well what I read was that one theory was that in the Bible it talks about how one of his followers wiped his forehead with a sponge while he was on the cross.
And at the time there was a drug that was administered by a sponge, that makes the person goto into a deep sleep and can look as though that they have died.
And the followers could have taken the body to the tomb where he could have recovered.
The bible takes about how the tomb was empty after his followers went there.
I personnaly dont believe this as the executioners would have checked to see if the body was dead before desposing of it.
p.s this is what I remember of the theory, as I read it a long time ago.
Yep, that's one.
Here are the three problems:
1. Jesus was pierced in the side i.e. the heart while on the cross to see if he was dead
2. A damp, dark cave is hardly the place to recover from the torments of hanging on a cross in the hot sun for seven hours
3. There were elite roman soldiers guarding the cave, hardly the kind of people a few fisherman can overpower to roll away the stone and enter the tom to remove the body.
well, you forgot a few parts of the theory...
The drug puts you in a sort of coma... no pain and you look pretty dead, so after that spear, wich was pretty common in those days, he wouldn't react, making him dead in the eyes of the Romans, who didn't know about the drug.
Very few people got burried but since they explicitly said it, it has to be that...
After approx 5 hours he ... hmmm, don't know the exact word for coming out of his drug... well, anyway, the drug left his body and he got awake...
Taking a leaf from my old RE teacher here...
I don't see the point of trying to scientifically rationalise what is presented to you by religion. I mean, what exactly will be achieved? For 90% or more of it there is not enough evidence to do a damn thing with it. And showing that some of the more impossible things in the Bible are possible... I don't see who that is going to make any difference to.
In the end, either you HAVE faith or you don't. Messing around trying to prove things seems to be missing the point.
I don't think I've ever heard of the drug theory, but the whole sponge thing may just be the part where a Roman soldier puts vinegar on a sponge to give to Jesus as he hung from the cross....
The purpose of this thread is simply to answer questions about the Christian faith....no more and no less....and BTW I don't think a discussion of religion has much to do with politics.