“He Pretended To Be Dead”

I recently saw a clip from Chris Hitchens. I’ve referred to it several times over the last week because there was so much in it that shows that a commitment to naturalism leads to thinking that is:
convoluted,
absurd,
illogical and
incoherent.

In fact a commitment to atheism leads to thinking that is NO LESS absurd than that which is found in those who deny the Holocaust. Here's yet another example.

Chris says that the reason the tomb that Jesus was buried in was empty on the Sunday morning in question was because Jesus had just “pretended to be dead.”

Hitchens was not joking.

. He acknowledged the historical Jesus.
. He admitted His crucifixion.
. He admitted to Jesus’ burial in a tomb and
. He even admitted that the tomb was empty come Sunday morning.

What Christopher Hitchens expects us to believe is that after undergoing a Roman scourging (that itself brought about death in many cases), and after a Roman crucifixion (which was meant to cause death), Jesus lay in an ice cold cave for 40 odd hours and then, and THEN, by Himself:
. Extricated Himself from a hundred metres of burial wrapping that was cemented together with 35kgs of embalming spices
. Moved a two tonne stone
. Overcame a Roman guard and
. Escaped from the tomb.
. He then appeared to His followers as someone who had emerged victorious over death in a ‘resurrection body.”

And all this because while on the cross, Jesus had just pretended to be dead.

That’s what atheists are like. It’s how they think. Atheists pride themselves in not believing "improbable events" but discount those events by suggesting something with an even greater improbability!

There’s more.

Before all this, before the resurrection, before the burial, a Roman soldier, a professional killer whose job for the day was making sure that Jesus was dead, ran a spear into Jesus’ chest cavity and out poured, “water and blood.”

Water and blood?

Because this is a "bronze age book" the writers didn’t know what we know today.

Well, what MOST of us know today.

Mr. Hitchens and other atheists who agree with his premise obviously still have a bit of reading to do on the subject. You see, what the eyewitnesses of the time thought was WATER and blood was actually blood that had broken down or separated into serum and red blood cells. There are two ways and only two ways to separate blood serum from the red blood cells -

1) Take a tube of blood and spin it down in a centrifuge or
2) Have the body die and let the blood break down naturally.

That Jesus was dead is beyond question - unless one is an atheist. If you’re an atheist you really don’t have any choice, even in the face of irrefutable forensic medical evidence, but to say that Jesus was just pretending to be dead. The Roman soldier, in an action designed to ensure the death of Jesus, pierced Jesus’ heart and chest cavity and the proof that He was ALREADY dead poured out.

“But He was just pretending to be dead,” says atheist spokesperson Christopher Hitchens

Because dead people only rise from the dead by supernatural means, if you’re an atheist you have to say something like “Jesus pretended to be dead or that He fainted or swooned.”

Based on experience and observable evidence, the Roman Centurion emphatically and accurately pronounced Jesus dead.

In a strange bit of irony, it appears the Roman soldier knew by instinct what modern science has confirmed today. Christopher Hitchens on the other hand, and all like-minded atheists haven’t even caught up with a bronze age knowledge of medical science.

This is where atheists join the type of thinking that is used by those who deny the Holocaust. 'If you don't like the obvious, just deny that it happened.'

When you live by the creed - "There is NOTHING more to life than what the senses can detect," either Jesus pretended to be dead OR Jesus didn't exist.

To atheists:
. If it's historical, it can't be supernatural
. If it's supernatural, it can't be historical

They don't like it when you point out the obvious absurdities of what they believe,

BUT

That IS what atheists are like. It IS how they think.