Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:

JESUS 'DIED OF A HEART ATTACK'

By John Follain
The Times of India
Saturday, June 12, 1999

Jesus Christ died on the cross of a heart attack,
rather than from asphyxiation, according to a leading
Italian forensic scientist who has compiled a detailed
medical history of Christ's last weeks on earth.

Working with accounts by the apostles as well as
laboratory simulations of the crucifixion, Luigi Baima
Bollone, a professor who heads Turin's forensic science
institute, argues that it is possible to use modern
medicine to analyse Christ's symptoms. The findings are
contained in a book, The Last Days of Christ, published
recently.

"If Christ had suffered only from asphyxiation he would
not have been able to talk," said Baima Bollone, who
specialises in dissecting murder victims. "But he is
known to have spoken several times while on the cross.
He did suffer from asphyxiation, but it was a very slow
process and he died of another cause, too."

The clue is Christ's death-cry of anguish: "Lord, Lord,
why have you forsaken me?" In the light of his earlier
condition, Baima Bollone believes it shows that he
suffered a heart attack, probably a coronary thrombosis
in which a clot forms in a branch of either of the
coronary arteries, resulting in its obstruction.

After the last supper, in the gardens of Gethsemane on
the site of the Mount of Olives, an anxious Jesus is
said to have broken down as the apostles fell asleep
around him. According to biblical accounts, he sweats,
wishes to flee, feels afraid of death and falls to the
ground -- all classic symptoms of a panic attack as
defined by modern science.

By the time he was crucified, Christ was exhausted and
dehydrated, and his blood was short of oxygen. The
psychological strain he had suffered, including fear
and frustration linked to the shame of arrest, was
compounded by episodes of physical torture: soldiers
beat him about the head and he was whipped 39 times.
His agony on the cross lasted only three hours because
of his weakened state.

"The apostles show great rigour in describing Christ's
condition. Luke had medical knowledge and it's almost
as if they had read our modern medical tomes," Baima
Bollone said. "There is enough material to issue
regular medical bulletins."

The book's findings have been favourably reviewed in
the Italian Catholic newspaper Avvenire, which likened
it to the professor entering the holy sepulchre and
examining Christ's body before a rock was placed across
the entrance.

Professor Bernard Knight, a former director of the
Forensic Medicine Institute in Cardiff, is sceptical,
however. "The data is too poor to say that Jesus died
of a heart attack and of asphyxiation, or that he died
faster than was normal for a crucifixion," he said.
"Scientifically, if you haven't got any basic data you
can't draw conclusions. It's like saying the moon is
made of green cheese."

(The Sunday Times)
[Caption: Bollone: examined evidence]

Source - http://www.timesofindia.com/today/12edit9.htm

I recently heard an evangelist teacher say that he believed
that it was the abandonment of Jesus by His Father that
actually killed Him. He could endure all things, but not to
be separated from the Eternal Father. That was the last blow
He had to suffer, and the one He could not hope to survive,
since all He ever did was only for the Father and, without
the Father, He had no more strength, and nothing more at all.

The terrorist mission of Jesus stated in the Christian bible:

"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not so send
peace, but a sword.
"For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the
daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in
law.
"And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
- Matthew 10:34-36.

That is a hostile and false interpretation.