Wonderful, now we've even thought of a way to get around the last vestiges of what used to be called "shame". Still, given that last year 50% of the births in the UK were out of wedlock (the truly pathetic thing being that the MUSLIM AND HINDU COMMUNITIES have much better stats), shame obviously isn't much of a commodity in post-Christian Britain.
I weep for the curses my homeland is piling upon herself! Truly Christ's lament over Jerusalem in Matt. 23:37-39 seems just as applicable to modern Britain.
In answer to your question, no Simcha Jacobovici was doing bad archaeology from the start. When it came to the tomb, he had a conclusion he wanted to come to from the get-go and then he searched for anything that might prop-up his ridiculous assertions. All he had in the end was DNA that proved nothing, one scholars opinion about the name Mariamne from a Gnostic work written hundreds of years after Christ, and statistics that were utterly useless. The only value of the statistics would be if a tomb containing Christ actually existed in the 1000 or so similar tombs they've discovered in Israel.
Anyway, FWIW I went into detail why its all junk science, coupled with pop theology, wrapped up in media-hype doing the Devil's work in this Sermon:
Still Risen -- A Response to The Lost Tomb of Jesus http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?sermonID=35071320
Let me ask the question here that I asked elsewhere -
I'm not surprised by this kind of thing, and expect it to become the norm rather than the exception in the Western Democracies in future years, but after reading this particular article I did have one question to pose.
If *you* were sentenced to "community service" stuffing envelopes at an Islamic Society or forced to undergo indoctrination at one of their centers in order to meet the requirements of your probation, would you comply or would you accept the jail time instead?
I'll go ahead and freely admit that while I have no illusions about what jail is like - I've visited enough of them and spoken to enough prisoners to know I never want to go there - I would much rather go to jail than help an Islamic center spread lies from the pit of Hell via mail or even sit meekly through an indoctrination seminar. To me it seems far too close to burning the pinch of incense, and what is my life after all (James 4:14)? Or am I looking at this in the wrong way? Obviously the question is still mostly hypothetical for those living in the USA, but it certainly isn't for those living in countries where Christianity is prohibited and I don't think we should expect it to remain entirely hypothetical for long...
Just wondering... Am I the only one who thinks that the "Comments" feature for surveys and news items is the least edifying part of Sermon Audio? I'm always reminded of the kind of "discussions" that occurred in the playground at school.
The only thing missing is that we tend to see "Liar, Liar, pants on fire" and "Nyah, Nyah!" a little less frequently...
“ Great Sermon! ” You're very welcome, and you are probably right regarding the category. I just thought "audio dramatization" makes it sound like there will be music, sound effects, and different readers when it is just plain old me reading The Five Points of Calvinism. Anyway, I've changed the catagory.I just hope people aren't disappointed. ;-)
#1 is the Episcopal/Catholic/Lutheran view, you'd find in article 20 of the 39 articles. #2 is the Presbyterian and Reformed view you'd find in WCF 21.1 #3 appears to be the modern evangelical practice #4 seems to be what the natural man tends to believe
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