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Some exciting stuff about the most famous person in history. I am taking notes (editing as I watch).

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/tomb/tomb.html

The lost Tomb of Jesus - (a Discovery channel special)

The executive producer of The Lost Tomb of Jesus is Academy award winning filmmaker, James Cameron. The producers are award winning filmmakers Felix Golubev and Ric Esther Bienstock. The director is Emmy award winning documentarian, Simcha Jacobovici.

1. Israel - 1980: During some construction work, a family tomb containing ossuaries was discovered dating back 2000 years. Until that time, about 1000 ossuaries (small stone tombs containing the bones of the dead) have been discovered. It was a burial method used in Israel for about 100 years.

The ossuaries are now in a warehouse in the Israel museaum. The bones were reburied as per Jewish tradition.

Every inscription in this particular tomb relates to the Gospels.

The inscriptions on the ossuaries:
"Jesus, son of Joseph", "Maria" (a rare name at that time that translates to Mary), "Mathew" (Luke, chapter 3 writes of many Mathews in Mary's lineage/geneology), Yose, brother of Jesus (gospel of Mark - the only Yose ever found in an ossuary), Mariamne (i.e. Mary Magdalene - only greek inscription --also inscribed Mara - the master. A DNA study shows that she was not related to Jesus indicating she was probably incuded in the tomb because they were married), "Judah, Son of Jesus" whose identity was probably hidden at the time for his own protection.

2. The tenth, missing ossuary from the tomb was found in a private collection. Inscribed "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus". The petina (forensic fingerpring) matches the Jesus ossuary.

3. A statistical study of the names during that period has the odds of those names appearing together in the tomb and not being the family of Jesus - 1 in 600. Adding in the James ossuary increases the odds to 1 in 30,000.

4. Not widely known, but generally accepted by historians -- Jesus had 2 sisters, 4 brothers -- james, joseph (josa), jude, and simon. One was stoned, one was crucified.

5. A blind women identified the exact location of the sealed up tomb entrance for the film crew. They found it full of parts of old religious textbooks, including the Book of Jonah, which Jesus once referred holding special significance.

6. The Acts of Phillip, describes Mary Magdelina as a christian missionary carrying the title of apostle. Some speculation that she was the founder of christianity.

7. An inverted V with a dot in the middle hangs over the tomb (pictured below). The symbol also appears on the ossuary of another christian leader linked to Jesus, found at another tomb.

8. Prophecy has it, that a "brother of James" bearing the symbol of the V reverted back to its upright position (and whose birthname translates to "savior"), would one day lead his people to progressive enlightenment* (*not actually in the film but included here for your consideration) :angel:

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Following "The lost Tomb of Jesus" the other night, the Discovery Channel had a follow-up program hosted by Ted Koppel with the producer on the panel and a bunch of religious zealots there to refute the findings based on little more than "faith".

Along the same lines, I just saw a 90 minute documentary entitled "Cracking Davinci's Code" which turned out to be a pure propoganda piece aimed at refuting the historical references and theories in the best selling novel.

It is amazing to what deceitful levels so called people of faith will go to for the purpose of protecting the church's version of the life of Christ. As if it would be so terrible if Jesus was a mere mortal who loved a women and had a child. As if it could be such a threat to "man"kind if a women named Mary held a special place at Jesus's table and was herself a true spiritual leader rather than a whore.

I know a whore when I've seen one, and it's not someone who sells their body. It's those who sell their soul to the church bureaucracy rather than align with the true spirit of Jesus Christ.

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Another so called "scholar" came out in the news against this finding on the premise that the ossuary with the "Mary Magdelina" inscription is actually interpreted as "Mary & Martha". The director points out that even if that were true, "Martha" is another name that is part of the Jesus family.

This "sholar" gives himself away by stating this tomb is indeed of Jesus "but not of Jesus Christ". "Not necessarily the tomb of Jesus Christ" can be a rational approach. "Not of Jesus Christ" is "My allegience is to the church and I will not allow myself or anyone else to entertain the notion that Jesus was mortal".

Hey, lighten up dudes of the cloth. No one is questioning whether Jesus was the son of god. You always told me when I was growing that we are all the children of god. The difference is, however, like many spiritual leaders, JC was getting a clearer reception on his internal cell phone.

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Hey, lighten up dudes of the cloth. No one is questioning whether Jesus was the son of god.

Well, in fact, some of us do think Christianity is all a scam to give child-molesters 10% of the pre-tax income of silly people.

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another entry into my journal of the media handling (manipulating) the "lost tomb" for the church:

Just saw a CNN segment that featured a historian dismissing the authenticity of the tomb marked "Jesus son of Joseph" because he says 75% of the citizen's names at that time would include one of the 16 names associated with Jesus. No other viewpoint was offered, even though the most conservative math on the half dozen names in this tomb appearing together would be 1 in 600.

A few minutes earlier, they did a segment on "Sex and Salvation" regarding the church "fighting for men's souls" over them watching internet pornography.

And yes, there was a ministry commercial aired between the segments.