Well, seeing as the Prophet Isa was about to be CRUCIFIED, I think God's act of ''deception'' was an act of mercy! I also think the condemnation is warranted to those who worship the creation and not the Creator.
1) A source backing your statement would be helpful
2) From my knowledge, history showed that
someone was crucified. Whether or not it was Jesus is yet to be 100% proven. If you have any evidence of any kind, I would personally love to see and read it so I can make my own mind up
Firstly we have the four Gospels, that are at present in the Bible. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. These were written within*†he first century. With Mark, the earliest, as early as 60-65 AD. Matthew and Luke were based on Mark and were written later.
Now people toss out casually that the Injil was changed. [The Injil or Gospels, which are the mentioned Matthew, Mark, Luke and John] however you cannot simply add the crucifixion of Jesus, you cannot simply make minor changes to these Gospels. Now I can understand the idea of Jesus as the Son of God but not the cross. Each Gospel was written with the cross as the primary focus. I have read Matthew and Mark and I can see, there was no reason for them to be written at all if Jesus did not end up on the cross.
Next comes the Epistles of Paul. This is about half of the Bible. Archeologist do know some parts that were changed. They can tell this by looking at the writing style. But nothing about the cross was changed. Primarily the changed parts deal with the role of women in the church, the Pastoral Epistles, called 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy and Titus. These were written between 50-60 AD, about 10-15 or so years after Jesus was crucified.
Let me also make a note about Paul. Paul spent years of his life preaching. He was on the road. Numerous times he was beaten, thrown out of towns and eventually he was killed for preaching, as he put it in 1 Corinthians, "We preach Christ crucified" Here is a man who was actually well off, a good position in the Jewish temple who chose to preach Jesus dying on the cross, not decades later but only a few years.
Then there is Josephus, the Jewish historian, who lived between AD. 37-100 and who wrote in his works of Jesus, saying that some believed him to be the Christ, or Messiah, and that he was condemned to the cross by Pilate.
Next comes, less a document fact, but the expectations of the Jews on who the Messiah, or Christ, would be. There are things that can be quoted supporting this but I cannot recall any at the moment. We do know, however, that those Jews of that time who were expecting a Messiah to come, were expecting someone great. Someone who would conquer the enemies of Israel and raise them to great power. A crucified Messiah makes no sense to them. In fact it is said in the Old Testament, that cursed is he who hangs on a tree [is crucified] A cursed Messiah? For them to preach that a crucified Messiah makes no sense. It defies all logic of that time. In fact it was almost suicidal. No Jew would want a crucified Messiah! Most would laugh at the idea. It is the equivalent of someone stepping forward now and preaching David Koresh was the Messiah! They had no reason to preach Jesus crucified.
The only evidence we have that Jesus was not crucified is the Quran, written 600 years later, hundreds of miles away. I don't think I blame the Christians of that time or even this time for not believing us.
