Re: [RE] The most pagan icon in America: the CROSS.

On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 22:41:17 -0400, [email protected] wrote:

>A cross is an unclean thing because the pagan uses of it in religious
>ceremonies. The Bible says the death instrument of Jesus was a stake
>not a cross. The Greek word the Bible used was "stauros", which in the
>first century meant an upright stake or pole. Look it up!

The cross was an unclean thing because pagans (in this case the
ancient Romans) used it as an instrument of execution, especially for
those who had committed particularly heinous crimes like crimes
against the state. Crucifixion was not only death, it was a
dishonourable and shameful death, and death made anything associated
with it unclean. 

But Jesus, the innocent victim, transformed the cross by his death and
resurrection into what Orthodox Christians refer to as "the honourable
and life-giving cross". The symbol of death with dishonour was
transfigured by one who died on it into a symbol of life and hope.

If you want to call it a "stake", that's OK; you can just translate it
as "the honourable and life-giving stake."



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