The Lost Tomb of Jesus

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The Lost Tomb of Jesus

• 1 Cor 15

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Easter 2008

• Will it make any difference to your life this
  Easter?

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In 1980 tomb found
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James Cameron Executive producer
Simcha Jacobovici Director/Producer/Writer
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20 ossuaries have inscriptions 6 of these 10 had
inscriptions
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Yeshua bar Yosef
Jesus Son of Joseph
20 ossuaries have inscriptions
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Mariamnou e Mara
Mary Magdalene in Acts of Philip who spoke Greek

• Greek Mary known as Master

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Maria

• Hebrew Script for Latin Name

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Yose

• Like Joey short form for Joseph

Matthew 1355 55 Is not this the carpenter's
son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not
his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?
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Yaakov bar Yosef a kui d Yeshua

• Aramaic James son of Joseph brother of Jesus

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Yehuda Bar Yeshua

• Aramaic Judah son of Jesus

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Matia

• Matthew in Hebrew

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The Grand Hypothesis
Maria
Matthew
Joseph
Jesus
James
Joseph
Judas Simon Miriam Salome
Mary M
Judah
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The Marriage Hypothesis
Jesus
Mary M
Judah
Mitochondrial DNA of Jesus and Mary do not
match Therefore they are married.
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Spiritual Ascension
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If this is ossuary of Jesus Christ?
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Bush and King Abdullah
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A. Preaching waste of time because it is about a
useless Faith

• 1 Corinthians 1514 14 And if Christ has not
  been raised, then our preaching is in vain and
  your faith is in vain.

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2. Misrepresenting God

• 1 Corinthians 1515 15 We are even found to be
  misrepresenting God, because we testified about
  God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise
  if it is true that the dead are not raised.

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3. Still in sinsunder curse of death

• 1 Corinthians 1517-18 17 And if Christ has not
  been raised, your faith is futile and you are
  still in your sins.
• 18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in
  Christ have perished.

FBC
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Closer Examination

• Never afraid of the truth
• Jesus the Way, the Truth , the Life

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Why Jerusalem when home town of Jesus is Nazareth?
Nazareth
Jesusalem
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Yeshua bar Yosef

• Jesus is never called son of Joseph by anyone
  who knew him intimately in the NT--- not by his
  family members, and not by his disciples.

Hostile Jews -John 642 42 They said, "Is not
this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and
mother we know? Mark 63 3 Is not this the
carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James
and Joses and Judas and Simon?
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Hastily scribbled grafitti?
prepare an ossuary over a years period and then
choose to adorn this ossuary of Jesus with
graffiti-like script to name their dead hero
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Occurrences of Names within a list of 2625 names
of Palestinian Jews
1 Simon/Simeon 243 (9) 2 Joseph 218 (8)
3 Eleazar 166 (6) 4 Judah 164 (6)5
John/Yohanan 122(5) 6 Jesus 99 (4) 7
Hananiah 82 (3) 8 Jonathan 71 (3) 9
Matthew 62 ((2) 10 Manaen/Menahem 42 (1.5)

by Prof Richard Bauckham of St. Andrews cited by
Darrel Bock
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Occurrences of Names in ossuaries
1 Simon/Simeon 592 Joseph 45 3 Judah
444 Eleazar 295 John/Yohanan 256
Jesus 227 Hananiah 188 Matthew
179 Jonathan 1410 Manaen/Menahem 4
by Prof Richard Bauckham of St. Andrews cited by
Darrel Bock
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Mr Wong
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The hypothesis
Maria
Matthew
Joseph
Jesus
James
Joseph
Judas Simon Miriam Salome
Mary M
Judah
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Maria
Why would Mary be called by her Latin equivalent
when She was Hebrew? AD 70 Romans razed Jerusalem

• Hebrew Script for Latin Name

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Occurrences of Names within a list of 328 names
of Palestinian Jewish women
Mary 70 (21)Salome 58 (18)Shelamzion
24 (7)Martha 20 (7)
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Occurrences of Names in ossuaries
Mary 42 Salome 40 Shelamzion 19 Martha
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The hypothesis
Matthew
Maria
Joseph
Jesus
James
Joseph
Judas Simon Miriam Salome
Mary Magdalene
Judah
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Mariamnou/Mara is not necessarily Mary Magdalene

• 1. Why is the name in Greek and not Aramaic esp
  if she grew up in a Jewish fishing village called
  Migdal, not a Greek city at all. Why would
  husband have Aramaic name?
• 2. Mary Magdalene is called Maria constantly in
  first century Christian literature, and indeed
  well into the second century as well. She is
  never called Mariamene or the like

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Mariamnou/Mara - Mary Magdalene
connectionGospel of Philip 4th Century

kiss her .. possibly "often" on her possibly
"mouth."
Koinonos partaker, partner, participant, one
who shares not nec wife
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Mariamnou/Mara is not necessarily Mary Magdalene

• 4. Mara is abbreviated form for Martha

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Mariamnou/Mara means Mary and Martha
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The Marriage Hypothesis
Jesus
Mary M
Judah
Mitochondrial DNA of Jesus and Mary do not
match Therefore they are married.
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Mitochondrial DNA
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Different DNA does it mean they are married?

• How many people in KL do not have same DNA with
  you?

