When people talk about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, no one ever seems to discuss what it would’ve been like from Christ’s point of view. Perhaps that’s because, if we stop clinging to the hope that it was all for the greater good, the events become too disturbing to imagine. Surely it’s a suffering so immense that the only word to really describe it is “biblical.” Just as the pain of the crown of thorns digging into his forehead flattens into something comfortable, comes the searing torment of a spike driven through the body. Awaiting death, drifting in and out of consciousness, what else would Christ see when his vision focused but a horde of people staring back at him; eyes empty, souls adrift. Is it a sight of pure, inhumane evil, or do their blank expressions merely reflect a corruption that can still be reversed?
That’s why the Bible was written, right? So we could read it and be saved?
