Name:Brad Watson, Miami •
Title: Jesus died long after Crucifixion then buried in Family Tomb •
Date posted: 08/24/14 19:20
Q: Those who discovered the Jesus Family Tomb in 1980 and have been working to make it known since, have been promoting the hypothesis that Y'shua really died on the Cross and was first buried in Joseph of Arimathea's tomb before having his body transferred to an ossuary and placed in the Jesus Family Tomb. This belief totally negates the Easter Sunday story of Resurrection. Is there a third belief that combines the other two? Most definitely.
Y'shua ben Yosef was crucified on Friday April 7, 30 AD / 7.4.783 AUC / 14 Nisan 3090 HC. He spent a record low of three hours on the Cross before being removed before sun-set. He didn't die, he had a near-death experience. The Jewish Messiah lived through the Crucifixion and appeared next about 37 hours later at sun-rise on Sun-day.
Jesus then 'hung out' for 40 days in Jerusalem and Galilee while keeping a really low-profile so as not to be seen by Roman or Jewish authorities. He then departed from the Roman Empire and there are several theories as to where he went. The most popular explanation is that he went to Glastonbury with Joseph of Arimathea. He died sometime in the next 40 years and his bones were put in an ossuary which was eventually placed in the Jesus Family Tomb before the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 AD.
Name:Brad Watson, Miami •
Date: 02/20/15 13:30
A: Correction: 14 Nisan 3790 HC.
In Acts 1:9-11, Luke wrote that "When Jesus had said this, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him from their sight... 'This Jesus who has been taken up from you into the heavens will return the same way as you have seen him going into the heavens'." Of course, this is in direct conflict with the discovery of the Jesus Family Tomb. Therefore, if one accepts the archaeological evidence, then they must dismiss this story in Acts as a myth either created by Luke and/or Paul.
