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fuzymunky01: 11 months ago

What is the origin of the cross?

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ravenevan: 11 months ago via iPhone

The cross as a symbol goes way back before Roman times. The solstices and equinoxes observed from ancient times divides the year into fourths and dividing something into fourths makes a cross.

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fuzymunky01: 11 months ago

Yes exactly. Thank you bro.

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ravenevan: 11 months ago via iPhone

If you already knew, why ask?
I think we know why.

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ravenevan: 11 months ago via iPhone

The entire Christian faith is patterned after various sun gods which sacrifice themselves at the winter solstice on the southern cross constellation.

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ravenevan: 11 months ago via iPhone

Your contention that Jesus died on a stake not a cross is just a demonstration of many levels of ignorance.

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fuzymunky01: 11 months ago

Yes I did it to see how many people believed that Christ was symbolized by such a pagan thing. Your Christian idea of sun god worship is a lie. What evidence do you have to prove that?

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ravenevan: 11 months ago via iPhone

It's not my "christian idea" of sun god worship. It's known, documented history. Here is a tiny start to see the similarities between sun god Horus and Jesus. Horus is also known as Amen-ra which is where Jews and Christians get saying amen to conclude prayers from.
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/origen046.html

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fuzymunky01: 11 months ago

Ahh but you see theres the falseness as seen in catholiscm or Christianity they believe in a tri god which is unbiblical and they believe in the cross which is unbiblical and they believe in the afterlife which is unbiblical. Those doctrines alone are pagan in root. Which aren't a part of the bible.

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ravenevan: 11 months ago via iPhone

So are yours; you've proved nothing. And those concepts can be found in the bible with many others.

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ravenevan: 11 months ago via iPhone

I've enjoyed the conversation but I have to get some sleep.

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fuzymunky01: 11 months ago

Okay well goodnight

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AgNuke: 11 months ago

The written number 1, a capital letter, I and a lower case letter l, are all symbols that use a vertical stroke. My goodness, they must all have the same origin. Seriously, your argument is that since Christianity uses a symbol (a very simple symbol to construct) that is also used by other groups such as you mentioned, it must just be a derivative of those symbols?
The letter X, plus signs, multiplication signs, cross products, the lower case t, cartography symbols, etc all utilize crosses in their symbology. That hardly proves common origin. The cross, in it's simplicity is bound to occur in symbology everywhere. That hardly demonstrates pagan origin.

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ravenevan: 11 months ago via iPhone

AgNuke, well said; thanks for stopping by.

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ninja455: 11 months ago

Well the cross pretty much started with a way of torture. And that is how Jesus was killed but then rose again. So that's pretty much how it started.

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DanielDark: 11 months ago

The christian cross has origins in Rome. The cross was used for slow and painful public executions.

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SockMonkeyTheWise: 11 months ago

Crucifixion. (dying on a cross as a way to execute people)

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Emdog: 11 months ago

The cross was used for executions in Rome to die a slow and painful death. That's how Jesus died.

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fuzymunky01: 11 months ago

Ahhh but in reality the cross is a pagan symbol that predates christ.

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Emdog: 11 months ago

Mostly for crucifixion

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IMAEDDY: 11 months ago via Android | Last edited at 9:47PM on 6/25/2012

The Romans would use it to torture ,and to punish criminals .

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martinezd968: 11 months ago via iPhone

The cross really started in China but it was the Romans that perfected it as a way of execution.

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JesusInc77: 11 months ago via Android | Last edited at 11:30PM on 6/25/2012

The crucifixion of Jesus. He was crucified on a cross, and He died for our sins. The cross is a reminder of the sacrifice that He gave to save us. The Lord is so wonderful!!!! :)

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fuzymunky01: 11 months ago

Your wrong the cross itself is a pagan symbol that predates Christ. When Constantine had a part in forming the catholic religion he included the cross into the worship or belief of Jesus to have it be more appeasing to pagans. Jesus was nailed into a torture stake not a cross.

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JesusInc77: 11 months ago via Android

I'm wrong? Okay...?

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fuzymunky01: 11 months ago

See many people think that christ died on a cross and that there is where the cross originated in Rome. It predates that. Christ did not die on a pagan symbol which is the cross.

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ravenevan: 11 months ago via iPhone

Fuzzy you're wrong. The Romans used crosses. Why don't you stop using ask as a Jehovah's witness soapbox.

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JesusInc77: 11 months ago via Android

@ravenevan
I know right?!

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yirmeyahu: 11 months ago via iPhone

It was a common means of killing prisoners of war in the Ancient Near East and Ancient Far East. The crosses would be hung by roadsides and bodies left indefinitely in order to scare folks into not opposing the empires that had control of the regions.

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strawberrygirl: 11 months ago

Simply put, the meaning of the cross is death. In ancient times (i.e., from about the 6th century BC until the 4th century AD), the cross was an instrument of death by the most torturous and painful of ways. In Christianity, the cross is the intersection of God's love and His justice. The Romans were not picky in regards to how they would crucify people. The Romans used crosses, poles, stakes, upside-down crosses, x-shaped crosses, walls, roofs, etc. Jesus could have been crucified on any of these objects and it would not have affected the perfection or sufficiency of His sacrifice. Jesus died on something and His death is the sole atoning sacrifice for our sins (1 John 2:2). What matters is that Jesus died for our sins and that His death purchased for us eternal life.

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