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What would be the harm is someone did think the place had some spiritual value?
What spiritual value. It would be a house and that is it. Maybe later a prostitute lived there, would it still be of spiritual value, or a Pharisee who hated Christ, etc. It is a house.
What spiritual value. It would be a house and that is it. Maybe later a prostitute lived there, would it still be of spiritual value, or a Pharisee who hated Christ, etc. It is a house.
I believe certain places can have "spiritual value" or some kind of energy. People travel to certain areas to experience this.
I am always interested in any indications that Nazareth existed as a town in the first century. Where there was one house, there are now two. But a house dug into a hillside doesn't sound very townlike, The tradition that it is where Jesus lived is a neat coincidence when the structure turn out to be of the right date, but I wouldn't be surprised that there all sorts of structures that are claimed as Jesus' house'.
I don't reject the idea as I am pretty sure that Jesus really existed and he for sure lived somewhere. It was just that there are doubts about Nazareth. with one farmhouse and hillside dug -out, I wonder whether it is any more probable than before?
re:" I wonder whether it is any more probable before"
You know if we read the headlines one could get the impression that theyfound the actual home. And that is a big stretch. But as far as probability in my opinion it's logical to assume that what they found was a place where Jesus most probably lived a bit of his daily life.
As far as what was found in the Nazareth digs it suggested that the town was deemed wealthier and larger than often portrayed. But that seems to be at odds with what Nazareth was back in the 1st really a small village with a peasant Jewish cast and light years away from the way it looks now.
Archaeology in Nazareth has to be challenging because of all its 'layers' of life through the centuries and making sense of all that can't be easy.
Saint Adomnan said the site was venerated as Jesus's House in the year
670, and that there was a Byzantine church built over it.
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