Finding Jesus / CNN

[Jd34]

http://www.cnn.com/videos/living/2015/02/24/finding-jesus-premieres-sunday-night-trailer.cnn

Advertised to air Sunday. I will be real curious to see how this will be presented comming from such a very liberal news network as CNN.

[New Creation]

Well, the attention grabber is "Faith... Fact... Forgery" It's the forgery part that has me raising my eyebrow. I feel that they are going to use some "facts" to expose some kind of "forgery" to discredit Christians. The reason I think this is that in the preview they say he didn't vanish without a trace and doesn't the gospels say that His body was missing from the tomb? So I think they are going to get some secular, athiest, historians and geologists and the like to try and discredit christianity, even subtly.

I saw a series do the same thing on netflix. It was in the faith/spirituality section and it had something to do with researching what the  ark of the covenant was and they subtly discredited christianity every chance they got. I can't remember the name of the series but I'll post it on here next time I get on netflix.

[Buster D Body Crab]

I'll be there. I can see why they'd include forgery in the list of examining the artifacts for evidence. There is forgery in the field of archeology concerning human origins. Remember the Piltdown man reports? There's forgery in Christian history too. I'd hope this would be a balanced report. We'll see.

[Jd34]

I'll be there. I can see why they'd include forgery in the list of examining the artifacts for evidence. There is forgery in the field of archeology concerning human origins. Remember the Piltdown man reports? There's forgery in Christian history too. I'd hope this would be a balanced report. We'll see.

Well it was pretty clear that they took a solid stance on claiming that the shroud of Turin is a forgery. They based it all on carbon dating that showed the shroud to date back to medieval times- not old enough to be that of Christ's...They even provided info on how it could have been faked back then... ....

Its not too surprising that they didn't talk about the fire that the shroud went through. On December 4, 1532 The chapel at Chambery, France, where the shroud was housed, caught fire which raged around the silver reliquary where the shroud was kept. The heat was so intense that some of the silver melted and dripped onto the folded shroud. The shroud was rescued from the fire and doused with water but the burn holes are still visible.

It has been shown that intense heat will skew carbon dating.. hmm??? 

Now I don't have much of a passion about if  the shroud was Jesus's or not. But it would be nice for a tv show like that to give all the information known about the shroud.. But what can one say? It is TV. And TV is good about leading you to believe in a certain direction..

Anyway, didn't know this was going to be a cnn series.. 

[Buster D Body Crab]

I intended to watch this but it didn't work out that way. I'm hoping it will be rebroadcast On Demand.
Only after reading what you said about their treatment of the shroud did I remember CNN's treatment of Benjamin Watson.
http://youtu.be/NEnWg5Vg0T8

I would doubt they'll be fair and impartial in finding Jesus. Especially if they went with the old claims about carbon dating the shroud. Those pieces that were permitted to be cut from the shroud for the carbon dating were from the corners and areas that would have been handled the most. Thereby skewing the carbon dating.
There is another documentary on the shroud that was on NatGeo I think it was. Their report made the shroud more believable as the burial linen of Jesus.