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Contradicts the theory that this is family tomb
Jesus
Mary M
Judah

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The DNA trail
Maria
Matthew
Joseph
Jesus
James
Joseph
Judas Simon Miriam Salome
Mary M
Judah
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The hypothesis
Matthew
Maria
Joseph
Jesus
James
Joseph
Judas Simon Miriam Salome
Mary M
Judah
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Yaakov bar Yosef a kui d Yeshua

• Aramaic James son of Joseph brother of Jesus

Proven False
Photo of James Ossuary dated to 1970 But tomb
found in 1980. by FBI photo lab
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Why is Matthew there at all?
Matthew
Maria
Joseph
Jesus
James
Joseph
Judas Simon Miriam Salome
Mary M
Judah
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More Plausible Alternative
Original archeologists in 1980 never thought it
was Jesus tomb
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I hope so, but no man can know.
Socrates

•   Shall we live again? his friends asked. The
  dying philosopher could only reply,

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Easter is the celebration of the fact that today
we can know

• We know because..5 reasons

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1. Five Hundred Witnesses

• 1 Corinthians 154-6 4 that he was buried, that
  he was raised on the third day in accordance with
  the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to
  Cephas, then to the twelve. 6 Then he appeared
  to more than five hundred brothers at one time,
  most of whom are still alive, though some have
  fallen asleep.

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24,000 copies of early New Testament manuscripts
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Sir Lionel Lukhoo
14 years as the world's most successful advocate
(Guinness Book of World Records)

• I say unequivocally the evidence for the
  resurrection of Jesus Christ is so overwhelming
  that it compels acceptance by proof which leaves
  absolutely no room for doubt!"

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2. Changed lives of Disciples

• 1 Corinthians 1532 32 What do I gain if,
  humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at
  Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, "Let us eat
  and drink, for tomorrow we die."

Suicide bombers
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More martyrs this century than all the previous
19 centuries after Christ (45million vs
25million) The average number of Christian
martyrs per year worldwide is 163,000. 200
million followers of Christ suffering today
Helsinki International Federation for Human
Rights 1998
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3. Christ is the first fruit

• Corinthians 1520 20 But in fact Christ has
  been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of
  those who have fallen asleep.

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First Fruits
First product Representative
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The possibility
5th May 1954 3 min 59.4 s 14 Men since
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Hope
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The fall of evil

• Our inner revulsion against injustice and
  corruption stems from our inbuilt desire for
  God-righteousness..made in his image

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Zakaria is not your enemy
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55 "O death, where is your victory? O death,
where is your sting?" 56 The sting of death is
sin, and the power of sin is the law
The most certain thing in the world Paradoxically
the most surprising thing Squabbling amongst
opp Story of allergic boy
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Where death reigns is Sin
Can you trust him?
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The only one

• Taking the sting out

. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the
victory through our Lord Jesus Christ
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That's one small step for a man, one giant leap
for mankind

• Solidarity

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Solidarity in Jesus Ressurection means Hope
1 Corinthians 1521-22 21 For as by a man came
death, by a man has come also the resurrection of
the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, so also in
Christ shall all be made alive.
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First Fruits Guarantee of what is to come

• 1 Corinthians 1523 23 But each in his own
  order Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming
  those who belong to Christ.

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Buying a house
Time Representation Guarantee
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4. Ressurrection is proof the power of Christ
over the power of evil

• 1 Corinthians 1524-26 24 Then comes the end,
  when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father
  after destroying every rule and every authority
  and power. 25 For he must reign until he has put
  all his enemies under his feet. 26 The last
  enemy to be destroyed is death

Not one off, part of Gods plan , you cannot see
the spiritual powers tumble
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It aint over till the fat lady sings
26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death
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5. The pattern and logic of the resurrection is
already seen in nature

• 35 But someone will ask, "How are the dead
  raised? With what kind of body do they come?"

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36 You foolish person! What you sow does not come
to life unless it dies. 37 And what you sow is
not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel,
perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.
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Divinely directed correspondance
1 Corinthians 1538 38 But God gives it a body
as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its
own body.
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Divine correspondance

• 43 It is sown in dishonor it is raised in
  glory.
• It is sown in weakness ..it is raised in power.
  
• 44 It is sown a natural body it is raised a
  spiritual body.
• If there is a natural body, there is also a
  spiritual body.

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49 And just as we have borne the likeness of the
earthly man,so shall we bear the likeness of
the heavenly man.
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51 Listen,I tell you a mystery We will not all
sleep,but we will all be changed
52 in a flash,in the twinkling of an eye,at the
last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound
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the dead will be raised imperishable,and we will
be changed.
Story Of 80 y man
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Benjamin Franklin

• The Body of B. Franklin, PrinterLike the Cover
  of an old BookIts contents torn out,And stript
  of its Lettering and Guilding,Lies here, Food
  for Worms,But the Work shall not be wholly
  lostFor it will, as he believd,Appear once
  moreIn a new more perfect Edition,Corrected
  and amended by the Author.
• Source unknown

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Buddhas Finger
1981 flood in central China. ancient pagoda
collapsed at Famen Temple
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The Choice is Yours
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The Easter Proposition

• John 1125-26 25 Jesus said to her, "I am the
  resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in
  me, though he die, yet shall he live, 26 and
  everyone who lives and believes in me shall never
  die. Do you believe this?"

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Christians

• 58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast,
  immovable, always abounding in the work of the
  Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not
  in vain.

"If there is no HOPE in the future, there is no
work in the present. Too busy fighting each
other, criticising Last time -maranatha
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There is a lost tomb
But it is empty