Living in the World
Wow...aid from unusual quarters

In truly amazing developments, even the "liberal" press seems to be accepting the fact that the Jesus' Tomb story is at best a publicity stunt or at worse a hoax. The Washington Post carried a headline "Lost Tomb of Jesus Claim Called a Stunt"!!! The author of the story, Alan Cooperman, has this quote:

Scorn for the Discovery Channel’s claim to have found the burial place of Jesus, Mary Magdalene and — most explosively — their possible son came not just from Christian scholars but also from Jewish and secular experts who said their judgments were unaffected by any desire to uphold Christian orthodoxy.

Seems as if everyone has caught on, already. Read the entire story at http://www.washingtonpost.com/

The Old Grey Lady even gets into the act. In a story by Laurie Goodstein, she quotes Lawrence E.Stager, the Dorot Professor of Archeology of Israel at Harvard

This is exploiting the whole trend that caught on with ‘The Da Vinci Code. One of the problems is there are so many biblically illiterate people around the world that they don’t know what is real judicious assessment and what is what some of us in the field call ‘fantastic archaeology. [Emphasis added.]

Read the whole story at http://www.nytimes.com/

Imagine the NY Times quoting a source that says one of the problems in discerning the modern gnosticism flowing from the Da Vinci Code is Bible illiteracy! They did and they are correct. This has to be sweet music to the ears of my friend Woodrow Kroll who has been trumpeting the problem of Biblical illiteracy for years. If Harvard and the NY Times recognizes the problem, why don't Christians and the church? If you want to know more about Dr. Kroll's Bible Literacy Center and his campaign against Biblical illiteracy, go to http://www.bibleliteracycenter.com/

By the way, even though the "gig is up" on this matter, the irrepressible James White has started a blog section to deal specifically with the Jesus Tomb "facts" at http://aomin.org/index.php?catid=21 [In today's entry he sites Ben Witherington, a site we gave you yesterday.] White's apologetics are second to no one and even if this attack on the Christian faith has almost passed into the dust bin of history before it is even shown, you may want to arm yourself for the next anti-Christian follies to surface.