Speculate on Jesus 3 days of HELLISH torment !!!

[vorlon13]

Threads like this strengthen my conclusion that I'll never be an atheist.

Doesn't surprise me.  It's a gross thing to contemplate.  In fact, before this thread my thought was Jesus was not for three days and then he was again.  But now the idea has been raised, I suppose that if it's a true story god must have let the devil have at.  And presumably he'd have done his worst knowing full well his time was limited.

If you really do believe in heaven and hell and the death and resurrection, it's worth contemplating.  It certainly ups the sacrifice stakes.  It's more of an act of love and sacrifice if he went to hell for reals rather than just winking out for bit isn't it?

But frankly it ups my Christian god doesn't exist stakes.  You see even three days of the worst torment imaginable is more than any human deserves for tormenting others during life.  So the just, let alone loving, god of the NT simply can't exist.

An intermittent Jesus is an interesting idea.  I'm not sure how that would work though. Physical death of His human body, yada, yada, yada, but His immortal Soul (Jesus had a Soul, right?) would have some sort of continuity between His expiration on the cross and His resumption of His celestial duties.

Unless of course It didn't.

And if It did, well, what else is there for It to experience except vile and pernicious torments in Hell during the time period in question ??

Like I noted before, Jesus isn't going to be noshing canapes in the VIP box in the Ninth Circle of Hell in the interim, although we apparently have some christers here with their little hearts set on minimizing the notion of any particular inconvenience experienced on their behalf by Jesus.