A similar phenomenon has happened with the nails, which number up to thirty. As for the Shroud of Turin, the burial shroud that the body of Jesus was said to have been wrapped in, it has been revealed to be a medieval counterfeit. The Shroud has also been the subject of an examination from one of the latest techniques incorporated into the historical research of Jesus: DNA analysis. In , a study found that the canvas contains genetic material from multiple people of different ethnic backgrounds , from Western Europe to the Near East, Arabia and India.
Naturally, there are no skeletal remains for a DNA analysis that can be directly attributed to Jesus , which would be incompatible with the Christian belief in his resurrection. According to tradition, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem houses the place of burial, discovered and preserved by the Emperor Constantine in the fourth century.
Although it is impossible to determine if that was the true tomb of Jesus, a study published last June has dated the construction to the fourth century , corroborating the historical data. If John and Jesus were relatives, the comparative analysis of both remains could bring us closer to the very genes of Christ.
Perhaps this goal is unattainable: for the moment, the DNA extracted from the remains attributed to John the Baptist actually showed modern contamination. Click Enter. Login Profile.
Es En. Pliny contributes the information that, where he was governor in northern Turkey, Christians worshipped Christ as a god. Strikingly, there was never any debate in the ancient world about whether Jesus of Nazareth was a historical figure.
In the earliest literature of the Jewish Rabbis, Jesus was denounced as the illegitimate child of Mary and a sorcerer. Among pagans, the satirist Lucian and philosopher Celsus dismissed Jesus as a scoundrel, but we know of no one in the ancient world who questioned whether Jesus lived. In a recent book, the French philosopher Michel Onfray talks of Jesus as a mere hypothesis, his existence as an idea rather than as a historical figure. About 10 years ago, The Jesus Project was set up in the US; one of its main questions for discussion was that of whether or not Jesus existed.
Some authors have even argued that Jesus of Nazareth was doubly non-existent, contending that both Jesus and Nazareth are Christian inventions. It is worth noting, though, that the two mainstream historians who have written most against these hypersceptical arguments are atheists: Maurice Casey formerly of Nottingham University and Bart Ehrman University of North Carolina.
Part of the popular confusion around the historicity of Jesus may be caused by peculiar archaeological arguments raised in relation to him. That in no way proves the historicity of the resurrection.
One key argument in the movie comes from the New Testament writing known as First Corinthians, written by the Apostle Paul to a group of Christians in Corinth to address controversies that had arisen in their community. In 1 Corinthians , Paul gives a list of people to whom the risen Jesus appeared. These witnesses to the resurrected Jesus include the Apostle Peter, James the brother of Jesus, and, most intriguingly, a group of more than people at the same time.
This passage helps to demonstrate that the belief that Jesus was raised from the dead originated extremely early in the history of Christianity.
For example, Bart Ehrman , a prominent New Testament scholar who is outspoken about his agnosticism, states :. This does not, however, in any way prove that Jesus was resurrected. It is not unusual for people to see loved ones who have died: In a study of nearly 20, people, 13 percent reported seeing the dead. There are a range of explanations for this phenomenon, running the gamut from the physical and emotional exhaustion caused by the death of a loved one all the way to the belief that some aspects of human personality are capable of surviving bodily death.
In other words, the sightings of the risen Jesus are not nearly as unique as Strobel would suggest. First of all, biblical scholars have no idea what event Paul is referring to here. This is of absolute importance and it must be kept in mind — as a peculiarity of Islam — that this religion regulates — with very detailed positive precepts — every manifestation of the life of believers, even in those areas that might appear to be the farthest from the field of religion, according to the parameters of secularism.
Giorgio Vercellin recalled that Westerners have always pretended not to see this fact, for contingent interests, first of colonial expansion — in trying to impose their own laws and exploit territories — and then of attempted internal assimilation cancellation of national and fideistic individuality , and. It is not by chance that the pages on Muhammad and his immediate successors follow the much more copious pages describing the Persians — i.
Instead, it is contemporary and present. Muslims are men and women of faith, and for them religion is also pure lawfulness. Islam is not just a confession, but a culture, a multicontinental and cross-sectoral civilisation, a way of life in which the relationship with the divinity is spiritual and temporal at the same time.
