So most art forgeries use canvases from the period of the original.
Also: "The French theologian Juan Calvino pointed out in the 16th century, in the midst of a boom in the traffic of relics where the pieces of the so-called “vera cruz” distributed by churches and monasteries abounded, that “if we wanted to collect everything that has been found (from the cross), there would be enough to carry a great ship. ”
A: He was the son of God! He could walk on water, heal any physical ailment with the mere touch of a hand, and freely clone matter in total defiance of the physical laws of conservation.
Q: Amazing! What happened to him?
A: A shoulder injury led to large tension hemothorax which resulted in fatal circulatory collapse.
Honestly yes that’s the point. The immortal becoming mortal to suffer for the sins of others. Not saying whether that’s all true or not just that … yes that’s the whole point.
Of all the things care to know about Jesus, this isn't it. Pretty sure the whole son-of-god aspect, the historicity of his life, the origin of his cult, many other things are more interesting than the potential exact cause of death of someone crucified by the Romans...
Based on what we know of the history of the very early church, it wouldn't have been easy for them to coordinate around making changes to the story - a centralized authority didn't exist until hundreds of years later. The total fabrication theory doesn't have a clear starting point for when everyone got together and decided to make up a character. That in my mind lends some credence to the idea that there was an individual that they could gather around.
If you look at how cults or religions got started in recent history, we never see a bunch of people coordinate in that kind of a way, where a lot of people disparately decide to invent a nonexistent leader and go around telling everyone that they recently died.
Could the central authority have later fabricated a history of the early church that made it look like there was a long period where nobody could have coordinated big changes? Maybe, but that is a standard that no set of historical documents could pass. (It's like suggesting that the Byzantines fabricated every single classical document including the tree-rings of ancient historians arguing with each other.)
As a Catholic, I’d love to read more about the science of Christianity.
Alas, I often find people who research this area start with a conclusion and cherry pick arguments to fit. Some perhaps don’t; but they are a minority and thus require digging through a lot of pseudoscientific material.
I find it to be the axioms people start with are wrong typically. At some point your arguments must be grounded in an objective reality -- otherwise any conclusion holds no value.
I will say I think it's awesome the Catholic church has their own astronomer. So at least their observations are grounded in a shared reality.
Political chicanery and despotism had their part I suspect. SO sure the proximal cause might be narrowed down, but it hardly seems critical to know exactly how somebody was tortured to death.
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Well, the Shroud of Turin is fake, so the conclusion is probably wrong.
More recent studies – conducted in 2012 and 2015 – argue instead that the science proves that the linen sheet dates precisely from the time of Jesus.
That's all I'm sayin'
Also: "The French theologian Juan Calvino pointed out in the 16th century, in the midst of a boom in the traffic of relics where the pieces of the so-called “vera cruz” distributed by churches and monasteries abounded, that “if we wanted to collect everything that has been found (from the cross), there would be enough to carry a great ship. ”
https://digismak.com/what-happened-to-the-cross-on-which-jes...
Shhh... we all know radiocarbon dating is pseudoscience.
A: He was the son of God! He could walk on water, heal any physical ailment with the mere touch of a hand, and freely clone matter in total defiance of the physical laws of conservation.
Q: Amazing! What happened to him?
A: A shoulder injury led to large tension hemothorax which resulted in fatal circulatory collapse.
Q: Oh, ok...
I guess we’ll just never know the motivation of the storytellers.
If you look at how cults or religions got started in recent history, we never see a bunch of people coordinate in that kind of a way, where a lot of people disparately decide to invent a nonexistent leader and go around telling everyone that they recently died.
Could the central authority have later fabricated a history of the early church that made it look like there was a long period where nobody could have coordinated big changes? Maybe, but that is a standard that no set of historical documents could pass. (It's like suggesting that the Byzantines fabricated every single classical document including the tree-rings of ancient historians arguing with each other.)
Alas, I often find people who research this area start with a conclusion and cherry pick arguments to fit. Some perhaps don’t; but they are a minority and thus require digging through a lot of pseudoscientific material.
A Doctor at Calvary: The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ As Described by a Surgeon https://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Calvary-Passion-Described-Surg...
The Agony of Jesus in the Garden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0eEegbDPGw
I will say I think it's awesome the Catholic church has their own astronomer. So at least their observations are grounded in a shared reality.
If you read the textbook that has 4 different accounts of what happened, politics is heavily featured in each one.