Name:free_thinker •
Title: Allegory of the Cave •
Date posted: 03/15/07 20:21
Q: To truely understand what is going on with this tomb, one must read the "Allegory of the Cave" by the Greek Philosopher Plato. In it it describes how things in society are what society wants us to think they are. That the reality and truth may be something entirely differrent and society will keep us in chains to maintain the illusion. But breaking free of those chains allows us to escape and find the truth. The truth in this case could be that this is Jesus's tomb and that the Christian society will do everything it can to tighten the chains to to maintain the illusion that it isn't. If the truth is that it is the tomb the Christians should embrace this as a great find and entrust in it's followers love and faith in God and Jesus. For this find will not end Christianity but strengthen it and give it more resolve.
Name:TheNakedBoneHunter •
Date: 03/15/07 21:09
A: VERY IMPORTANT - SEE BELOW - email of JOE ZIAS, March 1, 2007 - CAN SOMEONE VERIFY THIS AS BEING THE GENUINE EMAIL FROM JOE ZIAS, if it is, then this is critical news ( Note: I am not the author of the following excerpt , The Naked Bone Hunter )
Time magazine again reports: "Asbury Theological Seminary professor Ben Witherington, a early Christianity expert who was deeply involved with the James Ossuary, says there are physical reasons to believe it couldn't have originated in the Talpiot plot." Following the lead of Time, I did my own detective work and checked out Ben Witherington's blogspot (see, www.benwitherington.blogspot.com).
Witherington claims: "Joe Zias is a fine archaeologist of long standing and good reputation. He is the person who catalogued the ten ossuaries from the Talpiot tomb, and personally catalogued the tenth ossuary. He worked with Amos Kloner as part of the team who made the original discovery. In two emails this morning to someone I have been talking to he made crystal clear that the tenth ossuary was blank, certainly was not the James ossuary at all despite the assertions of those involved in making the (Vision TV) special. These emails have been sent along to me, and I will let them speak for themselves.
Joe Zias [email protected]: Subject: Re: Jesus Tomb Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2007 6:02 AM
"Amos Kloner is right as I received and catalogued the objects, the 10th was plain and I put it out in the courtyard with all the rest of the plain ossuaries as was the standard procedure when one has little storage space available. Nothing was stolen nor missing and they were fully aware of this fact. It just didn't fit in with their agenda." Shalom, Joe.
The filmmakers were fully aware that the tenth ossuary in the so-called "Jesus family tomb" was blank, but it didn't fit in with their agenda. So they deliberately misled viewers with a spurious assertion that this was the James ossuary
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CAN SOMEONE CONFIRM THIS WITH JOE ZIAS ?
Name:gnotcivulf •
Date: 03/16/07 2:17
A: Oh, TheNakedBoneHunter, started a thread for you. Just doing my part.
