Nuggets from "Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations" by Dave Hunt

Nuggets from “Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations” by Dave Hunt -

Why did the soldier at the crucifixion of Christ use a spear to pierce His side? Perhaps he acted in angry frustration that they had been cheated from watching this man’s full agony. Crucified with Him, the thieves were still alive, but He was dead already. He had not died from weakness but had shouted in triumph, “It is finished [the payment for our sins]!” The Greek word He used was “tetelestai.” It meant, “Paid in full,” and was marked in that day on invoices and promissory notes when totally paid: “And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost” (Luke:23:46And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
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These prophecies and the biblical record of their fulfillment are unacceptable to most Jews and non-Jews alike. Muslims reject them because they are specifically denied in the Qur’an: “They slew him not nor crucified, but it appeared so unto them…they slew him not for certain. But Allah took him up unto Himself” (Surah 4:157-58). Evangelical Christians reject the Qur’an’s contradiction of the Bible and accept what the Bible says because it is backed by numerous prophecies and eyewitness accounts of their fulfillment and irrefutable evidence that, according to some of the greatest legal experts in history, would constitute proof in any court of law today.