Path: paganini.bofh.team!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Nightbulb.net" Newsgroups: alt.religion.christian.roman-catholic,alt.bible Subject: Re: The ++CROSS++, Christian symbol or Pagan icon? Followup-To: alt.bible Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2022 03:46:14 -0500 Organization: Mixmin Message-ID: References: <9713khho2ljg7c02uro9ohkonifluncjv4@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2022 09:29:21 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.mixmin.net; posting-host="6166cdce4aee00cbb673c6d34ac8d4035c1dd344"; logging-data="3373959"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@mixmin.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.4.0 Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <9713khho2ljg7c02uro9ohkonifluncjv4@4ax.com> Xref: paganini.bofh.team alt.religion.christian.roman-catholic:1151516 alt.bible:652373 On 10/8/22 09:57, zebra2@windstream.net wrote: > Thus we can see that the first centrury Christians knew that Jesus > died on upright pale or stake and had no reason to use a cross. I already posted a word study debunking this nonsense. The JW exposition of the Biblical Greek is misinformed at best and malicious at worst. Xylon and Stauros definitely did mean 'cross' at the time those words were written. Going back centuries to an earlier meaning, then applying that meaning to the word, is false scholarship. Even without a study of the NT Greek, Jesus himself, and the text of the scripture, prove this JW babble is nonsense. The Xylon is the upright pole on which the Stauros is fastened. The whole implement was called a cross or crux in Latin. Everyone in the Greek-speaking world at that time fully understood Xylon in this context to mean a cross for crucifixion, and not a 'stake' or 'pole' as the JW liars contend. Xylon referred to the whole implement, and everyone hearing the word in connection to capital punishment knew it meant exactly that. It doesn't matter if you call it a tree or a crucifix or a cross or a xylon or a stauros. It's the same thing and means the same thing. Why are you still doing this JW word-smithing after I already clearly debunked it? -- Nightbulb https://blog.nightbulb.net Flip the night switch.