Jesus’ family tomb

The Jesus family tomb – an upcoming movie that claims like Dan Brown, Jesus never died, in fact he had a son call Judas with Mary Magdalene, and now this James Cameron announced to the world that they found evidences that support this with a tomb that was discovered in Jerusalem in the 1980s.

Bar-Ilan University Professor Amos Kloner, a Jerusalem archeologist who officially oversaw the work at the tomb in 1980 and has published detailed findings on its contents, dismissed the claims. “It makes a great story for a TV film,” he told The Jerusalem Post Saturday night. “But it’s impossible. It’s nonsense,” he said

Like many gnostic including Dan Brown with his Davinci Code, James Cameron is another who with this sensational movie hopes to make millions. The University archaeologist Professor Amos Kloner himself dispute this claim, like Dan Brown’s research, it is flawed.

Why would this be so significant to the Christian faith? If anyone can prove that the event of resurrection did not happen, Christianity will fall. The singular foundation of our faith and our salvation is based on Jesus’ resurrection. (Romans 10:9-14)

The death of Christ deals with our Sin, Jesus is the ultimate Sin offering, which is the problem of Sin that which separated us from fellowship with God, and Resurrection deals with the effects of Sin, death primarily. Through Christ’s resurrection, death is defeated, the power of the Law is demolished in us, that we are no longer bound by the power of the Law (for none of us can by ourselves fulfill it, but Christ fulfill all laws). Therefore when a believer confesses with his mouth and believe that God raised Jesus from the death, he will be saved!

The devil wants to discredit this event, when people and even christians choose to believe that Jesus never did die and had children, the crux of our christian faith lies in ruin. However, even when produced with evidences that this movie is nothing but another Davinci Code sensation, many will not believe, for they are blinded. 2 Thessalonians 2:10 – They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved” for this reason, God sent a powerful delusion, that they will believe the lie and so have no believed the truth and doom themselves to destruction and wickedness. Truly the consequences of Sin are not just eternal death, but destruction based on our belief in a lie. I plead that whosoever watches this movie, stands firm in your faith.

Why the resurrection is a truth, and why James Cameron’s research is flawed?

The resurrection is a factual event while this Tomb is not. Resurrection is confirmed by more than 70 people, of whom of different groups, and of different social circle of Jesus. The Tomb today is empty, otherwise the Pharisees would use it to squash all rumours of Jesus being resurrected. The strongest evidence presented here, is not from a favourable group, but enemies of Christ. What easier way to destroy a new sect than to hit at the foundation of their belief – the resurrection. The resurrection and the incidents have been recorded by both within the church, and outside the church. Romans besides great conquerors, they detailed historical events carefully such as Josephus etc.

This tomb is based on inscription of which the expert at the university in Jerusalem has disputed its authenticity.

If this is true, than Dan Brown’s research must be true, but their researches are flawed as their resting place of Mary is contradicting each other, so who is right and who is wrong? Both.

On the more spiritual note, this movie and many more, will come and hit at the central doctrines of Christianity – the person of Jesus, His death, and His resurrection. Josh McDowell has a line of argument which easily point us the right way – Who is Jesus? Is he a liar, lunatic or really Lord?

Liar, will a good man die for a lie? Jesus died because He said he is God himself, that’s the charge that puts him on the Cross. Will thousands if not millions die a martyr death since the Roman Empire till today in India, and remote pat of Africa? That they are willing to die for their faith in Christ? Will you die for a lie?

Lunatic. Jesus’ teachings have confounded the world even the skeptics. Thousands may not acknowledge His deity, but cannot deny the clarity and love in the teaching of this man. Jesus is the single inspiration for many advances in our world today – education, science, philosophy, sociology, etc.

If Jesus is not a liar, or a lunatic, He must be Lord! He said He is, and He died for our sins, and He is risen from the dead and the tomb is empty today. This is my creed and my faith that Jesus died and rose again and sits at the right hand of our Father interceding for us!