Location of Holy Grail, page 6

The Cup of Christ.

Not very likely is it.

A wooden cup that contained/contains the blood of Jesus.

The most popular tail is the grail was the cup JC drank from during the last supper and used by Joseph of Arimathea to collect his blood.

It's a story, a fabrication. Why did Joseph choose the last cup he drank from, how did he get hold of that cup, why did he collect blood in that cup and why did that cup then provide eternal life when by all accounts Jesus shed quite a bit of Haemoglobin on his journey to the cross?

This is one of those Christian stories you can dismiss on the grounds of common sense but if isn't true then where does the original story come from?

Here we get into Holy Blood/Holy Grail - Da Vinvi Code Territory. The Cup as a Vessel, the blood of Christ not actual blood but his children who where spirited away by Arimathea to England along with their mother, Mary Magdelene. These children wheer the begining of the royal bloodline of Europe and their relations continue to have a powerful influence to this day.

Now this seems more likely then a cup that provides eternal life but their is little proof any of that happened.

This story begins with the death of Jesus so we need to look at the event surrounding his death.

According to the bible Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus took care and made the arrangements of Christs body after death. Arimathea and Nicodemus where Sanhedrin , members of the Jewish council who had brought Jesus to Pilate and condemed him to death

It's in places like this the Bible gets shakey and falls apart. Now the bible assumes that Arimathea and Nicodemus where merely sympathetic followers who offered to take care of the body of Jesus as a gesture of goodwill.

This is possible of course but is it likely?

Mary and Joseph where simple peasents scraping out a living in the backwater village of Nazereth and yet Joseph was supposed to be descended from King David so you would assume he had a little bit of power and influence.

In order for Jesus to fufill one of the Messianic Prophecies he had to lie in a rich mans tomb ( the tomb of Arimathea) and so you would think that being a member of the Sanhedrin Joseph would know all about Messanic prophecy and he offered to inter Jesus body so he would be the one to fufill the prophecy.

You see this is the real S*** and giggles part. If you have a prophecy, a written list of requirements that a person must fufill then it is possible ( with the enough power and influence) to manufacture situations and tick the boxes off one by one.

I'm not going to go into here but think about it. Two members a powerful Jewish council conspiring with a peasent child from Nazereth who claims he's the King of the Jews?

Doesn't seem likely to me but if you turn it upside down it becomes a little clearer.

If you make the large assumption that Christians over time have turned Mary Joseph into humble peasents in order to appeal to the humble peasents that they wanted to control and indoctrinate into their faith and that in reality Jesus parents had much more power and influence then the bible portrays the mist clears a little.

You see in order for the story to appeal to the plebs Jesus had to come from the same social band as them. he had to be poor becuase if he came from a family of wealth and power how can the miserable peasents classes hope to identify with him?

I fear the real story of Jesus is concerned with power struggles, betrayal, backstabbing , dirty tricks and political spin between people of wealth and power but in order to make the people swallow and believe it Jesus became a Pauper.

It's the Dan Brown trick...if you intwine truth and fiction together they merge into one and the bible is a a spider web of just that, which is why it is so difficult to completely dispute.