Anyone who may read this has most likely viewed the casket containing a dead person, and they are all the same. The dead do not move and do not breath because life has gone from them.

Crucifixion was most likely the worst hideous death by torture devised by man. Slow, agonizing and the worst pain a human could suffer came by this torture designed for the worst of criminals. The Persians and Babylonians most likely invented this means of torture, but the Romans sort of perfected it and utilized crucifixion for more than 500 years and ended the use of it in the 4th century AD.

Simply stated, the one who suffered this trauma died; period. And the Apostle Paul used this illustration in Romans 6:5-11,”For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.” NASB.

When a person believes by faith in the Risen Christ as Savior and Lord, He immediately replaces the old sinful man with a new spiritual life. “For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf. Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer. Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.” 2 Corinthians 5:14-17.

The point to be made in all of this is after the crucifixion of the old man, and having been replaced by the new spiritual man, the new life now exists and that new life is controlled by the indwelling Holy Spirit. For this reason we can better understand the words of Paul found in Romans chapter 7. The Bible is true in every respect.

Jesus is Lord.