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What you're describing is called Swoon Theory [1]. Romans knew how to kill people. Really. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swoon_hypothesis https://en.wikipe
by danjc 9y ago
What you're describing is called Swoon Theory [1]. Romans knew how to kill people. Really.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swoon_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swoon_hypothesis
- CamperBob2 9y agoSo do we, but look at how many death-penalty executions get horribly botched.
- yequalsx 9y agoHow many of these botched death-penalty executions you speak of resulted in the person living and living in such a way that the authorities did not know the person was alive?
- combatentropy 9y agoArguments against the Swoon Theory: 1. If a Roman soldier let a capital prisoner escape, including by bungling a crucifixion, that soldier would be killed. 2. The Roman soldier didn't break Jesus's legs. So he was sure he was dead. 3. The eyewitness account says that blood and water flowed from Jesus's pierced heart, which means collapse of the lungs and death by suffocation. 4. The body was wound in sheets. 5. The turnabout in behavior by his disciples. Before, they were in hiding. Afterward, they died for saying that Jesus rose from the dead. 6. There were Roman guards at the tomb, again who would be put to death if they let the body be stolen. 7. How would a half-dead person move the boulder of the tomb? --- The Handbook of Christian Apologetics, by Peter Kreeft and Ronald K. Tacelli The Swoon Theory eventually dovetails into a theory of conspiracy, by the disciples and authors of the texts in the Bible. This theory also is addressed by that book and others. For the sake of not getting too far off topic, I leave it to anyone to read in their own time. Besides, as others have pointed out, the resurrection that this article is about is the resurrection of all dead at the end of the age.
- snow_mac 9y agoThe trouble is see John 19:34
- ghostbrainalpha 9y ago> 3. The eyewitness account says .... I don't think it is fair to call anything in the Bible an "eyewitness account".
- shakna 9y agoMark was written and distributed within living memory of the event, in a culture where dissenters commonly destroyed incorrect texts. The eyewitness accounts are more likely to be reliable than the other historical documents of that age we have.
- srean 9y agoThanks for the reference, I did not know this.