Tomb of Jesus?
Or Just Another Hollywood Scam?
By D.W.

Hollywood director James Cameron, who dammed all straight men to three hours of hell with Titanic, is up to new antics. He has presented ancient artifacts in which he suggests that they might very well have come from the tomb of Jesus and that may have once contained his remains, those of Mary Magdalene, and possibly their son, Judah. Of course the timing of this discovery coincides with the promotion of his documentary and perhaps his anti-Christian, liberal agenda. He may also just be hungry for attention since his career isn’t really going anywhere.

Devout Christians suspect that this whole event is nothing more than a fraud and a publicity stunt because of its loose archeological underpinnings.

Mr. Cameron and some scholars displayed two stone ossuaries, or bone boxes, at a news conference which is just proactive enough to fire up the secular progressives but not enough to get him in legal trouble. The artifacts were found in 1980 during construction in South Jerusalem. Several had inscriptions translated as Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and "Judah, son of Jesus.
 

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Cameron said, "If things come to light that erode this investigation, then so be it."

The issue of the tomb is not new as this controversy has been debated for quite a while. What is new is the involvement of a high profile Hollywood director such as Cameron in the wake of the bogus but highly lucrative Da Vinci Code book, movie, and the hoopla attached to it.

A few low key documentaries have already been aired about the tomb and most of the work is either inconclusive or found it to be a hoax. The Israelis, who have no interest in protecting Christianity including the archeologist who also carried out excavations at the site on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, disputed the documentary's conclusions. The archeologist, Amos Kloner, said the 2,000-year-old cave contained coffins belonging to a Jewish family whose names were similar to those of Jesus and his relatives. Kloner told Reuters:

"I can say positively that I don't accept the identification (as) ... belonging to the family of Jesus in Jerusalem... I don't accept that the family of Miriam and Yosef (Mary and Joseph), the parents of Jesus, had a family tomb in Jerusalem."

The names Jesus, Judah, and Mary were common Jewish names of the era, like Brian, Chris and Kate are today. I bet that there are plenty of families that have someone named Brian, Chris and Kate in the United States right now. After Jesus’ death, these names probably became even more popular with the Christian Jews of that era. The names would prove absolutely nothing even if the tomb was real.

But what are real are the motives of Cameron and his associates who have a clear and vested financial interest in the conflict?

If you scratched the surface you would find the members of the Da Vinci Code crowd right behind this issue because it has taken on a cult status. Consequently, the tomb is the kind of evidence to support their fraudulent theories of Jesus and it would directly benefit them with increased sales of books and movies.

The main point of the Da Vinci Code is that Christ was a man just like everyone else although an extraordinary philosopher. He wasn’t the son of God as the New Testament claims and wasn’t divine. They attempt to prove this assertion by showing that Jesus had sexual relations with Mary Magdalene who bore a child. And since God wouldn’t have sex, Christ must be only a human and not divine. As a result, the teachings are just a good philosophy that would make the world a nicer place but not a religion.

Furthermore, Christianity wouldn’t have any truth or grounding in the spiritual world and organized religion is bogus. Following Christianity wouldn’t get you into heaven and there would be no real need for a church since anyone could follow the philosophy of Jesus independently.

The moral implications of this are profound since Western civilization is founded on the Judea-Christian moral system of absolute truths. Christianity lays clear wrongs and rights that men cannot alter. However, this ethical code is opposed by moral relativists who argue that all morality is a purely human creation and is time and place specific. Whatever man says is moral is moral because man makes the rules to suit him.

In a morally relativistic society that secular liberals like Cameron crave, anything goes if you say so.

If the people in a place like California or some kooky judges say it is okay for men to have sex with young boys because it is supposed be normal, then that will fly. Human secularism seeks to indulge in their most vulgar desires openly without any restraints placed upon them as they now exist. For them, Christianity is just an obstacle so they are best served by undermining it.

The supposed tomb of Jesus is just the latest effort to subvert the very foundation of Christian morality.

The tomb itself is more than likely a fraud and there are already plenty of trustworthy and reliable sources to cast sufficient doubt on this incident. Just remember, Cameron has a vested interest in this affair which could make him a lot of money. 

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