When the Catholic Church screamed "blasphemy" over this film, I (naturally) couldn't wait to get my hands on it. No, I'm not talking about "Harry Potter"… -I'm talking about
This documentary was quite an eye opener, and I'd recommend it to EVERYONE. -Especially those who claim to have faith. This film won't sway your beliefs in any way, and I don't see why the church made such a big stink over this fantastically coincidental archaeological discovery.
Executive Producer James Cameron, better known for "Titanic", presents this to us not as a ficticious movie, but as an unbiased, and factual documentary of the examination of the contents of a tomb. It's funny the way the church blindly, and ignorantly, blasted James Cameron for this film, when he didn't write it, direct it, shoot it or anything. -All he did was produce it.
In 1980, construction workers in Jerusalem uncovered a first-century tomb containing ten ossuaries (stone coffins). Six, of the ten, bore inscriptions: Jesus son of Joseph, Maria, Mariamene (the name by which Mary Magdalene was known), Joseph, Matthew and Judah son of Jesus. -ALL IN THE SAME UNDISTURBED TOMB.
Dismissed by archaeologists as coincidence, the ossuaries were warehoused and forgotton. -Apartments were constructed over the whole area, but the tomb wasn't destroyed… Just buried.
25 years later, filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici and his team went in search of these ossuaries, and the "lost" tomb.
OMG!!! You have GOT to see this film!!!
How could any church even POSSIBLY have a problem with this fantastic discovery?
Even if this really WAS the Christ family plot, how could it POSSIBLY change anyone's faith? Even the bible says of people "ashes to ashes, dust to dust". Even christians KNOW that peoples bodies decompose, while the spirit goes to heaven (or hell). Finding these particular coffins neither proves, or disproves, christianity in any way. Personally, I think it's pretty COOL to find such inscribed ossuaries. -I see it as proof that people REALLY DID have names like this 2000+ years ago, and these particular names coincide with scripture.
Common names for the time, or not, to find these particular names IN THE SAME TOMB is just fantastic!
-LOTS of info to think about in this film.
Think for yourselves. -Don't just be told.
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