Jay GW

Would it matter to anyone if an archeological dig turned up proof there was no historical Jesus?
Why would it matter?

Vampyroteuthis

No, cause it would just have been planted by satan.

Susan2

Of course. It would matter to those in the business of selling Jesus. It would matter to those who are in the business of refuting Jesus. Big stakes.

Yellum Notnef

It wouldn't matter at all since believers would just shift the faith into 3rd gear and ignore it just like everything else in reality that doesn't jive with their bible.

aa5874

Once Jesus Christ did not exist then there would be nothing to dig up.

And if Jesus Christ did exist, the archaeologists may have to begin to "dig up" the clouds, according to Acts, that was the last place where he was seen alive.

Doug Shaver

Are you asking whether it would change anyone's mind?

It would change some people's minds. Other people would just deny that whatever got dug up actually proved there was no historical Jesus.

Are you asking whether the discovery would be consequential in a more general sense? Sure. Scientists spent most of the 20th century finding proof of evolution. We've all seen how much that mattered.

fta

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir1-A209boQ :devil1:

Roger Pearse

Certainly; it would demonstrate that Christianity was untrue.

All the best,

Roger Pearse

Steven Avery

Hi Folks,

To a large extent, that was the purpose of the massive probability finagling around the recent James Tabor ossuary brouhaha - to try to demonstrate a tomb for Jesus, and thereby falsify Christianity, or at least cast a cloud of archaeological doubt.

Tabor is of "Abrahamic faith", and in practice it seems like he is something like an ebionite in belief. If I am representing his position properly (and I have seen his book on "Abrahamic faith" as originally written years back, dunno if it has any changes) then a falsification of the resurrection could be, to him, good news. Thus the recent ossuary shindig was the closest we have had to the OP.

Shalom,
Steven Avery

Yellum Notnef

Heh. Go figure. I expected much more of a fuss than that.