The W
Views: 178988952
Main | FAQ | Search: Y! / G | Color chart | Log in for more!
28.3.17 0521
The 7 - Current Events & Politics - Jesus Box a fake Register and log in to post!
(2434 newer) Next thread | Previous thread
User
Post (12 total)
Guru Zim
SQL Dejection
Administrator
Level: 152

Posts: 1208/6207
EXP: 44132085
For next: 169677

Since: 9.12.01
From: Bay City, OR

Since last post: 8 days
Last activity: 14 hours
AIM:  
ICQ:  
Y!:
#1 Posted on 7.11.02 1647.35
Reposted on: 7.11.09 1649.34
http://web.israelinsider.com/bin/en.jsp?enZone=Views&enDisplay=view&enPage=ViewsPage&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Article^l1569
Promote this thread!
Fletch
Cotechino
Level: 24

Posts: 82/89
EXP: 74745
For next: 3381

Since: 17.7.02
From: Columbus, Ohio

Since last post: 7810 days
Last activity: 7807 days
#2 Posted on 7.11.02 1703.43
Reposted on: 7.11.09 1712.46
Now that would be a kick ass name for a consol system...

I'm not at all shocked.
Feely
Merguez
Level: 60

Posts: 201/723
EXP: 1721725
For next: 51063

Since: 6.10.02
From: Long Island, NY

Since last post: 3701 days
Last activity: 579 days
#3 Posted on 7.11.02 1732.10
Reposted on: 7.11.09 1733.38
Boo. I'm disappointed. JESUS WOULD REIGN SUPREME AS THE ONE TRUE GOD. Bah.
The Goon
Banger
Moderator
Level: 103

Posts: 340/2519
EXP: 11393064
For next: 78381

Since: 2.1.02
From: Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Since last post: 862 days
Last activity: 840 days
#4 Posted on 7.11.02 2113.51
Reposted on: 7.11.09 2114.20
Crap. Oh well, back to religious wars, then!
Grimis
Scrapple
Level: 135

Posts: 559/4700
EXP: 28695045
For next: 640036

Since: 11.7.02
From: MD

Since last post: 4713 days
Last activity: 3167 days
#5 Posted on 8.11.02 0608.27
Reposted on: 8.11.09 0614.11
Is it just me or does anybody else have no confidence that John Paul II could ever raise an army to defend the Catholic church?
DMC
Liverwurst
Level: 74

Posts: 671/1180
EXP: 3651294
For next: 2267

Since: 8.1.02
From: Modesto, CA

Since last post: 6919 days
Last activity: 6913 days
#6 Posted on 8.11.02 1214.12
Reposted on: 8.11.09 1214.16
I saw this article yesterday too. I think you have to wait and see how this plays out, and you have to get other opinions from experts on ancient inscriptions. Biblical Archaeology Review is as good of a place as any to get that, so we'll have to wait and see how it plays out in the pages of BAR in the upcomming months. (Too bad I let that subscription expire.)

Speaking just as a historian and not as an expert in paleography, I would have to say that the author did not totally make her case. Just because the second part of the inscription may be written by a second person, and someone who was not as literate as the first person, does not mean it could not all originate in the first century. After all, she labors the point that not all inscriptions were made by pros, and were often done by family members. It is very possible that another family member at the time, and a less literate one, or perhaps even a non-Jewish family friend, wanted to memorialize the fact that this was Jesus' brother, and thus made the second inscription. I don't know, it could still be a later fake (the owner who had it seems to be somewhat blank about it), but for right now I'm still willing to give it the benefit of the doubt.

