Titanic failure

More and more it appears that scholars are trying to rewrite the history of Jesus and portray him as less than He claims -- the Son of God who was crucified on the cross for our sins and was risen on the third day so that we may all be resurrected.

Watching TV this weekend produced an interesting juxtaposition. The movie Titanic, directed by James Cameron, played on one channel while later the Inspiration Network (INSP) presented a special called "The Tomb is Empty."

What is the connection?

"The Tomb is Empty" is a rebuttal to a Discovery Channel documentary executive produced by James Cameron.

Cameron's documentary uses archaeologists who claim to have found the family burial tomb of Jesus' family and with it the ossuary that have contained the bones of Jesus Christ. The claims are made mostly on the names inscribed on many of ossuaries and the parallel those names have with the family of Jesus.

The most controversial derivative of these findings is that if Jesus' bones were buried, then the resurrection did not occur.

The INSP special is itself a scholarly approach and includes a favorite of me and Kirsten, Gary Habermas (link to Dr. Habermas's own article on the subject).

I applaud the production of this faith-building, intellectual look at an important matter of faith -- the reality of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. I am not a big fan of the Inspiration Network because of some of the pseudo-Christian ministries and church movements represented, but I thank them for this special program.

Kirsten and I would like to give our testimonies that Jesus is the Son of God and that He is Risen! He Lives! And we will all be resurrected because of His great power over death.

1 Corinthians 15:17
"And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins."