How would the world react if archaeologists unearthed a 100  year old casket of a man (see details)?
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I think that even if that happened, it would be covered up, or people would find a way to rationalize it so that they would't have to believe that there really were vampires.  \n\nPeople only believe what they want to believe.
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If that were true there would be alot of dead bodies laying around.
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They'd be dead. They lived hundreds of thousands of years ago.
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no the research is not worth it. if we were digging up the tombs of the founding fathers of this country people would be up in arms. it is the common "white mans attitude" (i am white by the way) that the beliefs and coltures of everyone else simply do not matter to us. when we put someone in the ground we expect them to be left there for an eternity. not for a few thousand years as a time capsule for some future scientist to dig up and play around with. \n\nthe ancients put the bodies of their lost into the tombs for a reason, and i am quite sure that that reason was not for us to dig them up and play house with their remains.
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Sparky First let me say I appreciate the 10 pts. I don't know what I did to piss you off though. I told you to look up the work "Qumran" because it is one of the best documented archaeological finds in the world and I knew that there would be plenty of info online (which would be convenient for you). Would you rather me refer you to the dozens of books that I know of offhand or to an infinite # of archaeological reports that are incredibly boring to read? I studied Qumran under Jodi Magness at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and she is the foremost American Archaeologist in the world concerning the "holyland." In particular, she is definitely the foremost authority on Qumran, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found.  In case you don't know, archaeology is SCIENCE, not religion, and archaeological reports and finds are scientific and are not at all connected to the Church or any religion.  \n\nNothing in my answer to you dealt with religious dogma, I simply tried to answer your question as to why SOME Christians see a threat in the DaVinci code. Now, as for your claim that the bible was written 200 years after Christ, well that's true for some of the later NT books, but not of the Gospels. Some of the gnostic texts were much later than the gospels, which is part of the reason they were rejected by the church. \n\nAnd lastly, you claim that the bible has changed so many times that it's all crap. What do you have to support this? Go see the Dead Sea Scrolls some time, which were written between 2500-2000 yrs ago (as I visited a DSS exhibit about a month ago in Charlotte, NC). And then compare that to the KJV or the American Standard Bible.  The Old Testament found in the 1950s in the Caves near Qumran is nearly word for word with what we have today.  It is amazing that in 2000 or more years the Jewish text has changed so little!  This means that we should all reexamine the amount of credit we have granted the Jewish oral tradition that was so important to the early Christian Church.  IT IS ACCURATE, whether you want to admit it or not. SCIENCE and HISTORY support that.\n\nAgain, I answered your question rather well... Let me try one more time in FIVE SIMPLE SENTENCES that will be very easy for you to comprehend this time:\n\n1.  It wouldn't be so bad if Jesus was married.\n\n2.  Christians are NOT offended or threatened by the possibility that Jesus could have been married.\n\n3.  It's simply not historically true or believable, from the bible and from the writings of two Roman historians Tacitus and Josephus.\n\n4.  However, Some Christians ARE offended by the notion that Christ was not Divine; and the "The DaVinci Code" claims his having a child is proof that Jesus was NOT divine.\n\n5.  Such a claim can be damaging to the mission field because people like you believe anything and everything you read in a novel or see on TV and are therefore hostile toward Christianity.\n\nSo, that's why some Christians are offended by the DaVinci Code and by the notion that Christ might have been married to and had a child with Mary Magdalene.  Because of the hostility towards Christianity that such false belief creates.  People like you work directly against anyone trying to bring people to Christ.  \n\nPS.. the whole "MM was a whore" lost in translation thing.. do your history research man, you don't know what you are talking about at all.  You speak fiction and pass it off as truth. \n\nAnd you wonder why people would be offended?  maybe some people just like the truth?\n\nLet me ask you a question.  Why are you so offended by Christianity?  What are YOU afraid of?  The Truth?
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If you use the bible as your history book. Otherwise there's just speculation of what could have happened 2000 years ago.
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they have found remains of a huge wooden construction on Mount Arakat and the carbon dating looks about right .\nso it is very possible that it has been found.
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Guy is terrified at the idea of being buried alive (as were many people in that period).  Guy has elaborate bell-and-string device in his crypt so he can ring the bell even if he's dead.  Guy wakes up, thinks he's in a coffin (that doesn't have the bell), then realizes he's in a bunk in a boat.\n\nIt's been a long time since I read it, so take that at your own risk :-)
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It doesn't matter what anyone thinks. No one has come back to tell us, but all the evidence would support the idea that we don't go anywhere except to the grave.\n\nWherever it is, we'll all get there sooner or later.
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They need people to dig the graves.
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whoblitzell...since the stuff they found isn't dangerous, lets bury it in your backyard, okay? \n\nSaddam was a saint-of course he had no WMDs. That's why he wouldn't give the UN inspectors complete access, right? The guy buried entire combat jets-intact-in the desert. Is it perhaps possible that he has buried other, smaller things as well?
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I'm pretty sure that Google Earth is not up to date on its imagery, so in all likelyhood, if there is a dead body laying in Libya, it was probably there a couple years ago, and not still there.
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i wouldn't worry too much. with that kind of attitude you may not have time to retrieve anything except a nice hole in the ground with your selfish bones buried in it.
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It is supposed to be more than 2000 years.\nSee reference article.
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There was a Man found in the alps who dates back 5000 years. As for mammoths there have been many which have been found fully intact with fur and everything.
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if it wasn't true, do you think we would still be talking about it 2000 years later ???
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somehthing handed down from an ancestor of the past..Also could be a heritge.