Has anyone ever suffered worse pains then Jesus?

Question

does it matter if there is?

Answer 1

his mother must have suffered greatly seeing her son suffer. a mother feels all the pain her children go through and worse. they wish they could take their children's place and suffer for them.

Answer 2

Of course they have,many people in the history of the world have been tortured for much longer than Jesus,some political prisoners have suffered years of ongoing torture sessions. The abuse of Jesus was brutal but also over a very short duration. And if you ask many doctors or people who have suffered severe damage you will find that there is a threshold where the bodies pain responses dull,so after a point he would have been in shock and felt only a percentage of what was inflicted. Also as crucifixion goes his time of survival on the cross was very short, many lingered for much longer than he did. What is so special about the crucifixion of one man when hundreds of thousands suffered the same fate over the reign of the Roman Empire,not to mention the people who suffered similar fates in cultures that used similar execution tecniques a crucifixion? It's nothing more than a man who developed a following before his death,and through indoctrination and force that following has prospered and expanded. Hitler will still have followers in 2000 years,does that make him somehow special or just another manifestation of the human experience?

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Answer 3

I'm not sure. I mean, Jesus went through His whole life in pain, whether it was mentally or physically. I mean dang, when He was first born He had a hit out on Him. Not too many people can say that about themselves. Then after that He was constantly being threatened because of the "controversal"sermons that He would give. And then one of His own crew betrayed Him. His pain didn't just start at Calvary, it was life long. But now He runs things so I guess it was worth it.

Answer 4

Nope!
Jesus bore the sin for everyone that lived and ever lived. We only can bare and feel our own pains, we cannot feel someone Else's pain, we can sympathize with them or share the same experience but everyone hurts on their own. It matters because Jesus had to suffer because of everyone of us.

Because of sin, we are witnesses of the reality of sin and what it does. That is why God had to die to redeem us and he will come again and save us and rid the universe of sin, sinners and the devil Satan forever.

Before there was sin, no one knew really what it was it was just a bad thing. But sooner or later it would arise and Lucifer initiated it and therefore in God's infinite wisdom sin is allowed to be played out so that the character of God will be seen and that all the warning before was warranted.

Sin will never again rare its ugly head because God will not allow it again and we wont either because we see what it causes.

Even God had to pay for sin by the death of His only son, which was no ordinary death - no man or woman on earth every had that death - he died for the world everybody who died already died for themself.

Answer 5

If one reads what's recorded in the bible, there are many who suffered more than how he did. According to the bible, he suffered physical paid for less than a day. There are many people who suffere physical pain in the hand of dictators - like Saddam. There are the people of Darfu. There are others who suffer in the hands of so-called democratic states, like those suffering at Guantanamo. There are those who suffered against race and class discrimination, like Steve Biko and Ken Saro Wiwa.

I don't know how tortured was his soul. But physically, he was not worse off than many other people.

Answer 6

i think we shldnt compare the pain jesus went thru with any other human nor vice-versa. its a different level of pain and endurance. as many others were crucified, all of them suffered the same pain and again its degrees. some can endure pain, some cannot. therefore we shldnt be making comparisons. nor shld we belittle or over glamourise the pain religious figures go through. if a person go thru 40 yrs of imprisonment as compared with someone who was hanged /crucifed and suffer a short moment. which is more painful?

Answer 7

I would say anyone burned in His name is right up there in the agony department.

Crucifixion is a slow painful, death, often lasting days - you die from suffocation as your chest muscles weaken -but it is clear from the book that he died in a day. In fact Pilate when petitioned by Joseph of Arimethea for the body remarks that he is surprised that Jesus is already dead. As suffering goes, it seems Jesus got off lucky in this department.

there is no good death in the ways of capital punishment of the ancient world but compare that to feeling the flames rise as your body is slowly consumed by the flames.

Good to know your dying in a good cause and your soul is being purified eh?

Answer 8

Yes, many people have, if Jesus even existed. Dying on a cross is really bad. However, people have come up with worse tortures than that.

No, it doesn't really matter, except to the people being tortured. There are no gods. Jesus didn't come back to life.

Answer 9

Every person has suffered pains. The degree is as one perceives it, the idea of Jesus (he not technically being alive now) being in pain is a representation of the pain we feel within ourselves.

On a personal note, I think being a social outcast and suicidal from the age of 8 is pretty damn painful. So is living through your own suicide to wake up without the use of your left hand. Jesus died. I didn't.

So a return question; what is more painful, life or death?

Answer 10

Yeah, a lot of people, like all those soldiers who get their legs shorn off by shrapnel, and their scrotums shot off, and that guy who got blown apart by an RPG (he had his whole torso ripped off), and was alive for the next 4 hours.

Answer 11

Three hours nailed to a cross wearing a crown of thorns to die for our sins? His pain was far more than physical. He wept for the world.