Hobby Lobby Owners, the Greens, may be facing some real questions about their legal dealings in biblical artifacts.

The story starts with the idea Christians needed their own bible museum in Washington, DC. But, the story doesn't end there. I could not care less if there is a bible museum in Washington, DC. This is not about hate or discrimination, it is about a wealthy family that may be facing real problems with their chosen hobby.

September 4, 2015
By Noah Charney

...Now, (click here) though, the Good Book is coming to town in a big way. The Museum of the Bible — backed by the evangelical owners of the craft store Hobby Lobby, who famously took their objections to contraception and Obamacare to the Supreme Court — is set to open in 2017, just off the Mall. The proximity of the museum to the world-class Smithsonian and the Capitol has raised eyebrows. How will it fit in among the venerable institutions lining the Mall? How will it function ...

...Some academics and curators also worry about the origins of its collection — the more than 40,000 biblical artifacts were amassed in a remarkably short time by Hobby Lobby President Steve Green....

Green admits there is doubt about his collection of artifacts and where they came from. If they are coming from Iraq such as this tablet, there were thieves that raided the museums shortly after the USA invasion.

October 29, 2015
By Brianna Bailey

Oklahoma City — Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. (click here) says it is cooperating with a federal investigation involving ancient clay tablets from Iraq for the planned Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C.

The Oklahoma City-based company confirmed there was an ongoing investigation after online news outlet The Daily Beast published an article Tuesday about an alleged claim surrounding the clay tablets. The article was written by Bible scholars Candida Moss, professor of New Testament and early Christianity at the University of Notre Dame, and Joel Baden, professor of Hebrew Bible at Yale University.

“Hobby Lobby is cooperating with the investigation related to certain biblical artifacts,” Hobby Lobby said in a statement. “The Museum of the Bible is a separate not-for-profit entity made possible, in part, by the generous charitable contributions of the Green family.”

According to the Daily Beast story, Hobby Lobby CEO Steve Green said in an interview that the Green family’s extensive collection of biblical artifacts may include items of dubious provenance. Moss and Baden have a forthcoming article to be published in the Atlantic on the federal investigation that includes the interview with Green.

If he admits there are issues with the artifacts, who the heck is he willingly dealing with?

There is a real issue and where any stolen artifacts should be stored. Currently there is war. Where is anyone going to find a safe place to keep such artifacts? Additionally, any stolen artifacts could actually serve as a measure of protection considering how Daesh is willing to destroy anything in it's path.