Torture jesus game

You must decide what you will do with Jesus—who He claimed to be, and what He did. I present to you exhibits Alpha through Omega: Jesus went about claiming to be God, that He had the power to forgive sins, that He has always existed, and that He will judge the world at the end of time, all claims reserved only for God.

Many witnesses verified these claims. The question is not that Jesus made these claims, but are they true? What is your verdict? He clearly claimed to be God, but if He knew He were not, that makes Him nothing but a liar and a deceiver.

Liars have selfish motives. Either they want personal gain, or they want to protect themselves from harm. Jesus died owning nothing but the clothes on His back, and when faced with the opportunity to defend Himself, He deliberately kept silent.

That would have been the perfect time for a good lie. He spoke against hypocrisy, yet He taught honesty. If he was a liar, He was also a hypocrite. Yet when you study His teachings, you discover a moral standard based on kindness, unselfishness, mercy and forgiveness.

How could someone so sublimely honest and innocent and good be the biggest deceiver in all of history? But if you listen to all the testimonies about Jesus in the Gospels, He is without a doubt the sanest person who ever spoke and lived.

How could a crazy person be such an extraordinary wise teacher and guide. When you look at the symptoms of people in psychiatric wards, you see that every other part of their life is out of balance, and they are totally self-focused. When you look at the life and teachings of Jesus, you see extraordinary wit, calmness and control in adversity and opposition, unparalleled wisdom, and monumental love and mercy and compassion for OTHERS.

This man exhibits the opposite of lunacy in every possible way. They turned a simple man into a myth. This theory is being spoon-fed to college freshman all across America. Jesus was just a legend like Hercules or Superman. Does he think this thought never occurred to anyone in 2, years? We can dismiss the daunted genius, Richard Dawkins literally in two easy steps: First, the fact that we have four slightly different accounts of the life of Jesus actually is evidence that they were genuine descriptions of events.

If there had been a plot to promote a myth, they would have plotted to get the details right. Slight variations, explaining the same events from the point of view of different witnesses, only buttress their authenticity. But, in the gospel accounts, it appears that the soldiers were completely prepared for an all-too-specific mockery of royalty as they tortured and tormented Jesus.

How is this possible? The answer is quite simple. The barbaric and contemptuous treatment that Jesus received was a somewhat regular, macabre game that Roman soldiers played with many if not all death row inmates.

In our day, every man going to the electric chair or gas chamber receives certain last privileges: a final meal, a final visit, and the opportunity to say any final words. Other men, possibly even the two thieves crucified alongside Jesus, endured the same kind of grisly game of pummel the prisoner that our Lord did. Consider, for instance, this historical excerpt from the writings of a Roman consul and historian named Cassius Dio.

He is describing what solders did to a dethroned emperor, named Vitellius. The events described below took place December 22, 69AD. Dr Evanari said roman crosses stood about seven to seven-and-a-half feet in height because from a practical point of view, it was easier to lift the crosspiece and victim into position on a shorter cross.

Shorter crosses also made it easier for wild animals to finish off victims. It is difficult to imagine the pain our Lord was in but He knew from the start this had to happen for Him to pay the price for man's sins. We have the chance of life everlasting because of what Jesus did.

Courtesy of Press Service International. At the older and more traditional churches, the paintings and statues draw my attention. Crucifixion Statue I'm interested in those of Jesus on the cross during his crucifixion. Flagellation Roman flagellation was one of the most feared of all punishments.

Then came the 'Crown of Thorns Dr. It wasn't for show. The Short Cross The cross itself was the ultimate torture where many victims suffered for several hours before dying. This is a truth that ought to condition attitudes toward torture today, particularly among those who regard Jesus as God. It means that there is a direct connection between the events of that first Good Friday and the torture depicted in the recent film Zero Dark Thirty, that there is a line to be drawn between Guantanamo Bay and Golgotha, between the evils of Bashar al-Assad, president of Syria, and the evils of Pontius Pilate, governor of Judea.

In the Roman mind, crucifixion was an act of state terror. By the time of Jesus, the ancient world had already tried dealing with its undesirables by boiling them in oil, stoning them, strangling them, drowning them and setting them on fire. All of these brought on death too quickly. Officials wanted a method of killing that was slow and terrifying enough that no onlooker missed the implied threat. Crucifixion met this need. The name reveals the purpose: cruciare-torture. In practice, it was simply death by impalement.

In meaning, it was a statement of what rulers could do to anyone who resisted their will. The Romans learned the art of crucifixion from the Greeks, improved upon it, and made it a tool of Empire.

In answer to the slave revolt under Spartacus in 71 B. During the Siege of Jerusalem in 70 A.