It sure is interesting, but does it belong in net.jokes?
Jim Griffith
grif...@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP
In the original language (greek?) the word use to describe the
area where the nails were drivin in constitues the middle fore-arm to the palm.
It was mistranslated somewhere...
> This is an interesting discussion about the pain of crucifiction. The people
> who feel that there are other people who have suffered about as much physical
> pain as hanging on a cross are probably right. The main suffering and taking
> on the sins of the world was done in the Garden of Gethsemane. There Jesus
> bled from every pore because of the pain (and his sweat was as it were great
> drops of blood falling down on the ground - Luke 22:44). No other human or
> animal has been able to survive the pain that causes blood to come from every
> pore.
Not true... It's an uncommon but not necessarily dangerous thing..
(As I recall, it's blood passing into the sweat glads through the capillary
walls..)
> He did. I am sure the crucifiction was not easy, and it was an important
> part of the overall plan, but it was probably not the most painful.
Somehow, the idea of asphyxiating for 10-12 hours, slowly, sounds
REALLY painfull, esp. given that his only respite was to put all his weight
on the nail in his foot to releave tension on his diaphram.
Todd Krein
vizard@dartvax
> Somehow, the idea of asphyxiating for 10-12 hours, slowly, sounds ...
> Todd Krein
> vizard@dartvax
To regular readers of net.jokes from a talk.origins denizen, my apologies
for the above posting from our newsgroup.
To those in talk.origins and talk.religion.misc who are continuing to
cross-post this topic to net.jokes (even after their repeated requests to
quit doing it):
*** PLEASE SHOW SOME NET ETIQUETTE AND STOP CROSS-POSTING TO NET JOKES! ***
David Krause