INTRODUCTION

The movie the Lost Tomb of Jesus will have a big impact. And there is an associated book Jesus Family Tomb.

Here is a central networking hub to access many resources.

People will be talking about this so here is how you can get informed. There is more than enough material here for meaningful conversations.

Maybe you will be called upon to prepare a teaching. Or maybe you know Bible teachers or preachers that can use these links.

Please serve the body of Christ by sending them the address (URL) of this blog. Just select, copy and paste the link that is in your browser now that is http://losttombresponseshub.blogspot.com or use this shorter version www.TombResponses.org that will redirect the person here too.

There are some parts of this movie that are like Da Vinci Code. Here are links to a biblical response to Da Vinci Code http://www.davincihub.net/

Both of these movies directly and indirectly attack Biblical Christianity.

What the movie implies contradicts what the Bible teaches, Jesus rose from the dead bodily. Paul declares that His resurrection is pivotal for our hope of salvation in First Corinthians 15.

What follows are lists of the Cardinal Doctrines of Christianity. Note that bodily resurrection is always essential. http://www.religioustolerance.org/chrcarddoc.htm

This movie could start conversations with your coworkers, classmates or relatives.

Maybe after exploring this blog you will want to go to these other blog hubs.

Apologetics Hub http://apologeticshub.blogspot.com/

DVC Questions Hub http://dvcquestionshub.blogspot.com/

Bible Study Hub http://biblestudyhub.blogspot.com/

Gospel Hub http://gospelhub.blogspot.com/

Evangelism Hub http://evangelismhub.blogspot.com/

BOOK MARKS

What you find on this blog are dozens of links. These relate mostly to the movie Lost Tomb of Jesus. And there are related links.

My research and preparation gives you a starting point. From here you can explore both wide and deep.

Along the way you will discover web pages that stand out to you. You can book mark those on your computer.

And/or you can use a free social book marking service.

One advantage of a book marking service is that many keep a copy of that page on their server. I know that Furl keeps a copy of the page at the moment I saved it. Then if the web page is moved or deleted I can still read my archive copy. This is especially useful for online articles.

At these services you can choose public or private. The private ones you can come back to later for your further investigation. The public ones you can share with your friends and associates.

This blog was last revised on March 4, 2007. That is the day the movie was shown. So in the days and weeks that follow the sites from these links will add more materials. Also many others not listed here will add material. Pray for God to guide me in keeping this current.

Here are articles about social book marking

http://tinyurl.com/2pkvvr

http://www.h3rald.com/articles/view/social-bookmarking-services

Here are some of the major social book marking services.

Delicious http://del.icio.us/

Digg http://www.digg.com/

Magnolia http://ma.gnolia.com/

Furl http://furl.net/

Clipmarks http://clipmarks.com

Stumble Upon http://www.stumbleupon.com/

Yahoo Bookmarks http://beta.bookmarks.yahoo.com/pages/all

Hundreds of others http://tinyurl.com/26bmq5

MOVIE AND BOOK

Official Movie Site

There is a huge amount of material here. If you want to fully understand the many facets of this issue then investigate here.

http://www.jesusfamilytomb.com/

Discovery Channel

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/tomb/tomb.html

The book Jesus Family Tomb

http://tinyurl.com/2j5jm5

Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Tomb_of_Jesus

James Ossuary also mentioned

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ossuary

SECULAR MEDIA

Here are some secular media articles. And you can put the key words into any search engine. Then click News button to find much more.

There are online services and blogs that track such news stories as they unfolds. May God lead me to find and include a few of the best ones here soon. But the focus of this blog is to offer a full range of the biblical responses.

Newsweek

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17328478/site/newsweek/

and

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17388557/site/newsweek/

NBC in DC

http://www.nbc4.com/news/11115399/detail.html

CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/02/26/jesus.sburial.ap/index.html

National Geographic

http://tinyurl.com/236u5q

New York Times

http://tinyurl.com/2xvjrp

CNS News

http://tinyurl.com/36djla

Jerusalem Post

http://tinyurl.com/22wc7h

Dallas Morning News

http://tinyurl.com/2otuqp

BIBLICAL RESPONSE

Jesus Family Tomb
book by Rene Lopez

http://scriptureunlocked.com/bookstore/JesusFamilyTomb.htm

Darrell Bock’s Blog entry

http://dev.bible.org/bock/node/106

Probe Ministries – Kerby Anderson

http://www.probe.org/commentaries/tales-from-the-crypt-do-we-have-the-bones-of-jesus.html

Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry

Careful treatment with discussion questions

http://www.carm.org/evidence/Jesus_tomb.htm

Theopedia with MP3 audio

http://www.theopedia.com/Family_Tomb_of_Jesus_story

Got Questions

http://www.gotquestions.org/Jesus-family-tomb.html

Biblical Foundations

http://www.biblicalfoundations.org/?p=92

BPNews

http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=25053

Christianity Today

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/article_print.html?id=41338

Alpha and Omega Ministries

http://www.aomin.org/index.php?itemid=1790

Apologetics Index

http://www.apologeticsindex.org/483-lost-tomb-of-jesus

Stand to Reason Blog see February 28, 2007 entry

http://www.str.org/site/PageServer?pagename=blog_a

Ankerberg

http://www.ankerberg.com/Articles/historical-Jesus/the-Jesus-family-tomb/the-Jesus-family-tomb-witherington-response.htm

Ben Witherington Blog

http://benwitherington.blogspot.com/2007/02/jesus-tomb-titanic-talpiot-tomb-theory.html

John Piper

http://tinyurl.com/2efute

Religious Tolerance

http://www.religioustolerance.org/chrjebody4.htm

MORE

Soon there will be MUCH more material online.

Various ministry leaders will see the movie, read the book and prepare a response. Use the following blog to network to various apologetic sites. http://apologeticshub.blogspot.com/

Some of them will create stand-alone websites as a complete response.

Jesus Family Tomb brings up Mary Magdalene just like Da Vinci Code.

You can get a Biblical response as part of http://www.davincihub.net/Websites.html

FORUMS AND PRAYER REQUEST

Read the biblical responses in this blog. Then enter into discussion on the forums.

This is the official forum for the movie.

http://www.jesusfamilytomb.com/forum/

Here are links to Christian forums.

http://christianforumshub.blogspot.com/

Read how others understand this complex matter. God can use you to bring salt and light to the conversations. You can start new topics and help to bring clarity to the issues. Maybe you will point others to this blog. That will give them easy access to an abundance of online resources.

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Prayer Requests

Please pray for God to use this blog and the related links to teach and equip many Christians.

May many come to better understand the issues raised by the movie as well as the best responses.

May the Holy Spirit lead people into the many truths contained in the Bible.

May believers learn how to better defend the faith.

ALL glory to God in the name of Jesus.

Amen!