something you won't see in the "news"...

[RamboPreacher]

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So, everyone probably saw the news about the "James Ossuary" - you know the one that was all hyped up with the inscription about James the brother of Jesus and it being a forgery.

Lots of press, mostly because it was "found" to be a forgery. Right? well, not really. "everyone" just left it behind as a forgery, since the IAA said it was.

vindication:
http://www.bib-arch.org/news/forgery-trial-news.asp

In the most recent embarrassment for the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), the government’s star witness, Yuval Goren, former chairman of Tel Aviv University’s institute of archaeology, was forced to admit on cross-examination that there is original ancient patina in the word “Jesus,” the last word in the inscription that reads “James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus.”
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No paleographer expert in the script of this period has found any paleographical problem with the inscription. And several scientists at the trial have undermined Goren’s scientific arguments. No other scientist has supported Goren’s arguments.

it is interesting that all the "world" (liberal left, media?) will recognize is the most anti-Christian, POV's - and this kind of significance is brushed under the rug.

Once "Exodus Decoded" was aired, nobody (media) followed up with the peer reviews, white papers, other archaeological evidences showing another POV.

"The Lost tomb of Jesus" had a couple specials on TV, but no more about the (finally), peer reviews and scholarly debating opposing POVs and evidences.

our view - we were created in the Image of God - the world proposes a lie that is random happenstance of circumstances that produced life and it evolved, as an apriori.

when will we (Christianity) stop being brain-washed.
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[RamboPreacher]

http://bib-arch.org/press-james-ossuary.asp
the press release:

WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 31, 2008) — The reputation of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) is in shambles. After a nearly four-year trial (and still counting), 75 witnesses and more than 5000 pages of testimony, what has been billed as the “forgery trial of the century” is about to collapse. The Israeli judge who will decide the case has advised the prosecution in open court to consider dropping the case. The evidence isn’t there.
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again, even with a "press release". I haven't seen any press coverage.

the media is a powerful, though-shifting, and shaping force.