Non-Christians, where is the body of Jesus of Nazareth?

[Jonathan Mathews]

This question is for non-Christians:

Where is the body of Jesus of Nazareth? I want to hear what you believe.

Thanks

 

[Freodin]

This question is for non-Christians:

Where is the body of Jesus of Nazareth? I want to hear what you believe.

Thanks

If you accept that there really was a historical Jesus, about 2000 years ago, I would say that his body is most likely in the same place as the bodies of the vast majority of other human beings who lived 2000 years ago. Rotten and gone.

 

[Monk Brendan]

This question is for non-Christians:

Where is the body of Jesus of Nazareth? I want to hear what you believe.

Thanks

I saw a silly TV show on the Discovery channel claiming that the Body of Jesus of Nazareth is hidden in the Vatican Secret Archives.

 

[Jonathan Mathews]

If you accept that there really was a historical Jesus, about 2000 years ago, I would say that his body is most likely in the same place as the bodies of the vast majority of other human beings who lived 2000 years ago. Rotten and gone.

Do you "accept there was really an historical Jesus"?

 

[Monk Brendan]

If you accept that there really was a historical Jesus, about 2000 years ago, I would say that his body is most likely in the same place as the bodies of the vast majority of other human beings who lived 2000 years ago. Rotten and gone.

People more learned than I--or apparently you--have said that the historicity of Jesus of Nazareth is as axiomatic for historians as that of Julius Caesar.

 

[Monk Brendan]

This question is for non-Christians:

Where is the body of Jesus of Nazareth? I want to hear what you believe.

Thanks

I forgot to mention that the Discovery Channell would NEVER have made such a program about Mahomet.

 

[Jonathan Mathews]

I saw a silly TV show on the Discovery channel claiming that the Body of Jesus of Nazareth is hidden in the Vatican Secret Archives.

Do you believe it is there?

 

[TheOldWays]

If you accept that there really was a historical Jesus, about 2000 years ago, I would say that his body is most likely in the same place as the bodies of the vast majority of other human beings who lived 2000 years ago. Rotten and gone.

This. His body, just like the bodies of most people who lived around 2000 years ago, would be long gone.

 

[Freodin]

Do you "accept there was really an historical Jesus"?

That wasn't the question, was it?
But, yes, I think there was a historical figure that was used as basis for the biblical figure of "Jesus".

 

[Monk Brendan]

Do you believe it is there?

Of course not.

Haven't you ever heard of the Ascension, observed on the Thursday 40 days after Pascha?

 

[Jonathan Mathews]

That wasn't the question, was it?
But, yes, I think there was a historical figure that was used as basis for the biblical figure of "Jesus".

Why do you believe that? Is there some evidence outside the Bible you have seen?

 

[MariaJLM]

Ex-atheist here. Most simply accept that either Jesus didn't exist or that the body decayed like any other. The latter is the more common view, obviously.

 

[Freodin]

Why do you believe that? Is there some evidence outside the Bible you have seen?

Only the general experience of a historian that most myths are, in whatever form, based on real events.

But again: this wasn't the question of this thread, was it? Perhaps you should make another thread where you want to discuss the mythological-Jesus-hypothesis?

 

[FireDragon76]

I saw a silly TV show on the Discovery channel claiming that the Body of Jesus of Nazareth is hidden in the Vatican Secret Archives.

Right next to the Roswell aliens, no doubt.

 

[Monk Brendan]

Right next to the Roswell aliens, no doubt.

Actually, no.

IT was followed by two other bash-the-Christians shows.

 

[Monk Brendan]

If you accept that there really was a historical Jesus, about 2000 years ago, I would say that his body is most likely in the same place as the bodies of the vast majority of other human beings who lived 2000 years ago. Rotten and gone.

Do you deny the historicity of Sargon? of Socrates? of Augustus Caesar?

 

[bekkilyn]

Right next to the Roswell aliens, no doubt.

I think it's in the Pentagon with the Ark.

 

[Freodin]

Do you deny the historicity of Sargon? of Socrates? of Augustus Caesar?

I really wonder why this is an issue.

I answered the question of the OP. I answered his question in regard to my position on the myth-Jesus.

Why do you hook on that, instead of the topic of this thread? Are you so desperate to verbally beat up someone who might disagree with you?

 

[Tony Bristow-Stagg]

This question is for non-Christians:

Where is the body of Jesus of Nazareth? I want to hear what you believe.

Thanks

My thought it would have been taken away and buried in secret. Most likely now under the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. I see that it was Christ, the Spirit of Jesus, that was raised to fulfill the promise at the end of ages.

I base those thoughts on what became of the grave of Jesus who was buried outside the walls. They then turned that place into a rubbish dump. It was when the Emperor Constantine the Great ascended to the throne, who was the first Christian monarch in the third century A.D. I twas recorded that he asked his mother Helena to find the site of Christ’s tomb. Records show that She searched for it and had believed that she had found it. It was on that spot that Bishop Macarius of Jerusalem built the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, which of course is now deep within Jerusalem’s extended walls.

Emperor Constantine sent to Bishop Macarius this letter:

Such is our Saviour’s grace, that no power of language seems adequate to describe the wondrous circumstance to which I am about to refer. For, that the monument of his most holy Passion, so long ago buried beneath the ground, should have remained unknown for so long a series of years, until its reappearance to his servants now set free through the removal of him who was the common enemy of all [the previous emperor, Hadrian], is a fact which truly surpasses all admiration…

Regards Tony

 

[Monk Brendan]

I really wonder why this is an issue.

I answered the question of the OP. I answered his question in regard to my position on the myth-Jesus.

Why do you hook on that, instead of the topic of this thread? Are you so desperate to verbally beat up someone who might disagree with you?

Sounds more to me like you want to beat up Christians.