How many of you believe Jesus was crucified (I most definitely do)?

Question

due to the show and rumors or so called ancient facts that whoever so called discovered...of course we all should know that he was crucified but i want to know what is ur answer

Answer 1

There is much historical evidence from outside sources such as Josephus that Jesus was indeed buried. As far as risen from the Dead, Paul gives a list of over 500 people that had seen (those people were still alive to refute it had it been a lie) the risen Jesus, plus all of the disciples were willing to die gruesome, horrible deaths solely for the reason that they had seen there risen savior.

Answer 2

There's little actual historical evidence that Jesus ever lived in the first place. The passage the person above mentions, written by Josephus, is highly suspect (why? because Josephus calls Jesus the messiah, which is rather strange for a Jew to do, and there's no mention of the passage in Josephus' texts until nearly 300 years after the fact; and even if it was written by Josephus, it was 30-40 years after Jesus' supposed death and Josephus never once claims to have seen him). As far as the 500 go, that's not useful either, as none of those 500 wrote about it. It's just one person writing that others saw something. Not exactly good historical evidence.

Now, for the sake of argument, I will assume Jesus actually did live (I am purely agnostic on the subject; I just don't know if he did or didn't). Was he crucified? Possibly, though we don't know much about him from the gospel narratives. Why would the Romans allow the Jewish people to decide who lives and who dies? They didn't do that anywhere else in the empire. And why would the Romans release a known, vicious murderer? Let's say the Jewish pharisees did somehow manage to convince the Romans to crucify Jesus - why then would the Romans act the way they are portrayed in the gospel, tearing up his clothing and acting like monsters, effectively? It's possible that the historical Jesus was a zealot and revolutionary who lead an attack on the temple at one point (the gospels certainly seem to hint at such an action). If so, then he might have been crucified, though the bible says he was hung from a tree, which is different (possibly; if you've seen Conan the Barbarian, it shows crucifixion on an actual tree).

In any case, the entire gospel story is covered in a shroud that is often impenetrable unless one looks at it, as Martin Luther said, critically as one would look at any other book.

Answer 3

According to Matthew 28, the Sadducee's made a payoff or hush mouth money, to the soldiers that were guarding the tomb. People don't make pay offs if something did not in fact occur and they wanted to cover it up!

The Roman Guards at the tomb, were no pansies and would have been executed on the spot for neglecting their duties at the tomb. There was an entire platoon of Battle hardened elite from the Roman Legion. Jesus and Christianity were a threat to the sovereignty of Rome and there could only be one King or Emperor.

The stone that covered the tomb weighed about 1 ton, was in a slot and could not just be moved by just anyone. 1st Corinthians 15:1-11

Answer 4

To the degree that one can accept the gospels and apocryphal texts as witnessing the life of a Jewish Nazarene healer/religious leader with a name like "Yeshua", then there's no reason not to assume he wasn't sentenced to crucifixtion around his (and therefore "our") thirty-second year. After all, it's not like Rome was on particularly good terms with its Jewish population to begin with, and they certainly would have tried to

Now, when it comes to supposed details of the event, like the crowd calling for Barabbas, Pontias Pilate washing his hands, the crown of thorns, etc, my suspicion is aroused and I wonder how much of these aren't simply there to tell an important symbolic story. (Not that there's any evidence to the contrary, of course, so, hey, why not?) And as a secular rationalist, I do doubt completely that The Man actually returned after having died, and even find the notion a little offensive to the millions of other ("permanent") crucifiction victims the world has seen; this is not to say that we aren't all entitled to our beliefs, of course.

Answer 5

Yes

Answer 6

Yes he probably was just like hundreds of other poor Jews. Face it the Romans had a field day murdering Jews but it don't make any of them the Messiah and I will guarantee you none of them came back for more. Like Lenny Bruce said. "Yea we killed Jesus and that's not all when he comes back we are going to kill him again." xx

Answer 7

Mel Gibson said so with his masterpiece "The Passion of the Christ " And as we all know Mel is never wrong.

Answer 8

Crucified...maybe...


Died for my sins? .....There's nothing miraculous there!
He was human and bound to die anyway, just like the rest of us. So if I tell you that I'm gonna die for your sins and commit suicide tomorrow...would you consider me the saviour?

Answer 9

Crucified? Yeah, probably. Rose from the dead? No.

Answer 10

The Bible says so. The fact is he atoned for sin if not we are all dead in our sin. Now if he died to atone for sin then why would the Bible lie as to the method of his execution?Yes he died on the cross to atone for the sins of all who accept the atonement.