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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
IF...science poved, beyond any and all shadows of doubt, that the bones intered in that particular ossuary actually, and in fact, belonged to the one, and the only, Jesus Christ, your Lord and Saviour...then wouldn't that put one hell of a dent in "ascention"?
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No, because there are a few outs for this.
1. Faith operates outside of science anyways. (EX: How do Creationists explain dinosaur bones, fossils etc?). For the faithful, it doesn't matter a whole lot, they believe what they believe. (obviously this does matter for many, especially dogmatic institutions of Christianity such as Catholics).
2. The Ascent: Who or what actually ascended? The soul/spirit? The actual body? Maybe he left the bones behind? Wait, was Jesus black?
None of us were there anyways so we are basically taking someone's word for it anyways.
3. For some, the allegory is more important than a literal narrative. I don't care too much about the details cause that isn't what is important to me as a Christian. That is it is possible to separate the collection of stories from the "message" intellectually and then spiritually.
4. Hard science versus ambiguity of faith - Hmmm.... maybe this discovery and proof is a test to test the faithful....... Pretty powerful...
5. And of course, it is quite possible that Jesus was a charlatan, a confidence huckster of such charisma he fooled so many people. I am very much open to this possibility and it doesn't bother me.
Why? Why would so many reasonable intelligent people of logic, science, education, profession believe in this mythology (I use this term to be fair)?
Well, that, is FAITH. They take it as a matter of FAITH, that Jesus is who he says he is regardless of any scientific reasoning or logic etc.
That is the main difficulties in debating religion between believers and non-believers.