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.
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Guess we scared him away. Either that or it's medication time in the psych ward.
Either that or it's medication time in the psych ward.
Too Funny
Hey! Where did you get a t-shirt like that.......uh...wait a minute......uh oh...(sinking feeling).....I think I may be in trouble....oh, CALVIN!!!.....now where did that boy go?.... ;-)
I always thought he died of dehydration.
Whoops. That was supposed to be a photo of Jack Nicholson from "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest"...
Oh NO The Dreaded red X :>)
Sorry...[hangs head in shame] What do you expect? I'm predestined to fail.
"If they did not did not find any elect, then there were none there to find."
Thank you for your answer.
Now, does this means that "God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life" only applies to the elect?
And if I am not one of the elect, the God who so loved the world created me to eternally burn in Hell? Regardless of what I do on earth? Mother Theresa (if not one of the elect) right next to Hitler?
I bought it at the "My Jesus is Better Than Your Jesus" zShop on Amazon.com
He never did define "sin" for us.
ROFL !
Excellent quote !
This guy was not there.
He could say anything and it would bring attention to himself.
HE could say for example......Jesus died from being shot by a 308 Winchester at 50 yards and that would make news.
Of course people would laugh and say today because they are so ignorant...."Of course he died from a 308 at 50 yards. No one can miss at that range."
Think about it for a while.
Youre not a good Christian.
Oh. Good. I was worried it came from Calvin (Iwaselected&you'renot) Klein.com
Were he alive today I can just imagine what view he'd take of someone like you.
His daughter in law and grandchildren were all Catholics and he had a late life conversion.
No, but he did demonstrate the sin of Pride quite adequately.
LOL
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