The history of Western thought, from the age of Enlightenment to the present day, is marked by the conflict between faith and science: there is a constant loss of ground of the areas of influence of religion in favour of the side hegemonised by technology. By this we mean secularisation, rationalisation, relativism, etc. Tout court , it is the right to atheism, which Muslim jurisprudence — which, as seen above, is identified with faith — does not admit and which the West tries to impose with the violence of American weapons and with the soppy and cloying European do-goodism and political correctness.
Whatever some well-meaning sociologists may say, Islam does not distinguish between religion and politics, between confession and law. The trend that is being strengthened in the Islamic world consists in a reaffirmation of both regulations and general Shariah principles, which have been established either through legislation or as a practice in Muslim and Islamic countries, i.
In each of them the institutional presence of other faiths is rarely allowed — and this from a purely legal viewpoint. The illusion with which weak-minded or mean-minded people to say the least and others pursue the so-called multiculturalism has no basis in the experience and beliefs of the other party. Any person, whether Christian, Muslim or Jewish, who puts forward his or her own viewpoint — either in writing or in a speech, which subsumes his or her thinking — clearly believes it to be right and true, and does not accept — on principle — a contrary or different opinion.
It is practically the parallel of a Westerner who, for various reasons, moves to a Muslim country and ex abrupto denies his way of thinking and living. This shows that it is not the West that tolerates the Muslim presence in Europe, but the opposite. This is proved by the fact that the criminal horrors and atrocities we witnessed on November 13, were carried out by an infinitesimal percentage of Muslims present on our continent — on top of it, European citizens and not emigrants, i.
It is not for me to explain why they have done so. A recent unprecedented alliance between Muslims and Evangelicals takes on added significance in a world in which human rights are on the defensive, religious groups tend to forge political as well as ideational partnerships, and the role of the clergy in multiple Muslim-majority countries has come under scrutiny.
The alliance potentially could create a platform for voices in the Muslim world, particularly the Middle East, in which significant segments of the youth who constitute a majority of the population, increasingly reject state-controlled, ritualistic forms of religion and distrust clerics subservient to the government. It could also offer a middle ground on which elements of the secular centre-right and centre-left could meet based on shared faith-based values in deeply polarised parts of the world, particularly in the West.
Al-Ourimi reasoned further that genuine inclusivity was precluded in much of the Middle East because most Arab constitutions assume that the state has a religion. Al-Oumiri points to a series of lofty, lovey-dovey inter-faith statements issued in the past decade by different combinations of Arab Muslim and non-Muslim clerics, religious and secular intellectuals, and politicians. The statements constituted attempts by Muslim religious authorities and autocratic governments to keep ahead of the curb of youth aspirations and project themselves as voices of moderation by emphasizing religious freedom, religious pluralism, and inclusive citizenship irrespective of religious belief.
Referring to the Al Azhar statement, Ms. Al-Oumiri highlighted the fact that the statement was issued in the wake of popular revolts that in toppled the leaders of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen. The manoeuvres did not roll back what Ms. The polls and research suggest that youth are increasingly sceptical towards religious and worldly authority.
They aspire to more individual, more spiritual experiences of religion. Leaders of the group say that they intend to tackle other outdated, intolerant, or supremacist concepts such as the dhimmi or People of the Book, and slavey that remain reference points even if large numbers of Muslims do not heed them in their daily life, as well as eventually blasphemy and apostasy.
Nahdlatul Ulama, despite its tangible adherence to principles of democracy, human rights, and tolerance, has yet to clearly distinguish itself from autocratic religious soft power rivals when it comes to its shared rejection of political Islam and identity politics.
In other words, how it handles Islamophobia is likely to be a litmus test for Nahdlatul Ulama as well as its alliance with the Evangelicals.
Germany, where ultra-nationalist supremacists, despite recent electoral setbacks for the Alternative for Germany AfD , have infiltrated the security and armed forces, spotlights the importance of creating a religious and political centre that is driven as much by shared values as it is by interests. Security services recorded more than 1, cases of suspected far-right extremism among soldiers, police officers and intelligence agents in recent years. Kadyrov is widely viewed as an associate of President Vladimir Putin and maintains close ties to Middle Eastern autocrats.
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