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From: waynec@tekcrl.UUCP (Wayne Cook)
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Subject: Re: Rowing through the fog
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Date: Thu, 18-Sep-86 16:45:44 EDT
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In article <1795@ihlpa.UUCP> nikbek@ihlpa.UUCP (Moseley) writes:
>> >>What's the big deal about "dying" to prove your love when you know you can
>> >>come back from the grave at will?
>> > Getting nailed to a large block of wood is FUN?  (I'd be curious
>> > how you spend your weekends ...)
>> 
>> "Yeah, that's it.  An' you get... uh..."
>>         "Some six-penny nails?"
>> "Yeah!  An' you drive the nails right through your palms...
>
>I recall some studies which indicate that nails through the palms of
>a person's hands will not support the person's weight. The nails
>were actually driven through the wrists, which will  support a person's
>weight. I also believe that posts were actually used. I'm not sure where
>the idea of a cross came from.
>					R. C. Moseley
This is an interesting discussion about the pain of crucifiction.  The people
who feel that there are other people who have suffered about as much physical
pain as hanging on a cross are probably right.  The main suffering and taking
on the sins of the world was done in the Garden of Gethsemane.  There Jesus
bled from every pore because of the pain (and his sweat was as it were great
drops of blood falling down on the ground - Luke 22:44).  No other human or
animal has been able to survive the pain that causes blood to come from every
pore.  He did.  I am sure the crucifiction was not easy, and it was an important
part of the overall plan, but it was probably not the most painful.