So, I recently rehashed my old paper, and added a lot of new insights that have come onto the scene since. And even now, mere words cannot convey my thoughts, my wonder at this fact. He accomplished, by Grace, what I should have born myself. He did this all for me He took my place He endured, as an innocent Person, what I deserved as a sinner. Jesus did this for me! He hung on that cross, and went through all this heinous, physical agony of the worst and most intense pain ever devised as torture that a human could conceive and be subjected to. I was amazed and fixated on one thing that kept going through my mind as I researched, wrote, and taught on this subject. I also sought advice from many anatomy books and took a step-by-step approach on what happened, following the account in the book of Luke.Īfter several weeks of high-speed and intense research, the paper was an A, the sermon went off as my first bomb (Too gory for the old folks I was not asked to preach until several months later), and the youth really got into it. They are far more educated in biomechanics than most medical doctors are). D., do medical research, and/or teach in a medical school about how the body works. I interviewed several physiologists (people who have a Ph. I wrote a paper for a physiology class, prepared a few Sunday school lessons for Lent, and prepared a great sermon, or so I thought. So, I decided to "kill two (or three) birds with one stone," so to speak. And, because I was studying anatomy and physiology, I was also curious about what had happened to Jesus.Īfter doing a lot of research, I found little or no information on this subject. I sought for a different direction in the typical Lent teaching (I was in an high Liturgical Episcopal church at this time), aspiring to teach my youth what had happened to Jesus, physically, while He was on the cross. Being also a Christian in a secular university, I was inundated with callous remarks and pondering questions about my faith.
This was around 1982 when I was also a fairly new youth pastor and about to give one of my first sermons. When I was in college, more than a few years ago, I was a pre-med student studying biochemistry. what really happened to Jesus in those last 12 hours.