(August 10, 2017 at 10:56 am)drfuzzy Wrote:(August 10, 2017 at 10:21 am)Little Rik Wrote: Actually I don't have to prove anything because I never claimed that Jesus was resurrected although I believe that he was.
Believe is not a claim.
You on the contrary claimed something that you can not back up with any evidence but considering that you admit your mistake then fair enough.
My point was that it was highly unlikely that the Romans would have allowed the body to be taken down from the cross. There are many, many records of Roman crucifixion which clearly state that the bodies were left on the crosses to be ravaged by animals and rot. The problem with a Google search about crucifixion is that xtian sources have overwhelmed the SEO. Finding purely historical information that is not linked to religion is a challenge. To find actual historical documents about the Roman practice of crucifixion, you would need books or scholarly online journals. These were easier to find and post when I worked in a library! However, in the few minutes I have (on break) I have found one easy-to-read, decent link: http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Crucifixion
"The dead body was left up for vultures and other birds to consume. The goal of Roman crucifixion was not just to kill the criminal, but also to mutilate and dishonor the body of the condemned. In ancient tradition, an honorable death required burial; leaving a body on the cross, so as to mutilate it and prevent its burial, was a grave dishonor."
The Romans left the bodies up as a warning - a crowd control measure. Some exceptions to the rule did happen, but it's highly unlikely that a barbarian seditionist Jew would have been one of those exceptions. Can I PROVE he wasn't? Of course not. But proper study of history without religious bias has its merits.
We all believe different things and that is ok.
My believe about Jesus is in the ........ The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus Christ, by Levi H. Dowling.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/agjc/index.htm
From chapter 166 on
http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/agjc/agjc169.htm
you can see how it all happen (death and crucifixion) according Levi which drew his story from the Akashic Records.
(the Akashic records are a compendium of all human events, thoughts, words, emotions and intent ever to have occurred in the past, present or future)
