What if we did find the bones of Jesus?
posted March 1st, 2007 at 8:23 pm by Betty
I would be happy to find the bones of Jesus.
For then, Jesus, (for me) would seem more connected to the earth. He would be more human — truly human. I would feel a closer connection to Jesus and better able to identify with him. I would be drawn closer to his mission and ministry.
Such a discovery would not change my sense of the divinity of Jesus. That sense would remain as it is.
And it would not mean that I no longer believe in the resurrection of Jesus. For I do.
I of course can’t say exactly how I would feel. But just to have the occasion for expressing these thoughts and asking hard questions may be the gift of this new film. It may, afterall, not be a discovery of consequence. 
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New York Times Article “Crypt Held Bodies of Jesus and Family, Film Says”
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March 2nd, 2007 at 11:33 am
Betty,
I totally agree! I have said for some time that I believe the value of much of the fiction, speculation, and documentaries surrounding Mary Magdalene and now the possible discovery of Jesus’s bones is that people are thinking for themselves and “asking hard questions.”
Bridgitt
March 2nd, 2007 at 6:11 pm
It would be delicious if this find were authenticated. Could it be? For the most literal believers, no amount of evidence would suffice.
But I would welcome a new path for Christianity, a turn away from literalism in interpreting the New Testament stories. A new orientation with less concern about “truth” and doctrinal matters, more focused on inner experience of the divine presence, would be a healthy development . . . and not coincidentally, congruent with the teachings of the Gospel of Mary.
March 3rd, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Pam,
Yes, it would be, wouldn’t it? You are certainly correct about those who wouldn’t believe if Christ himself stood before them and told them they’d been mislead all these centuries.
I, too, welcome a new path for Christianity. The divine presence within, as I am coming to recognize her, has given me more peace in just the last couple of years than all the doctrinal dogma I had drilled into me for the previous 50.
Bridgitt