Contradicting two thousand years of scholarship, a Swedish pastor has decided that Jehovah's Witnesses are right about Jesus not having died on a cross.
He disputes the consensus of historians that crucifixion was a common form of punishment in the Roman Empire, and suggests on the basis of a second account of what was described by a Roman writer as a crucifixion which sounds more like an impalement that historians and theologians have been wrong about the way Jesus and many Christian martyrs were put to death.
I know that sometimes there are slow news days. But I never cease to be amazed at how easy it is for any eccentric with a pet theory throwing doubt on some aspect of the Christian Faith to get all the publicity he wants. There's nothing new about this theory, which most experts reject.
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And what "evidence" does he have for this?
Apparently there are two accounts of a certain Roman execution, one of which uses the word
"crucifixion" and the other making the execution appear to have been an impalement.
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