Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 48
48 Christianity – A Journey from Facts to Fiction a close, the climax of his emotional distress, dejection and hope- lessness is fully displayed in his last cry: "Eli, Eli, la´ma sabach- tha´ni?" that is, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (Matt 27:46) One must notice that it was not agony alone expressed in that cry but obviously there was mingled with it an element of sur- prise, bordering on horror. After he was brought back to consciousness, with the help of some of his dedicated disciples who applied to his wounds an ointment they had prepared before Crucifixion and which con- tained all the ingredients needed for mitigating pain and healing wounds, he must have been so wonderfully and happily surprised and his faith in a loving true God would have been reinstated and revitalised in a manner seldom experienced by man in its intensity and boundlessness. The fact that the ointment had been prepared in advance con- stitutes a strong proof that Jesus’ as disciples were indeed expecting him to be delivered from the cross alive, very much in need of medicinal treatment. From the above, it becomes comfortingly clear that the con- cepts of Inherited Sin and of Crucifixion are based only on the conjecture and wishful thinking of Christian theologians at a later date. It is quite likely that they were born out of some pre- Christian myths of a similar nature, which, when applied to the circumstances of Jesus Christ as , tempted them to read close simi- larities between the two and create a similar myth. However, whatever the mystery or paradox, as we see it, there is no evi- dence whatsoever that the Christian philosophy of Sin and