(February 20, 2011 at 12:20 pm)Watchman Wrote: Personaly I think Downbeatplumb may have it....
"Is it not possible that jesus just didnt die on the cross."
"If the victim is crucified with a small seat, a sedile, affixed to the uptight for minimum support in the region of the buttocks, death can be prolonged for hours and days. In fact, Josephus reports that three friends of his were being crucified in Thecoa by the Romans who, upon intervention by Josephus to Titus were removed from the crosses and with medical care one survived."
http://www.centuryone.org/crucifixion2.html
What is the reason to give resurrection story with any grain of truth such that one would need to hypothesize his failure to really die on the cross? Seems to me much more plausible that he died and rotted while his besotted followers made up a story to make themselves feel the least stupid for their miserable bisotten state.
