Apologists Nick Spencer and Joel Furches examine the evidence for the event at the heart of Christianity

Today, it is not uncommon to see a cross as a decoration or piece of jewellery and to think nothing of it. It is vaguely associated with religious symbolism, but little more than that. This contemporary attitude towards the symbol of the cross evidences the vast gulf that lies between the modern and the ancient world.

Public execution

In the days of the Wild West, outlaws were hung at the gallows in front of a crowd, and their lifeless bodies were left twisting in the wind. In revolutionary France, Nobles were dragged up to the guillotine and the crowd watched as their head rolled down a ramp and into a basket. Both European and Asian conquerors were reputed to impale the bodies of their victims and leave them rotting on pikes as a warning to their enemies… (Register to read the rest of the article)