Upper Room and Tomb of Jesus

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March 4, the Discovery Channel will air the film - The Lost Tomb of Jesus. It will also be shown on Vision TV on March 6.

It is based on the book The Jesus Family Tomb by Simcha Jacobovici and Charles Pellegrino. In a television panel interview, Pellegrino maintains that he is approaching this topic in a reverent manner. Other panelists are sceptical. One panelists feels that this is another one of the annual assaults or seeds of doubt against Christianity.

Other sceptics include the person who originally found the ossuaries about 30 years ago. The names are common Jewish names.

Another sceptic said that he would want to determine:

• if the writing on the tomb is the same age as the tomb.
• whether DNA shows that the Mary is the mother of Jesus
• how a Nazareen family came to be buried in Jerusalem

The same sceptic feels that there is interest in this topic because people are dissatisfied with the biblical narrative of Jesus life. Do you agree or disagree?

Yet, another sceptic wonders why DNA is being used to "prove" religion. Do you think that's what's happening here?

The media is making the case that the site of "Jesus' remains" creates a problem for the Christianity. How does Christianity reconcile physical remains and a different site with the traditional site of Jesus tomb, resurrection, which is now a church? Is that a problem or is the media making it so?

Some claim that the possibility of Jesus fathering a child -(there is a son named on one of the ostuaries) - is explosive and that Jesus was against sexual activity. Do you agree of disagree? How does that change your image of Jesus?

If the bones of Jesus have actually been found, does that present problems for our faith, or does it strengthen it? Would it change your faith?