(December 21, 2016 at 2:53 am)robvalue Wrote: Establishing that a qualified doctor issued a time of death for Jesus is going to be problematic. Even if they did, so what? It's just an arbitrary set of criteria they would use. No one has the authority to declare someone "impossible to come back to life".
Considering there's not even any physical evidence that he existed at all, his medical records will probably be found wanting.
Notice that even at the time of writing the bible, there was obviously some scepticism surrounding whether Jesus was actually dead following the crucifiction. This is clear because one of the soldiers suddenly stabbed him to make sure he was dead in a later rendition of the story (John I believe); a detail missing from earlier accounts.
You make a very valid point, but my presumption going into this is that the Romans knew what they were doing and that Jesus did, in fact, die physically on the cross. Of course, crucifixion was not decapitation, and so, it was not impossible that someone could survive the process.
