Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?
Have you ever wondered if Jesus really rose from the dead? Many atheists target this as their main source of disbelief of Jesus. Muslims suggest that he didn’t die, but fled to India. Some say that the Roman soldiers, having a faulty knowledge of human anatomy, only assumed that they had killed Jesus. Still others say that he was drugged to appear dead, and then was later awoken by the tomb’s cool air. They back this up with Mark 15:36, where he was given a sponge of liquid. Plus, in Mark 15:44, Pilate is surprised at how fast Jesus died. Fortunately, with scripture, some logic, and common sense, we can establish four things. Jesus was really killed, he was really buried and found absent from the tomb, he …show more content…
Crucifixion was designed to kill someone effectively, but not first without maximum suffering. Jesus was first whipped with a leather whip. Roman whips had metal balls woven into them that would tear and wound the flesh. The whips also had sharp pieces of bone put attached to them. These beatings were so terrible that people were known to die before they could even be crucified. Next, Jesus was forced to carry his cross to the crucifixion site, where Roman soldiers drove nails through his wrists. Oftentimes, we think that the nails were driven through his hands, but the wrists were considered part of the hands in that time. The pain of this was so agonizing that the word “excruciating” had to be invented to describe it. It comes from the Latin word excruciatus, which means “Out of the cross”. From there Jesus would have to push himself up in order to breathe. There was no way the victims of the cross could keep this up forever, and they would eventually die of exhaustion. Even if Jesus had somehow survived this all, a Roman soldier pierced Jesus’ side with a spear in John 19:34. The spear would have gone through his heart, and would have killed him once and for all. Alternately, Roman soldiers would pay with their own lives if they let someone live. There is no question that Jesus died that
Have you ever wondered if Jesus really rose from the dead? Many atheists target this as their main source of disbelief of Jesus. Muslims suggest that he didn’t die, but fled to India. Some say that the Roman soldiers, having a faulty knowledge of human anatomy, only assumed that they had killed Jesus. Still others say that he was drugged to appear dead, and then was later awoken by the tomb’s cool air. They back this up with Mark 15:36, where he was given a sponge of liquid. Plus, in Mark 15:44, Pilate is surprised at how fast Jesus died. Fortunately, with scripture, some logic, and common sense, we can establish four things. Jesus was really killed, he was really buried and found absent from the tomb, he …show more content…
Crucifixion was designed to kill someone effectively, but not first without maximum suffering. Jesus was first whipped with a leather whip. Roman whips had metal balls woven into them that would tear and wound the flesh. The whips also had sharp pieces of bone put attached to them. These beatings were so terrible that people were known to die before they could even be crucified. Next, Jesus was forced to carry his cross to the crucifixion site, where Roman soldiers drove nails through his wrists. Oftentimes, we think that the nails were driven through his hands, but the wrists were considered part of the hands in that time. The pain of this was so agonizing that the word “excruciating” had to be invented to describe it. It comes from the Latin word excruciatus, which means “Out of the cross”. From there Jesus would have to push himself up in order to breathe. There was no way the victims of the cross could keep this up forever, and they would eventually die of exhaustion. Even if Jesus had somehow survived this all, a Roman soldier pierced Jesus’ side with a spear in John 19:34. The spear would have gone through his heart, and would have killed him once and for all. Alternately, Roman soldiers would pay with their own lives if they let someone live. There is no question that Jesus died that