Ronald Weinland says Jesus was not crucified the way recorded in the New Testament. Ron's infinite wisdom dictates that Jesus was simply nailed to a stake. If that is true, why was he compelled to carry the cross beam to the place of execution? Here is an excerpt from the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia:
The person executed may sometimes have been attached to the cross by ropes, but nails are mentioned in a passage by the Judean historian Josephus, where he states that, at the Siege of Jerusalem (70), "the soldiers out of rage and hatred, nailed those they caught, one after one way, and another after another, to the crosses, by way of jest". Objects, such as nails, used in the execution of criminals were sought as amulets.
Frequently, the legs of the person executed were broken or shattered with an iron club, an act called crurifragium which was also frequently applied without crucifixion to slaves. This act hastened the death of the person but was also meant to deter those who observed the crucifixion from committing offenses.
I would be interested in why Ron is so adamant about the stake versus traditional crucifixion. Jerusalem would have had a dedicated place of execution during the Roman occupation. The prisoners would have to carry their own cross beam as an additional punishment. They were nailed to the cross beam and then hoisted up by rope through a notch at the top of a permanent pole embedded in the ground. If Jesus was nailed to the stake, as Ron preaches, he would not need to have carried a crossbeam.
Ronald Weinland does not have a PhD in anthropology, but Dr. Nick Hass professor of anatomy at H.U. Medical School does:
In his article "Anthropological Observations on the Skeletal Remains from Giv’at ha-Mivtar" published in the Israel Exploration Journal in 1970, N. Haas of the Department of Anatomy at Hebrew University, writes of the remains of a man crucified around A.D. 70 as showing that the two-beam cross was in use in Palestine in the first century: "The whole of our interpretation concerning the position of the body on the cross may be described briefly as follows: The feet were joined almost parallel, both transfixed by the same nail at the heels, with the legs adjacent; the knees were doubled, the right one overlapping the left; the trunk was contorted; the upper limbs were stretched out, each stabbed by a nail in the forearm."
Link to Wikipedia article on Crucify
The testimony of Jesus Christ clearly indicates he was crucified in this manner, and it is backed up by an anthropologist's lecture along with many historian's account of the times. Ron invents mischief to get peoples attention, then uses his sorcery to lead them away from the truth, and enslave them into his tithe pool.
In anticipation of Ron's response of "Wikipedia isn't a real encyclopedia. Anyone can write whatever garbage they want to, and post it on Wikipedia.", I am providing a link to Encyclopedia Britannica which publishes almost exactly word for word what is published by Wikipedia.
Just because Ron saw a drawing of a field expedient crucifixion, he has jumped to conclusions and abandoned what is clearly written in the Holy Bible. There is no truth in Ronald Weinland, which is why he is wearing the headgear of an enchanter on this blog. Of course everything written about Ronald Weinland here is only my humble opinion.
If I were to judge Ronald Weinland by the law of Moses, things would look pretty grim for him.
