Reply #30: It started with the discovery of the ossuaries. [View All]

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The probability study that Christians find so controversial was done to ask a pretty straightforward question about the likelihood of a certain set of names cropping up together in the same tomb in Jerusalem, contemporaneous with the Biblical Jesus. Of course, the notion that the Talpiot tomb might contain the remains of Jesus is completely ridiculous compared to the idea that he rose from the dead, talked to a few people, then went bodily up to heaven.