CNN Finding Jesus Faith Fact Forgery December 25, 2015 22:28:00
But 300 years have passed. jerusalem is now a very different place. >> the question is how could helena find it? well, it really takes us back to the year 135 a.d. when the emperor, hadrian, builds a pagan temple over the site and ends up marking for all posterity the place of his death. >> the year before helena's son, the emperor constantine, ordered the temple be torn down. >> it wasn't his policy to destroy all of them, but that temple was the very antithesis of what christians thought christ was about. >> the account of what happened next is recorded in a later church history.