Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 69
Crucifixion 69 the laws of nature and should not be required to prove it beyond that. Otherwise, anyone could say that his great great great. . . grandfather has not died. If such a claimant goes around challeng- ing everyone to prove otherwise, what would be their reaction? How can a poor listener meet such a challenge? He can only point out that the laws of nature operate on every human being and spare no one. So if someone is making claims against the laws of nature, the onus of proof is on him. This is the first answer. But I will now make another humble attempt to try to make things clearer from a different viewpoint. Whatever his relation- ship with God, was it beyond Jesus Christ as to die? The Christians them-selves believe that he died. If it was against his nature to die, this could not have happened in the first place. Yet we all agree that he died at least once. The remaining part of the enquiry would be as to when he died. Was it on the cross or was it afterwards. The Sign of Jonah We can prove from the Bible that God did not abandon him and saved him from the ignoble death upon the cross. This can be studied in the light of the facts relating to the period before the Crucifixion, as well as the facts of the Crucifixion itself and after it, as related by the New Testament. Long before the Crucifixion, Jesus as promised that no sign would be shown to the people other than the sign of Jonah as.