People often ask if science and religion are compatible. It's a reasonable question, given that science is based on verifiable facts, while most religions require blind acceptance of dogma based on faith. As science and religion seems to be constantly at odds. Science says: "Show me proof or I will not believe." Religion says, "Only believe, faith is believing without evidence." However, science and religion do not always work in opposition to each other can work together. One of the most prominent examples of this synergistic interaction can be found in the New York Times best-selling News of Jesus Family Tomb by Simcha Jacobovici and Charles Pellegrino.
This remarkable story began Thursday, March 27, 1980, when a bulldozer, clearing the foundation for a new apartment house in the region Talpoit in Jerusalem, opened a grave. Rivka Maoz, a recent immigrant to Jerusalem and a student of life in the vicinity of Archaeology, said that because of some unusual sculptures this tomb may be different from that of many other ancient tombs unearthed by bulldozers. She and Ephraim Shohat, an Orthodox Jew who led the project apartment, called the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) to send archaeologists examining the tomb, before its contents were looted and destroyed. Three archaeologists were sent. They are recorded in ten ossuaries, officially known as IAA80/500-509. The tomb was then known as the tomb of Ti ossuaries. All ten were removed and stored in the warehouse for storage of the IAA, but only nine made it to the warehouse. One disappeared.
One aspect of the Tomb of the Ten ossuaries ossuaries was that it contained. Ossuaries are bony. They were a Jewish custom to use only about 100 years at the time Jesus lived. Jesus was crucified around 30 CE and ossuaries ceased to be used from 70 of the EC after the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and the temple. And ossuaries are as accurate or more accurate than the radioisotope dating to determine the age of a tomb, and they are just marking the time Jesus lived.
Ossuaries are like miniature stone coffins too small to contain a body. During the time ossuaries were used after a person died, they were placed in a cave and the entrance was blocked by a rolling stone. A year later, the bones were collected and placed in an ossuary.
Besides the fact that the tomb had Talpoit ossuaries, so back to the approximate time of death of Jesus, the most fascinating aspect of this tomb was the name in the ossuaries. Of the nine ossuaries in the warehouse of the IAA, six had inscriptions on them. These inscriptions were: Mary (Maria), Joseph, Jesus son of Joseph and Judah son of Jesus, Mariamne (originally seen as another Mary) and Matthew. This could be the Gospel of Matthew and Matthew have been a relative of Jesus.
The ossuaries were removed tomb was sealed in a concrete shell, apparently never to be reviewed, and ossuaries gathering dust in a warehouse, also suitable forgotten. The curators of the collection apparently ignored the remarkable collection of names on these ossuaries be just as common names at that time. It took the application of science and studies by Charles Pellegrino, a Ph.D. in paleobiology and author of the bestseller, Titanic, and Simcha Jacobovici, Emmy-winning documentary producer, to show that the Tomb of the Ten ossuaries that order was high probability that Jesus' family tomb.
Important that the team found is that according to modern scholars, the real name of Mary Magdalene was Marianna. The first example of applying scientific principles to the grave with the science of statistics. Statistics are what you are told to multiply. It works as follows. Suppose we ask what proportion of the U.S. population was left-handed and had blue eyes. If 10% (1 / 10) was left-handed and 20% (1 / 20) had blue eyes, both parties must be multiplied together give a frequency of 1 / 200 left-handed blue-eyed. On the basis of all known ossuaries with inscriptions, the team was able to determine how much of the Jewish population in various ossuaries had names, said the Tomb of ten ossuaries. The calculations showed that the probability of a random collection of names was a 2400000. Some aspects of the further increase this number.
A statistic suggests that to be completely rigorous, the top number should be adjusted for known members of the family of Jesus were not in the grave. Once done, the probability is reduced to 1 / 600 that this cluster of names associated with Jesus could occur by chance. However, it is possible that one or more of the "disappeared" were people in four mass graves without names.
