The Case for Christ Student Response #5

In the first term of this school year my grade 7/8 class has read The Case for Christ: Student Edition by Lee Strobel. At the end of the study of the book each student was asked to answer one of the questions posed in the chapters of the book. I told that I would be sharing their responses online. So, throughout the rest of the year I will be posting their work. Please note, I have not edited these responses, they are exactly what the student handed me.

Did Jesus fake his death?

      Based on what we have discovered there is no physical way Jesus could have faked his death. Jesus was tortured and spit upon. By the time he even got to the cross He wasn’t in great condition. He was already half dead when put on the cross. He wore a crown of thorns, he had to carry the cross all the way there. He was punched, kicked, and just exhausted. But that’s only the beginning. I think by this point he would have wanted to die.

       When Jesus got to the place where He would be crucified they whipped him. So he was hanging on by the last few strings of life. When he was finally put on the cross they drove a 5 or 7inch long spike into his wrist, damaging many nerves into the hand. Then they would put another one through the feet. Jesus would have had to stand on his feet to prevent suffocation, but that would have caused the nail to rip father through his feet. He was literally bleeding out.

       After many hours of agonizing pain his hands and feet would have been torn up, his back would be scraped up from the cross plus he was whipped. His suffering finally ended with his famous last words “it is finished.” One of the Roman soldiers stuck a sword into his side. Which would have caused him to bleed out if they didn’t patch him up. He was also lying in that tomb with all those injuries and no medical attention.

      I think that you would have to be crazy to not believe that Jesus died on the cross for us. If you still think that a human man, could have survived all that torture I don’t know what will convince you.

Bibliography goes here:

Strobel, Lee, and Jane Vogel. The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus. Grand Rapids, MI: ZondervanPublishingHouse, 2001.