has not been adequately told" I have to agree with him here. Even though there were archaeologists, scientists and even Biblical scholars aplenty to refute the claims of the JFT-crowd, Witherington just had to jump in with the ridiculous baggage of his own ossuary claims. The case against the JFT would have been even more adequate without his input. He was an unneeded distraction. Re: "I spent years of my life dealing with the James ossuary and the remarkable implications of that, which is still a genuine relic from the family of Jesus." "Still?!" You left out a name for “Who’s Behind This?” Ben Witherington. He’s the one who got the ball rolling on fraudulent ossuary claims with his so-called “James Ossuary.” Remember the gift he gave to Christians on Easter Day 2003? His own Discovery Channel special produced with Jacobvici hyping his own faked NT relic.

The latest dispatch (3/7/07) from Witherington, from his meditation on “Bitterness”:

“It would be easy for me to get bitter about the nonsense propagated in the Jesus tomb theory. To become bitter that the other side of the story has not adequately been told. That there is an unfairness in all of this, especially since I spent years of my life dealing with the James ossuary and the remarkable implications of that, which is still a genuine relic from the family of Jesus.”

From his own words, it’s even more obvious now that the ONLY dog that BW had in this Jesus Tomb fight was the one that he hoped would free his James ossuary from its association with the ossuaries from the “Family Tomb.”

He succeeded in part. Most people agree that his J-o was not one of the ten, but he only dragged his credibility down further since he was forced to rely on the word of Oded Golan to establish a sort-of provenance for his ossuary and almost every mention of the J-o in the press was surrounded by variations on the words “fraud,” “forged” or “fake.”

RE: “…the other side of the story has not been adequately told”

I have to agree with him here. Even though there were archaeologists, scientists and even Biblical scholars aplenty to refute the claims of the JFT-crowd, Witherington just had to jump in with the ridiculous baggage of his own ossuary claims. The case against the JFT would have been even more adequate without his input. He was an unneeded distraction.

Re: “I spent years of my life dealing with the James ossuary and the remarkable implications of that, which is still a genuine relic from the family of Jesus.”

“Still?!”

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