In the fall of 2002 Simcha heard of an article on the breakpoint on the cover of the magazine Biblical Archaeology in the discovery of an ossuary with the inscription of James, son of Joseph brother of Jesus. Oded Golan, a known collector of ancient Bible, which belongs to the ossuary. Where he is not clear. After the story broke on October 31, December 2002, a photo of the ossuary appeared on the cover of the New York Times. While some declared a forgery, even when science proves otherwise. He was one of the most proven artifacts of history and when testing the long-wave ultraviolet light is passed all tests with flying colors.
Another application of science to prove the patina covering the ossuaries. Each ossuary is covered with centuries of dust and debris. The patina of the ossuaries from the tomb containing certain quantities of unique elements of aluminum, calcium, iron, titanium and others. Elemental analysis can be distinguished patina graves near even. They showed that as expected, the nine ossuaries from the tomb of ten ossuaries stored in the warehouse of the IAA was done in the same grave. What they have also shown that Jacques was the son of Joseph brother of Jesus ossuary from this tomb and missing tenth ossuary. Adding this ossuary was further reduced the possibilities of this combination of names would occur by chance.
In a remarkable bit of detective work, tracked down the team and went into the original Talpiot tomb. He had not been filled with concrete anyway. This has been documented on film and shown on Discovery Channel at Easter, the 2003rd It was the highest rated show ever aired on Discovery Channel.
The last piece of applied science notable for the Tomb of the ten ossuaries were the analysis of mitochondrial DNA sequences of scrapings of Jesus and Mariamne ossuary of Mary Magdalene or ossuary. Mitochondria are small organisms trapped in the membranes of the cytoplasm of cells that generate energy source (ATP) of cells. They contain their own DNA, different from nuclear DNA. These studies showed that the DNA of Jesus and Mariamne ossuary ossuary were not related. The fact that they have been buried in the family tomb with family members suggests that they were husband and wife.
The most intriguing aspects of the family tomb of Jesus in terms of Christian doctrine that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were buried together are probably one married and had a son, Judah, who died in infancy, as Jesus had brothers and sisters, and the bones of Jesus were in the ossuary, not in heaven.
According to the Acts of Philip, Mary Magdalene was an apostle, who preached and baptized, and miracles of healing. That Mary Magdalene was a very different doctrine of the Church and the "fallen woman" at all. The presence of the mother (Mary) and father (Joseph), son (Jesus) and his wife (Mary Magdalene), and their son (Judah), and James, the brother of Jesus 'family tomb' of the town suggests that the family was no different from any other family, and that Mary, the mother there were six children and was not a virgin, and Jesus did not physically go to heaven.
What does this mean to the Christian doctrine that says Jesus was born of the virgin birth, and when he died, he ascended to heaven to join his true father, God? Assuming that his spirit went to heaven while his body remained on earth, the problem is not physically fit to enter heaven. This of course makes it different from other Christians killed millions of Jews and Muslims believe that if they behave their spirit would go to heaven. Mary had six children. The fact that it was not a virgin is not very surprising. The birth of the virgin mother of Jesus and his resurrection, the Christian doctrine has recorded a number of factors, of the New Testament to increase the credibility of a crucial part of Jesus' - which, unlike the rest of humanity, he was without sin, because he was born in a virgin mother, who was the son of God, and His resurrection, symbolized by his death for the sins of the rest of humanity.
Is it possible to be Christian and accept the above conclusions? Of course! Remarkable teachings of Jesus can be the basis of a spiritual and moral life, while his mother Mary was a virgin and although Jesus did not rise physically, not born free of "sin" was not the literal n "son of God." This rational form of Christianity requires that metaphorically, Jesus, miracles metaphorically, can lay the foundations of Christianity, and much less scientifically reasonable to Jesus from the dogmas of the Church. The metaphor of Jesus can be the basis of a rational Christianity and spirituality in the rational reason and religion are in conflict.
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