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The Medical EvidenceCase for Christ
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• Crucial medicine evidence a child dies of a
  child abuse or accidental fall
• Why medical evidence of Jesus death?
• Koran
• Swoon theory meaning Jesus was taken from the
  cross not really dead
• Torture Before the Cross
• Garden of Gethsemane
• Jesus sweated blood?
• Luke 2244 And being in an
• agony he prayed more earnestly
• and his sweat was as it were great
• drops of blood falling down to
• the ground.

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• Hematidrosis relating to high degree of
  psychological stress
• Severe anxiety causes release of chemicals
  breaking down the capillaries in the sweat
  glands. As a result a small amount of bleeding
  into those sweat glands occurred
• Flogging (Flagrum)
• 39 lashes (Deut 2519)
• A whip of braided thongs with
• metal balls causing deep
• bruises or contusions
• It had pieces of sharp bones cutting flesh
  severely
• Matthew 2019 And shall deliver him to the
  Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify
  him and the third day he shall rise again.

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• The spine was exposed
• From shoulders to the back, buttocks, and hack of
  the legs
• Eusebius The sufferers veins
• were laid bare, and the very
• muscles, sinews, and bowels were
• open to exposure.
• Many people died before they
• could be crucified

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• Hypovolemic shock a person who suffers the
  effects of losing a large amount of blood
• 1) The heart races trying to pump when it is not
  there
• 2) Blood pressure drops causing fainting or
  collapse
• 3) The kidney stops producing urine to maintain
  what is left
• 4) The person becomes very thirsty as the body
  craves fluids to replace the volume of the lost
  blood
• I thirst
• John 1928 After this, Jesus knowing that all
  things were now accomplished, that the scripture
  might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. (Psalm
  6921)
• The trip to Golgotha Jesus staggered and
  collapsed before he got help from Simon

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• The Agony of the Cross
• Lethal injection and electric
• chair quick predictable
• Crucifixion slow crude
• Nails 5-7 inches

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• Through the wrists, inch or so below the wrist
  lock the hands
• If on the palms, His weight will cause the skin
  to tear will fall off the cross
• Nails hit median nerve, the largest nerve,
  resulted in burning pain be crushed like funny
  bone
• Imagine taking a pair of pliers and squeezing
  crushing that nerve
• Unbearable pain excruciating pain meaning out
  of the cross

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• Nail to the feet

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• Jesus arms had been stretched about 6 inches
  length both shoulders were disclocated
• Ps.22 14 I am poured out like water, and all my
  bones are out of joint my heart is like wax it
  is melted in the midst of my bowels.
• Cause of Death
• Crucifixion, an agonizing slow death by
  asphyxiation
• To exhale He must push up on His feet to allow
  the tension on the muscles to be eased
• During exhaling He scraped His bloodied back
  against the coarse wooden cross
• Complete exhaustion

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• Respiratory acidosis the carbon dioxide in the
  blood is dissolved in the blood leading to
  irregular heartbeat
• Lord, into thy hands I commit my spirit
• Luke 2346
• Hypovolemic shock gt rapid heart rate gt heart
  failure gt resulting in the collection of fluid in
  the membrane around the heart called pericardial
  effusion and lung called pleural effusion.
• Spear in the right side confirmed this causing
  clear liquid large amount of blood to spill
• John 19 34 blood water in order
  prominence, not sequence meaning more blood than
  water being spilled

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• Breaking legs of the two criminals
• John 1932 Then came the soldiers, and brake the
  legs of the first, and of the other which was
  crucified with him.
• Purpose speeding up the death since Sabbath
  starts at sundown Passover coming
• Reason the legs couldnt push up to exhale
  comfortably. Therefore, death by asphyxiation
  resulted in minutes
• Jesus legs were not broken
• Psalm 3420 he protects all his bones, not one
  of them will be broken. (NIV)
• Exodus 1246 It must be eaten inside the house
  take none of the meat outside the house. Do not
  break any of the bones. (NIV)

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• Soldiers were military experts they must be sure
  of the death or if the prisoner escaped, they
  will die for failing to ensure of the death
• Why all the suffering Jesus endured
• It summed up in one word, love

John 1930
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-heartcry-from-the-cross-it-is-finished/