Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 110
110 Christianity – A Journey from Facts to Fiction The case was won by Kumar after he identified some marks on the body of his wife which only a husband could have known. His estate was then restored to him. " * Hundreds of thousands of similar cases might have gone com- pletely unreported. Thanks to modern medical facilities and media coverage, hundreds of similar cases are being reported and re- corded. If all this is plausible in cases of ordinary people from all classes of society and from all sorts of religious moral backgrounds, why could it not be possible in the case of Jesus as ? If anyone has the chance of surviving in challenging and almost impossible situations, Jesus as indeed stands a greater chance because of the special circumstance surrounding him. Strangely enough, how- ever, the sceptics dismiss the suggestion that Jesus as did survive the attempted murder by crucifixion. Yet they would readily believe a far more unrealistic, bizarre and unnatural tale of his revival from absolute death—death, which lasted a full three days and nights according to them. The field of medical research has also taken interest in the phe- nomenon of near death. A study was carried out in which seventy eight reports of near death experiences were examined. In eighty percent of the cases medical personnel were present during or immediately after these experiences. Interestingly, forty one * The Bhowal Case, compiled by J. M. Mitra and R. C. Chakravarty, published by Peer & Son, Calcutta.