The physiological effects of crucifixion cause asphyxiation, and eventually, the lungs to fill with blood, simultaneously drowning and suffocating the crucified, and the obvious torture Christ suffered, the nailing to the cross, plus the Roman legionnaire piercing Christ's side to relieve his pain seems to correspond to the threefold death.
How is an execution technique religiously exclusive?
Kayden Allen
I'm not sure what you mean? The threefold death had religious connotations in Celtic and Germanic societies.
Or are you referring to the crucifixion?
Jeremiah Long
>Celtic >Germanic
Jesus was executed by Romans with a Roman method invented by Romans. Unless crucifixion according to Romans was threefold death, it wouldn't be threefold death. And even if it was, so what? That's not the point of the Crucifixion to Christians so it's a moot point.
Matthew Edwards
I'm not the OP but the "threefold death" thing is obviously a metaphor and not a literal way in which people die. And besides Odin was nailed up to a tree as well in order to learn women's magic. It's hardly a unique story.
Jonathan Scott
No, you're missing the point entirely. Certain pagan societies sacrificed people, usually a noble, in a certain fashion; the threefold death. It had a specific function that was significant to these cultures.
In regards to the crucifixion of Christ, a sacrifice according to Christian theology, it corresponds remarkably similar in the effects physically as well as in the function of its purported purpose.
Ryder Long
Demons imitate God it is true:
>And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
2 Cor 11:14
Benjamin Bell
Wrong, people were sacrificed specifically in a threefold manner. Through some form of physical wound, strangulation and drowning.
We have physical evidence of this as well as well documented mythical deaths occurring in this fashion.
Dylan Green
And actually it was invented by Persians.
Mason Bell
Then it has even less of a relation to Europagan threefold death.
Jackson Richardson
>runes >women's magic
Alexander Adams
>remarkably similar Except the differences make all the difference.
Lucas Gray
>not knowing Odin was trans
Connor Kelly
>And besides Odin was nailed up to a tree as well in order to learn women's magic. It's hardly a unique story. >Norse myths were only recorded in text after Christianization >this means Norse influenced Christians and not the other way around somehow
Horus, get off the internet.
Zachary Cox
European threefold death is Indo-European in nature.
You're missed my point entirely though in that a torture and execution method developed possibly millenia before is irrelevant but that its apparent use in the killing of Christ just so happens to be so similar to a cultural practice the vast majority of people adopted or the Romans just so happened to wish to convert and were hihighly familiar with. Especially in terms of religious significance.
Adam Wright
There are fuck all differences. It corresponds exactly the same in terms of its purpose and physical application.
Hudson Lewis
>It corresponds exactly the same in terms of its purpose The historical purpose, or the purpose within Christian Theology?
Aaron Gutierrez
both
Carter Peterson
Or, maybe, the Passion and the Crucifixion have deliberate poetic and thematic significance because God wanted it that way.
You people, I swear, always going about the question the wrong way.
Carter Sanders
god isn't real
grow up kid
Noah Ward
He is, you just don't want him to be. But he's real whether you want him to be or not.
