Drink Up!

by Dr. Darren Weissman

Visualize a constantly flowing stream. Now think about a retention pond filled with stagnant water. Look at the pathogenic life beginning to form. Now relate those two pictures to your body. Which would you choose?

The more water you drink, the stronger the flow of your internal stream, making it difficult for harmful organisms and disease to take root in your system. Water plays a role in nearly every bodily function—from regulating temperature and cushioning joints to bringing oxygen to cells and removing waste. According to the late Dr. F. Batmanghelidj, a medical doctor and the author of Your Body’s Many Cries for Water ( www.watercure.com), water is an essential component of Optimal Health.

Dr. Batmanghelidj states, “From the new perspective of my 22 years of clinical research into molecular physiology of dehydration…I can safely say the 60 million Americans with hypertension, the 110 million with chronic pains, the 15 million with diabetes, the 17 million with asthma, the 50 million with allergies…all waited to get thirsty. Had they realized water is a natural antihistamine and a more effective diuretic, these people would have been saved the agony of their health problems.”

Have the burial boxes of Jesus and Mary Magdelene been found?

by Miceal Ledwith

A controversial documentary on the Discovery Channel this month, “The Lost Tomb of Jesus,” claimed that two ancient stone burial boxes displayed during a press conference in New York on February 26 th may have contained the bones of Jesus of Nazareth and his wife Mary Magdalene.

Let’s assess the claims of the documentary. It is now almost 27 years since these ten bone boxes or “ossuaries” were discovered at East Talpiot, three miles south of the old city of Jerusalem. The archeologists assessed the ossuaries as having little importance. One of the ossuaries disappeared early on and the nine that remained were stored in the Rockefeller Museum in East Jerusalem. More than 900 such ossuaries have been found in the vicinity of Jerusalem.

I know of five other tombs in Kashmir, Pakistan, Tibet, England, and in northern Israel in Galilee that claim, probably with greater reason than Talpiot, to be the last resting place of Jesus. I noted in Professor James Tabor’s new book The Jesus Dynasty that while he fully discussed the Talpiot Tomb, he also made a very convincing case for the tomb of Jesus being, not at Jerusalem at all, but in Galilee, outside the city of Tsfar.