The "Shame of the Cross" and its Glory
This article series attempts to be a quite comprehensive overview and interpretation of all the Bible and the Qur'an say on the topic of the Crucifixion of Jesus, the Messiah: Whether it happened, and what it meaning might be.I want to deal with the topic in three main parts:
- Part 1: The Message of the Prophets before Jesus
- Part 2: The Teachings of Jesus himself and of his Apostles
- Part 3: The statements in the Qur'an and final conclusions
- Appendix: Consequences: Where do we go from here?
- The Cross -- Historical and Archeological findings.
- Who was the crucified One? - A matter of the chain-of-custody
- How I came to believe that Jesus really did die on the cross and why it matters by Farid
- The Lamb of God
- Was Jesus substituted on the Cross?
- The Cross in the Gospel and the Qur'an by Iskander Jadeed
- The Cross (by Emir Rishawi)
- An interesting hadith
- Observations on Sura 4:159
- The Crucifixion of Christ - A Christian Critique of the Quran
- The Quran, Bible Preservation and the Crucifixion
- Missing Cross: Muslim Loss
- Three articles by Norman Geisler:
Further material on the Cross of Christ is to be found in John Gilchrist's responses to Ahmed Deedat under the titles
- The Crucifixion of Christ: A Fact, not Fiction
- What Indeed was the Sign of Jonah?
- Another close look at the "Sign of Jonah" by me responding to an Ahmadiyya on the Islamic newsgroup and complementing the above by Gilchrist.
- "After 3 days" or "on the 3rd day"?
- Which Day Was Christ Crucified?
- Josh McDowell's debate with Ahmed Deedat on the same topic.
- Paul invented modern Christianity including the crucifixion seems to be believed by some Muslims ...
- Abdullah Smith's war against the Crucifixion: Examining one Muslim's intellectual suicide mission
- On the Resurrection (superb)
- Easter and Jesus Christ's Death & Resurrection (frequently asked questions)
- The Historical Veracity of the Resurrection Narratives (heavy)
- The Great Irruption - The Work of Christ on the Cross
- Resources For Easter (a comprehensive list of articles answering to various objections)
- The Crucifixion
- Did Jesus Really Die? - [1], [2], [3a,b]
- Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?
- The Shroud of Turin: [1 (pictures)], [1 (no pictures)], [1a], [2], [2a], [3], [4], [5], [6], [Contra]
- Newsgroup on the Shroud of Turin: alt.turin-shroud
- Debunking the Shroud: Made by human hands (Seems to be decisive to me)
- The Trial of Jesus, The Trial on Trial, Jesus v. Sanhedrin, Jesus' Trial
- Pontius Pilate
Don't all the many conflicting theories about the events around the "crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus" show that this is all a very doubtful thing to start with?
And here a debate on this topic from the newsgroup:
- The Theories
- First specific response
- Second specific response
- General evaluation
- What kind of cross did Jesus die on?
- The Historical Veracity of the Resurrection Narratives
- The Sign of the Cross (Jerusalem Christian Review, Volume 9, Issue 4)
More on the various theories ...
Other worthy pages: Written in Blood (Meaning of the Cross)
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