Yahweh is supposed to be all-knowing and all-powerful, but there’s a theme you can find within the Bible that suggests a weakness in his attributes.

https://biblehub.com/judges/1-19.htm

The LORD was with the men of Judah. They took possession of the hill country, but they were unable to drive the people from the plains, because they had chariots fitted with iron.

https://biblehub.com/1_kings/6-7.htm

In building the temple, only blocks dressed at the quarry were used, and no hammer, chisel or any other iron tool was heard at the temple site while it was being built.

While the Bible never says what was used to fix Jesus to the cross, tradition says it was three iron nails. There are two reasons why the account of the crucifixion is atypical of normal Roman executions: first of all, they didn’t usually waste good iron nailing victims to their crosses. They tied them to the posts. Secondly, crucifixion victims normally took days to die of dehydration and suffocation, which is why the Romans did it that way. But Jesus allegedly died in hours, not days.

So clearly, Yahweh has a weakness to iron, and I fear no gods I know how to kill.

  • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Well they stabbed him with a spear. That tends to accelerate the process. Plus he had been heavily beaten and bloodied before being hung on the cross.

    • spaceghoti@lemmy.oneOPM
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      1 year ago

      The stabbing allegedly happened after he died, and I don’t imagine many of the victims were hoisted up in good health. The Romans would go around at the end of the day to break the legs of the victims so they couldn’t hold their heads up as easily, speeding along the process of asphyxiation.