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The Crucifixion....from a medical perspective.
HE DID ALL THIS FOR YOU AND ME!
A medical doctor provides a physical description of The Crucifixion:
The cross is placed on the ground and the exhausted man is quickly thrown
backwards with his shoulders against the wood. The legionnaire feels for
the depression at the front of the wrist. He drives a heavy, square
wrought-iron nail through the wrist deep into the wood.
Quickly he moves to the other side and repeats the action, being careful
not to pull the arms too tightly, but to allow some flex and movement. The
cross is then lifted into place. The left foot is pressed backward against
the right foot, and with both feet extended, toes down, a nail is driven
through the arch of each, leaving the knees flexed.
The victim is now crucified. As he slowly sags down with more weight on
the nails in the wrists, excruciating fiery pain shoots along the fingers
and up the arms to explode in the brain- the nails in the wrists are
putting pressure on the median nerves.
As he pushes himself upward to avoid this stretching torment, he places the
full weight on the nail through his feet. Again he feels the searing agony
of the nail tearing through the nerves between the bones of his feet. As
the arms fatigue, cramps sweep through his muscles, knotting them with deep
relentless, throbbing pain. With these cramps comes the inability to push
himself upward to breathe. Air can be drawn into the lungs but not exhaled.
He fights to raise himself in order to get even one small breath.
Finally, carbon dioxide builds up in the lungs and in the blood stream, and
the cramps partially subsided. Spasmodically, he is able to push himself
upward to exhale and bring in life-giving oxygen. Hours of limitless pain,
cycles of twisting, joint wrenching cramps, intermittent partial
asphyxiation, searing pain as tissue is torn from his lacerated back as he
moves up and down against rough timber.
Then another agony begins: a deep, crushing pain deep in the chest as the
pericardium slowly fills with serum and begins to compress the heart. It
is now almost over - the loss of tissue fluids has reached a critical level
- the compressed heart is struggling to pump heavy, thick, sluggish blood
into the tissues - the tortured lungs are making frantic effort to gasp in
small gulps of air. He can feel the chill of death creeping through his
tissues ...
Finally, he can allow his body to die ...
All this the Bible records w/ the simple words, "and they crucified Him"
Mark 15:24.
What wondrous love is this? Many people don't know the pain and suffering
our Lord, Jesus Christ went through for us ... because of the brutality,
crucifixion was a sentence given only to its worst offenders of the
law. Thieves, murderers, and rapists would be the types who got
crucified. Yet, here Jesus is being crucified between two hardened
criminals ...
What did Jesus do? Did he murder anyone? Did he steal anything? The answer
as we all know is NO!! Jesus did nothing to deserve this type of death,
yet He went willing to die, in between 2 thieves, so that WE might be
saved. And there, in between the sinners, was our Savior slain
for our sins.
Romans 10:9 "If you confess with you mouth that Jesus is Lord and BELIEVE
IN YOUR HEART that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." Saying
this with sincerity is all you have to do, but it's amazing because there
are so many people out there that can't do it.
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