wedrifid comments on Mere Messiahs - Less Wrong

42 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 December 2007 12:49AM

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Comment author: DanielLC 14 November 2011 06:36:41AM 0 points [-]

Just to make sure: it's that the pain he suffered was from our sins, and not just the cross, right?

Comment author: wedrifid 14 November 2011 07:04:50AM 0 points [-]

Suffering. It wasn't specifically mentioned whether the suffering was all transmuted into physical pain while on the cross. In fact it was the actually being dead part that mattered the most - presumably he got whatever we had coming to us when we die while he was dead.