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Jesus died of blood clot - Israeli researcher
Yahoo - Reuters ^ | June 8, 2005

Posted on 06/08/2005 4:41:38 AM PDT by echoBoomer

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli researcher has challenged the popular belief that Jesus died of blood loss on the cross, saying he probably succumbed to a sometimes fatal disorder now associated with long-haul air travel.

Professor Benjamin Brenner wrote in The Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis that Jesus's death, traditionally believed to have occurred 3-6 hours after crucifixion began, was probably caused by a blood clot that reached his lungs.

Such pulmonary embolisms, leading to sudden death, can stem from immobilisation, multiple trauma and dehydration, said Brenner, a researcher at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa.

"This fits well with Jesus's condition and actually was in all likelihood the major cause of death by crucifixion," he wrote in the article, based on religious and medical texts.

A 1986 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association mentioned the possibility that Jesus suffered a blood clot but concluded that he died of blood loss.

But Brenner said research into blood coagulation had made significant strides over the past two decades.

He said recent medical research has linked immobility among passengers on lengthy air flights to deep vein thrombosis, popularly known as "economy-class syndrome" in which potentially fatal blood clots can develop, usually in the lower legs.

Brenner noted that before crucifixion, Jesus underwent scourging, but the researcher concluded that "the amount of blood loss by itself" would not have killed him.

He said that Jesus, as a Jew from what is now northern Israel, may have been particular at risk to a fatal blood clot.

Thrombophilia, a rare condition in which blood has an increased tendency to clot, is common to natives of the Galilee, the researcher wrote.

© Reuters 2005. All Rights Reserved.


TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: archaeology; blood; crucifix; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; history; israel; jerusalem; jesus; kookthread; postedtowrongforum
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To: GipperGal

Again, you show just HOW CLUELESS you are about what Calvinists really believe if you think it means do nothing.

You are really starting to get under my skin.


261 posted on 06/08/2005 12:41:33 PM PDT by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
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To: GipperGal

Oh, by the way, Mr. Reagan was Presbyterian.


262 posted on 06/08/2005 12:42:02 PM PDT by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
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To: Gamecock
God rewards faith.

That's pretty antedelluvian. Most monotheists understand the Book of Job to teach us that material blessings, or their lack, are not indicative of one's amount of faith.

SD

263 posted on 06/08/2005 12:43:10 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: Gamecock

All I can assume by "them" is God fearing Christians.



So then am I to understand that if I don't believe
just exactly like you do then I am NOT a God
fearing Christian.


264 posted on 06/08/2005 12:43:32 PM PDT by WKB (A closed mind is a good thing to lose.)
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To: Gamecock

"Let's rejoice in fact instead of wallowing in conjecture"

I am seriously trying to understand your beliefs. Despite much sarcasm and rude behavior on this board, I am trying to seek the Truth. There can only be one Truth. Jesus wanted us to be one. “I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be perfectly united in mind and thought. My brothers, some from Chloe's household have informed me that there are quarrels among you. What I mean is this: One of you says, “I follow Paul”; another, “I follow Apollos”; another, “I follow Cephas”; still another, “I follow Christ.” Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized into the name of Paul? 1 Cor 1:10-13

We cannot be one if everyone brings his own version of the Truth.

I'll try again. What do you believe would happen if one of the elect were not found?


265 posted on 06/08/2005 12:44:02 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Choose life!)
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To: Petronski

What a stupid question actually.

It is simply IMPOSSIBLE for God's elect to not be found because God is sovereign and would not allow it.

NEXT!

NO SOUP FOR YOU.


266 posted on 06/08/2005 12:44:19 PM PDT by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
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To: rwfromkansas
"If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ rightly."

Then what's the point? I'm either pre-saved by God or I'm not. Since there is nothing I can do about it, why should I care at all about God and his rules?

267 posted on 06/08/2005 12:44:31 PM PDT by Modernman ("Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made." -Bismarck)
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To: rwfromkansas

"Widen my mind" . . . . from a Calvinist.






Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! [dabs a tear]

Ohhh! That's rich!


268 posted on 06/08/2005 12:44:33 PM PDT by Petronski (How do you solve a problem like Petronski?)
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To: rwfromkansas
Widen your mind.

You are the one with the narrow fixation on God's sovereignity. We believe He is big enough to grant us actual freedom, so that we can actually freely love Him.

You believe He is a puppetmaster. Unthwartable.

SD

269 posted on 06/08/2005 12:44:50 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave; rwfromkansas
So then, for the third time, if God's plans can't be thwarted on what basis are some sent to hell?

Let's simplify the question a little--if God's plans can't be thwarted, then define sin.

270 posted on 06/08/2005 12:45:45 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Petronski

God commands us to do it. That is all you need to know.

You need to read Romans 9...when Paul talked about this very topic he had the same objections (there is nothing new under the sun).

You know what he said? The gist is this: Who are you to question God, oh man?

Well, just who are you to question God's ways, Petronski?


271 posted on 06/08/2005 12:46:00 PM PDT by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
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To: SoothingDave

Sigh.

Pick up a Bible and read it. I believe you can do that now.

When God's collective people are in faith, as a whole they prosper. When they sin, they are punished.

It's all through the OT. (that's the first 2/3rds)


272 posted on 06/08/2005 12:46:28 PM PDT by Gamecock (We don't beat "nice" people to a bloody pulp, nail them onto a cross and then watch them suffocate.)
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To: Gamecock; SoothingDave
God rewards faith.

I guess that explains why Jesus told the rich man, "go sell all that you have, give it to the poor, and follow me." For that matter, I suppose that explains why God decided to enter human history in a stable.

273 posted on 06/08/2005 12:47:10 PM PDT by GipperGal
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To: OB1kNOb

I am not convinced. You are reciting the same classic objection texts that have been thoroughly refuted by people far better than me.


274 posted on 06/08/2005 12:48:02 PM PDT by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
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To: Modernman
Then what's the point? I'm either pre-saved by God or I'm not. Since there is nothing I can do about it, why should I care at all about God and his rules?

You got it. If you convince yourself you are saved you can be self-satisfied because nothing you do matters. It you convince yourself you are damned you can despair because nothing you do matters.

Smugness or despair. What a system.

SD

275 posted on 06/08/2005 12:48:23 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: rwfromkansas
I believe in predestination and God's foreknowledge
but I DO NOT believe Jesus died only for the elect.
He died so that every person COULD be saved. To believe that you are so special as to be in that select group is the height of arrogance.
276 posted on 06/08/2005 12:48:49 PM PDT by WKB (A closed mind is a good thing to lose.)
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To: SoothingDave
If God's will can't be thwarted, on what basis are some sent to hell?

The logical conclusion would be that God has pre-determined that some people will go to hell and there is nothing they can do about it.

I find that to be a pretty bleak view, IMO.

277 posted on 06/08/2005 12:48:52 PM PDT by Modernman ("Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made." -Bismarck)
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To: Petronski
St. Francis de Sales, pray for us!


278 posted on 06/08/2005 12:50:01 PM PDT by GipperGal
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To: OB1kNOb

predestined to salvation through our free will?

That is so utterly silly it is hilarious.

Predestination is a sovereign decree. Look it up.

It could not be dependent upon our decision-making....PARTICULARLY SINCE WE ARE DEAD TO SIN AND OUR ONLY CHOICE WOULD BE DEATH!


279 posted on 06/08/2005 12:50:34 PM PDT by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
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To: Gamecock
Pick up a Bible and read it. I believe you can do that now. When God's collective people are in faith, as a whole they prosper. When they sin, they are punished. It's all through the OT. (that's the first 2/3rds)

Yes, thank you for the illustration. We believe in something called "the New Covenant." God became Incarnate and suffered. The simplistic idea that good people get material, temporal rewards and bad people get material, temporal punishments is disproved by opening your eyes.

SD

280 posted on 06/08/2005 12:50:50 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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