{"id":853,"date":"2010-02-16T11:30:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T16:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=853"},"modified":"2010-02-16T11:44:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T16:44:11","slug":"deathbed-conversion-of-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=853","title":{"rendered":"Deathbed Conversion of Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you ask fundamentalist Christians, they will tell you that many well known atheists in history have had deathbed conversions to Christianity. Among the names that I have heard from Christians include Voltaire, Sartre, Mark Twain, Thomas Paine, and of course Charles Darwin. Of course, these well known freethinkers never really had a deathbed conversion.<\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t hard to look into each of these individual cases and see that none of these atheists converted to Christianity at the time of their deaths. What I find interesting though is that according to the Bible, someone else had a deathbed change of heart.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?\u201d – Matthew 15:34<\/p>\n

Christians generally translate this to mean, \u201cMy God, My God, Why hast thou forsaken me.\u201d But that is not entirely accurate. Eloi is translated as \u201cMy God\u201d but it is not a generic form of god as most Christians seem to think. It is a particular god and not the God Yahweh.<\/p>\n

Eloi refers to the God `Ely?n who like Yam (Yahweh) is a Canaanite deity. In the Canaanite pantheon of gods, `Ely?n was the \u201cMost High\u201d father deity. He was the Zeus of that mythology. Yahweh was one of `Ely?n\u2019s sons. The Bible also mentions Yahweh\u2019s brother god Ba\u2019al Zebul (the fertility deity).<\/p>\n

So when Jesus was being crucified, he was not calling out to himself because that would be just a little silly. Instead, he was calling out to a Canaanite deity.
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