No God but One: Allah or Jesus? (with Bonus Content): A Former Muslim Investigates the Evidence for Islam and Christianity by Nabeel Qureshi

Author:Nabeel Qureshi [Qureshi, Nabeel]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2016-08-30T04:00:00+00:00

SUMMARIZING THE POSITIVE CASE

A whole book can be dedicated to Jesus’ death, as indeed dozens have, but we may summarize the positive case before considering the Islamic response.

The basis of any historical case must be the primary sources, and in this case, the sources are unanimous, diverse, early, and plentiful: Jesus died by crucifixion. Starting almost immediately after Jesus’ death, over a dozen authors and traditions recorded the death of Jesus by crucifixion, including Christian, Jewish, and Roman sources, and their testimony was unanimous. For more than one hundred years, no record even suggests that Jesus survived death on the cross or otherwise circumvented his execution. This coheres well with what we know of crucifixion practices, in that there is no person in recorded history who ever survived a full Roman crucifixion. Positing that Jesus did not die on the cross would have served the agenda of the early Christians and those opposed to their message, but such a suggestion appears inconceivable.

For those who study Jesus’ life in academia, the idea that Jesus did not die by crucifixion remains, to this day, outside the realm of possibility.

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