DMC
redsoxnation
Scrapple
Level: 165

Posts: 862/7534
EXP: 58188955
For next: 746850

Since: 24.7.02

Since last post: 3923 days
Last activity: 3923 days
#7 Posted on 8.11.02 1838.37
Reposted on: 8.11.09 1846.29
I'd be more concerned if Mary Magdalin's box was a fake.
Thank you, I'll be here all week.
Stephanie
Landjager
Level: 68

Posts: 569/947
EXP: 2626205
For next: 102609

Since: 2.1.02
From: Madison, WI

Since last post: 614 days
Last activity: 54 days
#8 Posted on 9.11.02 0335.15
Reposted on: 9.11.09 0336.54
Looking at the picture provided, the second part of the inscription definitely has a "penciled-in" look. I'll let the scholars have a crack at this first, but just looking at it, you get the feeling that someone was thinking, "If I add this to the inscription, I can charge more for it".

Steph
OlFuzzyBastard
Knackwurst
Level: 112

Posts: 694/3066
EXP: 15189151
For next: 149102

Since: 28.4.02
From: Pittsburgh, PA

Since last post: 1818 days
Last activity: 995 days
AIM:  
#9 Posted on 9.11.02 1205.12
Reposted on: 9.11.09 1208.34
As I said before - even if this was real, it wouldn't prove anything about the validity of Christianity. It would prove Jesus existed, but I know very few people who doubt there was ever a such person as Jesus Christ.
El Nastio
Banger
Level: 104

Posts: 625/2576
EXP: 11773317
For next: 88848

Since: 14.1.02
From: Ottawa Ontario, by way of Walkerton

Since last post: 43 days
Last activity: 28 days
ICQ:  
#10 Posted on 10.11.02 2210.19
Reposted on: 10.11.09 2212.08

    Originally posted by Grimis
    Is it just me or does anybody else have no confidence that John Paul II could ever raise an army to defend the Catholic church?



I have the confidence, but that's to be expected I guess.



As for the box, if it's not true that won't change my mind at all regarding Christ. Christ is Christ, I don't need that box as proof to myself that Christ exsists because I have faith.
cranlsn
Toulouse
Level: 76

Posts: 183/1231
EXP: 3874191
For next: 131888

Since: 18.3.02
From: Hartland, WI

Since last post: 1964 days
Last activity: 66 days
#11 Posted on 10.11.02 2253.10
Reposted on: 10.11.09 2259.03

    Originally posted by El Nastio

    As for the box, if it's not true that won't change my mind at all regarding Christ. Christ is Christ, I don't need that box as proof to myself that Christ exsists because I have faith.



I'm with you on that, hence the term "blind faith". Some have taken that term to mean something bad, i.e following blindly or stupidly.

I take it to mean that regardless of whether or not I've seen Him, I know/have faith that he exists. See without seeing...get it?

As for the box, I don't know that anything "religiously" conclusive can come from modern science. We can put it in the proper date/time frame, and possibly compare the inscriptions with previously found relics, but none of us will ever know for sure. At least not in this world.
dMp
Knackwurst
Level: 111

Posts: 873/3003
EXP: 14827818
For next: 40588

Since: 4.1.02
From: The Hague, Netherlands (Europe)

Since last post: 265 days
Last activity: 11 hours
#12 Posted on 11.11.02 0127.54
Reposted on: 11.11.09 0129.02
Imo faith is always blind, but not in a bad way.

I think it has been established for 90% or so that there was a historical Jesus. That would be a fact.
If that Jesus was the son of God would be faith as we cannot prove that from a logical point of view.

But does it matter really? As Douglas Adams wrote, if we prove God exists there is no more faith and believe..it would ruin the whole ting.

As for the pope raising an army..the man cannot raise an arm by himself. But don't worry..if there would be religious wars all masses will rise and kill to prove their point..

ALL ORIGINAL POSTS IN THIS THREAD ARE NOW AVAILABLE
Thread ahead: For Fuzzy
Next thread: POW Transport Photos
Previous thread: Al Qaeda and Everyone else
(2434 newer) Next thread | Previous thread
The 7 - Current Events & Politics - Jesus Box a fakeRegister and log in to post!

The W™ message board - 7 year recycle

ZimBoard
©2001-2024 Brothers Zim
This old hunk of junk rendered your page in 0.206 seconds.