Kyle Davison Bair
3 min readMar 27, 2024

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Hi Siri, thanks for taking the time to respond.

You said:

“The guard pieced his chest on his right.”

Where do you get this?

The text says nothing like this.

The guard who pierced Jesus with a spear was a professional executioner. His job was to ensure that whoever went up on the cross came down dead.

It is quite reasonable to expect that a professional executioner knew the location of the heart, and knew where to stab to puncture the heart.

And yet, even if he somehow stabbed Jesus on the right side, Jesus would still die.

Remember, Jesus was whipped 40 times. Many victims died from this whipping alone. Rome was absolutely brutal in this kind of torture.

After that, Jesus had to carry the Cross miles up to the top of the hill.

After that, Jesus was nailed to the Cross and left to die for six hours, having to pull Himself up on the nails every time He wanted a breath.

His blood loss was incredible. The sheer physical trauma was almost incalculable.

Being stabbed on top of that, even on the right side, would be the end.

Jesus wouldn’t revive and pop back up after a couple of days. No one would.

You can barely survive being stabbed with a spear even if you’re perfectly healthy. Try surviving when you’ve been beaten to within an inch of your life, whipped until your back is shredded, lost blood constantly for the past six hours, and nailed to a wooden beam.

Either way, Jesus was dead.

You said:

“There is a benefit of doubt here that I think is credible and we cannot say for sure that Jesus was dead when they took him down from the cross especially when he said he will be back after 3 days and 3 nights, then right side pierced and not left, but blood, muscle tissue blood vessels.”

There is no doubt here, none whatsoever.

Rome designed the Cross as a method of execution. It was designed precisely for inflicting the maximum amount of human suffering, then killing the victim in the most public and shameful way possible.

Jesus’ crucifixion was overseen by professional executioners. They knew what they were doing.

In all of recorded history, there is no example of anyone surviving the full brunt of the Cross. Everyone who suffered it died.

Just to show how brutal it was, there was one time — and one alone — where someone was rescued off a cross. One influential Roman recognized three people who had just been crucified and demanded that they be released. They were brought down immediately and given the best medical care.

Two of the three died anyway, despite being attended to in every possible way. The third lived, barely, but was horribly disfigured and scarred.

And even this meager rescue only happened because the person had not been on the cross long at all. Their blood loss was not as great, the physical stress had not yet exhausted every reserve in their body.

Had that person been whipped as Jesus was, and beaten as Jesus was, and been forced to carry their cross as Jesus was, and left on the Cross for six hours as Jesus was, and stabbed as Jesus was, they would have died, just as Jesus did.

You said:

“Jesus was an exceptional figure in history with a full potential Cosmic brain-mind, and who would have had full control over his brain and mind - back in 3 days and 3 nights.”

Jesus certainly had full control over His brain and mind.

Yet such control cannot counter the sheer physical abuse His body suffered.

Jesus died.

No amount of mental control can alter that.

You said:

“Either way it does not matter to me - I do believe that Jesus was possibly also not of this Planet. Perhaps we might find out soon.”

What matters, my friend, is that Jesus said He was God, and predicted that He would die, then return from the dead.

By doing so, He would prove His claim to be God. Not an alien, not a mere prophet, not even an angelic or divine being — but God.

That’s why His death on the Cross matters so much. Rome designed the Cross to guarantee death. If you knew someone was crucified and left on the cross, you knew they died. There was no doubt. That was the entire point.

That’s why His Resurrection matters.

His return to life proves His claim.

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Kyle Davison Bair
Kyle Davison Bair

Written by Kyle Davison Bair

Every honest question leads to God — as long as you follow it all the way to the answer. New books and articles published regularly at pastorkyle.substack.com

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