Jesus' Tomb: Truth or Bogus?

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Just few days ago, I read a very surprising news article; a tomb in Jerusalem has been claim as Jesus and his family's tomb. Furthermore, the news became worse when I heard that a famous film director, James Cameron, who has made famous film, such as Titanic wanted to make a documentary about this discovery.

I, as a Christian, feel that this news is not good news to be heard. There are many reasons why this news is not good even to be published, even to be made into a documentary film or a book.

Firstly, one thing that makes me unhappy is the truth whether the tomb is Jesus' tomb or not haven't been proved. I found that the news only intimidated Christians about their God without ensuring the truth. It is true what the scientists and scholars said that there were many people who were named Jesus, Mary, of Judah in period when Jesus was alive.

There are no any evidences which claimed that Jesus was buried there, had married with Mary Magdalene and had a son named Judah. Until now, they can only prove that Jesus has different DNA structure with Mary, which means that they are husband and wife because they were buried in one ossuary. But the truth was still asked because Jesus and Mary are popular names and there could be a spouse with same names with a son named Judah.

Secondly, if the truth has not been confirmed, why the film director, James Cameron, still wanted to make a documentary film? I think what he did is very wrong. The documentary that he will make will give great impacts to the society, especially to Christians.

If James Cameron has made the film very similar with he tells about facts, many people will get the effects of the film. They will think that Christians has made faults about the God. Consequently, they will say that Christian is not a religion that supposes to be followed. For Christian, especially for those who have weak faith, they will think that the have go to wrong religion and they will want to quit and move to other religions.

In Conclusion, this news supposed to be checked the truth; people or mass media supposed to not publish it before the truth has been proven. Wrong information can give great impacts to the society. Therefore, before they are going to publish the information, or even make a documentary, please consider to the truth and also think about the effects which will be caused, whether it will damage one or more sides or not.


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Indonesia Tried to Stop Mud Volcano

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Natural disasters seem repeatedly coming to my home country, Indonesia. After earthquake and Tsunami which beat Aceh, earthquake continuously happened in many parts of Indonesia. Not just that, flood, storm, volcano, even mud volcano have been troubles for Indonesia.

This disaster came when one of the Indonesian oil companies tried to drill for finding the oil source. When the drill had come to certain depth, suddenly it broke the underground pipe of gas. As a result, the gas pushed mud came out to the ground and caused flood of mud in the area of the drilling point.

Mud volcano in Sidoarjo, East Java, has happened since last June and has forced more than 15,000 people to displace to other places. Furthermore, the flood has caused many rice field submerged, and many infrastructures broken. The transportation way, both the road and the railway, to the main city of East Java, Surabaya, can not be crossed anymore. Thus, many financial lost have been caused during this disaster.

Many alternative ways have been tried by Indonesia Government, but all the ways were failed. Before I left Indonesia for Singapore, I heard that a Russian Scientist offered his planned to the committee of mud volcano prevention to help Indonesia stopping the mud volcano. It was very unfortunate that I did not know the continuation because I had already left Indonesia when the result came out.

I just know this latest news when I am going to write this blog. The committee tried to do the concrete balls method. They put some concrete balls to the centre of the mud volcano. They hoped the concrete balls can reduce the volume of mud which goes out.

As an Indonesian, I really hope the disaster will stop soon. There is already a lot of people have become victims. I very regreted that the government could not react fast to help stopping the mud volcano. When the failure in drilling for oil happened, Indonesian government was very slow to take reaction to stop it.

As a result, now the mud volcano produces about 50 swimming pools capacities of mud every day and it will be more difficult to stop. Not just that, in handling of the victims, the government seems to be so slow. They were only given small amount of compensation instead the victims must find new home to live. I feel very pity to hear that the victims which most of them are poor people have to find new home with limited fund.

I hope, with this new way, this disaster will be stopped soon. A lot of people have suffered because of it. A lot of financial lost has also been caused. In fact, the money which has been use to stop the disaster can be alternatively used to pay all Indonesia's loans and build Indonesia to be a better country.