2007-04-30 13:11:04 · 14 answers · asked by Mudcat 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The jesus Papers, Machael Baigent
2007-04-30 13:49:56 · update #1
Yeah, right. Christ was beaten almost to death by Romans who knew how to inflict maximum agony. He fell heavily three times trying to carry a cross that may have weighed as much as two hundred pounds, had spikes driven through His wrists and ankles, and finally had a Roman spear driven through His heart, piercing the pericardial sac so that blood and water flowed out.
He was very much deceased when He was placed in the tomb and very much alive when He rose again from the dead, three days later.
2007-04-30 13:18:39 · answer #1 · answered by Wolfeblayde 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Pretty difficult to nurse a dead man "back to health" in 300 days , let alone the three days mentioned in the New Testament.
This is especially true when you don't have the means to replace the blood volume lost through having your flesh ripped off your back during the 39 lashes with the cat -o- nine-tails (Roman flagrum) or recovering from the beating you received at the hands of the soldiers, not to mention the physical exhaustion of carrying the cross from where you were sentenced up to the hill of crucifixion, then surviving the ordeal of having long spikes hammered through your wrist and feet only to hang from the same cross while slowly asphyxiating. Even if you managed to survive all that, you would then need to last being speared in the chest, having the spear penetrate your pericardial sac.
After that, perhaps Joseph, after he wrapped you all up in 75 pounds of linens, spices and oils and sealed you in a cold, dark tomb, still managed to sneak around the posted Roman guard, move the giant stone covering the tomb by himself so he could spend the next 36 hours reviving this dead man.
Yeah, right. And you say Christians need a lot of faith in the Resurrection? At least we claim God did that, not some first century disciple being able to revive dead men by "nursing them back to health."
2007-04-30 13:44:16 · answer #2 · answered by biblechick45 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You don't really want to know the truth do you?
Jesus was in the tomb the day before the Sabbath, on the Sabbath no one is allowed to work or touch a dead body. So Jo couldn't/ wouldn't have touched Jesus on the Sabbath. Joseph was a pharisee his fellow buddies would have noticed he wasn't in the synagogue.
He had to ask Pilate for the body and Pilate asked his soldiers if Jesus was dead. And they told him he was.
Plus a tomb is unclean they would not have put Jesus in the tomb unless he was dead.
Pilate put guard around the tomb and sealed it off with a rock at the cry the pharisees who were afraid that something like that would happen.
2007-04-30 13:22:31 · answer #3 · answered by JumpingJoy 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What?! Jesus rose from the dead because He's capable of such miracles. He wasn't nursed back to health by Joseph of Arimethea. Check the Bible.
2007-04-30 13:15:10 · answer #4 · answered by Andrew S 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
He was not nursed back to health. He was three days giving the gospel to the saints from before him, in hades. Then that 3rd day he resurrected by the power of God.
2007-04-30 13:25:25 · answer #5 · answered by Child of the kingdom 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Speculation
2007-04-30 13:15:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus said has the power to lay down his life and raise it up again. On the third day, Jesus resurrected from the dead. peace be with you.
2007-04-30 13:16:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's funny, I don't recall the Bible ever mentioning that Joseph was lactating.
2007-04-30 13:22:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
37 days.
2007-04-30 13:14:42 · answer #9 · answered by Davie 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Joe didn't nurse him back to health, he was very very dead.
2007-04-30 13:14:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