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Jesus wasn't crucified, says theologian after much research.


Contrary to how Jesus is shown being executed in the Hollywood Biblical epics of the 1950s and 1960s, including “King of Kings”, it appears that, according to the theologian in the link below, he wasn't crucified after all, as there is no historical evidence that the Romans used that method of execution in first century Judea.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/7849852/Jesus-did-not-die-on-cross-says-scholar.html

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So what is your motive in plastering so many imdb boards Christian films with this "news"?

The "scholar" is obviously not very good because he completely ignores the skeleton of a Jew crucified in Jerusalem, approximately from the time of Jesus, which clearly shows that nails were driven through the heels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehohanan

Clearly, your own approach to this issue is enormously uncritical.

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I believe he was crucified.

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Yeah, if JC had an authentic historical existence, it's almost certain that he was crucified. I don't buy the Mythicist claim that a whole lot of ancient god-heroes died humiliating deaths, and that JC was no exception.

I think that this claim is challenged by Paul, where he says that his preaching of "Christ crucified" impeded his mission because it was a "stumbling-block" to Jews, and an outright "absurdity" to Gentiles. Apparently neither Jews nor Gentiles were comfortable with Paul's crucified Christ as World-Savior.

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