Well, yet another attempt to discredit Christianity from an Archeological front is being attempted.
I remember when this whole “Jesus Tomb” controversy arose, I was frantically googling to try and find some refutations of it, or find someone who could filter the facts through a Christian worldview for me, (so that I wouldn’t have to.)
This was, of course, the wrong attitude for me to have. As a presuppositionalist, I now realize that all facts must be filtered through SOME sort of philosophy of life, therefore, all discoveries made by non-Christians will be “spun” in such a way as to try and discredit Christ.
It is always good though, to have a great source of information on a subject. With the recent find of this “stone tablet” many folks are saying that early Christians may have “made up” the story of Christ, utilizing early “ressurecting messiah” stories to draw on for their inspiration.
Ben Witherington has a great blog site that refutes all of these sorts of Archeological “silver bullets.” It’s a great source, and I’ve learned from past experience that it’s a good starting place to get the real story of what is happening in the Archeological world.
Here is his take on the new find:
http://benwitherington.blogspot.com/2008/07/death-and-resurrection-of-messiah.html
