One thing the flak over The Jesus Family Tomb has done is enable us to see the importance of Thomas’s doubt being recorded in Scripture. Since the filmmakers give us a disclaimer where they say that finding Jesus’s physical bones in an ossuary would not require us to doubt the resurrection, it becomes obvious why Scripture tells us that Thomas felt the physical body of Christ after His resurrection (John 20:27).
Because Thomas doubted, we can now be sure that Christ’s resurrection was, as portrayed in Scripture, a physical resurrection. Because Thomas doubted, we can know that the film makers are wrong in proclaiming that finding Jesus’s body would not be damaging to Christianity.
