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There are lots of people named Jesus in the world. Just go to Mexico.

That is assuming the inscription actually reads "Yshua." Scholars are having a tough enough time making out the characters, so there is some conjecture about that.

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You guys all are denouncing this whole thing based on the fact that "OMFG JESUS IS A COMMON NAME IT MUST NOT BE TRUE!!!"

If you had watched the Discovery program on it, you'd see the logic they have in suggesting this could be Jesus' tomb. Yes, Jesus, Mary, and Joseph were common names in Biblical times. However, the combination of two people named Mary and Joseph having a son named Jesus is much less than just simply having "Jesus". When you add more family members and the geneology of Jesus, the chance of the combination gets smaller and smaller. So when you take all of the ossuaries that were found and their percentages of names together, there's a 1 in 600 chance (Andrey Feuerverger did a statistical analysis, summarized here) that the tomb is the Jesus family tomb.

Now, I know that those odds are certainly not good, nor do I truly believe that this is Jesus' tomb. All I'm suggesting is that maybe you shouldn't immediately jump to a conclusion. This isn't some "mission to destroy Christianity!", it's archaeological and scientific progress, even if you take out the whole "It might be Jesus" mystery. Those are archaeological artifacts no matter who's they are and we can learn from them. Also, it's really unbecoming to not believe in the story at all just because you think James Cameron is some big time director trying to disprove Christianity and make a huge name for himself by doing so. All he's doing is purely suggesting that this might be Jesus's tomb.

If you watch the documentary, nowhere in it does anybody say "WE CAN FULLY CONCLUDE THAT THIS IS JESUS OF NAZARETH'S TOMB 100% AND BECAUSE OF THAT ALL OF CHRISTIANITY IS A LIE!!!!". The documentary is not meant to try and disprove the religion. Stop acting like it is.

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That's ONE problem. Another problems are the location of the tomb, Jesus' family would have, more likely, been buried in Bethlehem or Nazareth than where they found this tomb.

Perhaps the one that should raise the biggest flag is the fact that the tomb was labeled. I mean, if you were going to fake Jesus' resurrection by stealing his body from the tomb and putting it somewhere else, why would you identify his body? That's just plain lunacy.

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Well, it might be just my way of thinking, but if Jesus was a common name in those times, people probably wouldn't think too much of a tomb with a "Jesus" in it. Plus, I thought tombs were sacred to the families that they contain. It's not like everyone and their grandma would just walk in.

I feel I must reiterate that I do not truly believe this is Jesus' tomb, nor do I think there's some sort of "Christianity conspiracy" in which the Apostles stole Jesus' body and buried it somewhere else to make it look like he had resurrected. I believe Jesus rose from the dead on the third day, made appearances to the Apostles and those close to him, then ascended to heaven.

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