Monday, December 20, 2004

James the Apostle's Ossuary

Last night I was watching 60 Minutes on CBS. They had a story about an ossuary that was found and put on display. The link below will take you to the article on cbsnews.com:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/12/17/60minutes/main661815.shtml

An ossuary is a sort of coffin that contains the bones of the deceased. This ossuary was particularly interesting because of its inscription that read, "James son of Joseph, brother of Jesus". I have to admit that when I heard that, I became very excited. Think of it, what a thing to have a real life piece of history directly connected to Jesus! So excited that I called my girlfriend to tell her. When I got back to the show, they were talking about the rest of the issues that had been raised about the ossuary and the controversy surounding it.

Long story short, there is evidence that not everything about the ossuary is on the up and up. Bottom line: nobody knows for sure.

So today, all I have is more questions than answers such as:
1. Where is the Lord's hand in all of this? Is He involved at all?
2. Should Christians get excited about this?
3. Does getting excited and perhaps later disappointed, show our lack of faith?
4. Should we as Christians believe that we don't need this sort of thing brought to light because we have enought faith anyway?
5. Should we as Christians eagerly expect for such treasures to be revealed and then rejoice when they are?
6. What is the source of these types of controversies? God? Satan? or Man?

I'll stop here since I don't have any answers or insight. Only questions.

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