I was troubled when I heard that the Discovery channel would be airing a program on the the tomb of Jesus. What was most alarming to me was seeing images of a skull being removed from an ossuary bearing the name "Jesus son of Joseph." Frankly, I was nervous about watching the program, concerned that the strength the evidence would be hard for me to reject.

But while watching it, I was surprised by how accepting the program was toward the New Testament. Yet it simply rejected the New Testament's reason for why the body of Jesus was missing from the garden tomb.
Matthew 28:6
He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.

The film claiming instead that the body was missing because the disciplines had moved it.
This hypothesis presents its own set of problems which the film overlooks.
It plays the same way with the other evidence, taking only what supports their hypothesis and either twisting or ignoring that which does not support it. The filmmakers are clearly selling snake oil. The goal was to put out as convincingly as possible that the ossuary found was that of Jesus of the New Testament and ignore anything to the contrary.

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