KENYAN church leaders yesterday expressed disgust over claims by Hollywood filmmaker James Cameron that Jesus Christ had a son whose buried remains are here on earth.Nairobi Catholic Archbishop Ndingi Mwana a’ Nzeki led the onslaught against the Canadian born writer cum movie director challenging him together with others who have such scientific evidence to forward it to the church for review.
“These people are full of imaginations, prejudice and are fools,” said an angry Ndingi. This revelation comes barely a year after another movie personality made almost similar claims. James Brown, in his movie, the Da Vinci Code, claimed that Mary Magdaline was Jesus’s wife.
On his part, ACK Provost Peter Karanja termed the alleged findings as “rubbish, misguided and only meant to achieve personal mileage’’ and called on the Christian faithful to treat it with the contempt it deserved.
He said though archeologists have a right to carry do whatever they do, their findings should solely and purely be based on the truth of the matter and not mere gimmicks.
Other biblical scholars and leading archeologists have since dismissed Cameron’s findings as ‘speculative and unscientific.’
“After Jesus Christ was crucified and buried, the disciples visited the tomb after three days and did not find his body, so the issue of his remains being found in a coffin somewhere in the world is rubbish,” Ndingi said.
The Catholic cleric was speaking at the Mombasa Cathedral where he attended a ceremony to mark 50 years of priesthood of Retired bishop John Njenga. He called on Christians countrywide to stand firm and ignore the reports.
African Independent Pentecostal Church of Africa (AIPCA) head, Samson Gaitho also dismissed the claims, saying Cameron was lying and only seeking cheap publicity. Like the rest, Gaitho also challenged the movie star to show evidence of his findings.
Said he: “We are millions of us who believe in Jesus Christ but we don’t subscribe to such imaginary lies that belittle the world’s saviour.” Provost Karanja said teachings and what is written in the scripture clearly show that Jesus died, resurrected on the third day and ascended to heaven after appearing before his disciples and other close followers.
The ACK clergy at the same time termed the findings as a direct attack on the Christian faith by forces scouting for information to question the credibility of Christianity.
Speaking to the press after delivering a Sunday service at the All-Saints Cathedral in Nairobi, the Provost called on the government to censure the screening of the film to ensure that it does not bring the followers of the church into doubt.
He at the same time asked church leaders to endeavor to teach the scriptures correctly so that their faithful are not carried away by the world’s false doctrines.
The ACK Provost wondered why archeologists would claim to have found Christ’s body when even “the body of Moses, the greatest prophet to have ever lived on earth was buried by God himself has never been found to date. Jesus Christ we know died and rose again and is seated at the right hand of God in heaven.”
ACK head Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi termed the film “a great distortion” that is aimed to question the credibility of the Bible as well as alienate the Christian community.
The revelations come barely a month before Christians all over the world mark Easter celebrations, a period when Christians mark the crucifixion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
James Cameron, the Director of ‘Titanic’ on Sunday aired the documentary on DSTV over what he claims is the most outstanding archeological findings in history.
On Tuesday last week in New York, Cameron showed to the New York press two limestone boxes believed to have held the bodies of Christ and Mary Magdalene and their son.
The film is based on 10 coffins in a tomb stumbled on by builders in Jerusalem in 1980 and first excavated by a British archeologist.
One of the 10 coffins is believed to be that of Jesus Christ.
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