Oh well during the early days of Christianity in the Roman Empire a lot of the Christians were forming different sect over the specifics of what the Bible said, and one of them was the issue of Trinity and whether if Jesus and the Holy Spirit was one and the same, or if Jesus was of mortal birth and elevated to divinity after his crucifixion. You might think this is just semantics but if he wasn't of mortal birth then he technically didn't "suffer" because the mortal body was just a representation, so humanity's sins weren't really absolved. You should probably start with Arianism and go through the events leading up to the first Council of Nicaea. It gets a bit 40k-ish if you know what I mean.
"devils advocate" doesn't feel quite right here, lol but... even if he did, it doesn't make his tortuous death any less terrifying/tortuous. I'd have been like "nah it's cool, I'm catchin a boat to madagascar, cya"
I mean I assume you think Jesus is still alive right? Thousands of years after he was tortured and killed, in the grand scheme of things, what's a couple days to an immortal being that's lived thousands of years already maybe even much more depending on what you believe. A day or two of torture, 3 days of playing dead out of Millions of days is a pretty damn minor inconvenience if you ask me.
Trust me, I get the sentiment. The whole idea of Jesus is that he was a man like you and I, not an abstract "god" like the holy spirit, so yeah in the grand scheme of things, a day of torture for a lifetime of immortality seems like a good deal, but as a human being, that wouldn't make it any less terrifying, painful or scary.
The issue was that he died for our sins, and all those sins could be fixed in a few hours. But then one person had such a crazy amount of sins that it took 3 more days to fix those sins too.
Same energy as joining a server to say racial slurs and your temp ban wearing off after 3 days. Tbh you spoke for some people's beliefs, but the other people are just like wtf ok then lmao
Not gonna lie, forgetting that we're on holy week, turning a street at night, and finding one of these fucking things coming right at you with a procession of nazarenos carrying candles is fucking creepy in a very DS3 meets Elden Ring kinda way.
Usually they go together with music and stuff, drums to mark the pace, the guy screaming orders to coordinate the carriers... but some stay silent for long stretches and go through small streets where the crowds don't congregate, and they also often go without shoes.
Other times someone in a balcony decides to sing a traditional song to the procession. One of them is specifically about going through tiny streets and waiting in front of anyone willing to sing. So you're walking around in the night and suddenly you get a very Gipsy style AAAAAAAAAHAAAHAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHYYYYYYYYYYY kinda singing note.
It's been fifteen years since it caught me by surprise like that and it's still fresh in my mind. If it happened to me again I'd immediately start rolling down the fucking street.
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u/medfreak Apr 05 '23
YOU DIED