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Quote by: whoracle But is that really a fact? Every one of your Christian depictions I've ever seen shows a gash on his side, not a hole as if he'd been gored...I guess that would be akin to why those same depictions cover his loin with a cloth....because we both know that didn't happen either. |
You are right about the loin cloth. The condemended were striped to add to the humiliation of being hung on a tree. For a Jew this type of death was the worst way to go. They believed that if someone died in this way they were cursed. This is in fact stated in the Torah. This is one of the major reasons the Jews of that time rejected Christ as Messiah. For them it was unthinkable for the Messiah to be hung on a tree and therefore cursed.
As far as the gash/hole in the ribs the scripture states that
water and blood flowed from the wound. This can only happen if the pericardium is peirced. This is accurate because if someone is stabbed in the heart the pericardium would rupture first and the clear pericardial fluid would leak out first followed by blood from the heart itself. :)