THE PAGAN CROSS

THE PAGAN CROSS

"In the Egyptian churches, the cross was a pagan symbol...
borrowed by the Christians and interpreted in the pagan manner."
- The Encyclopœdia Britannica.

"THE sign of the cross has been a symbol of great antiquity,
present in nearly every known culture.  The universal use of
the sign of the cross makes more poignant the striking lack
of crosses in early Christian remains, especially any specific
reference to the event on Golgotha. Most scholars now agree
that the cross, as an artistic reference to the passion event,
cannot be found prior to the time of Constantine."
—Ante Pacem—
Archaeological Evidence of Church Life Before Constantine
(1985), by Professor Graydon F. Snyder, pg 27.

CONTROVERSY  OVER  THE  ADOPTION
OF  THE  WORD  "CROSS"

"There is not a single sentence in any of the
numerous writings forming the New Testament,
which, in the original Greek, bears even indirect
evidence to the effect that the stauros used
in the case of Jesus was other than an ordinary
stauros; much less to the effect that it consisted,
not of one piece of timber, but of two pieces
nailed together in the form of a cross..."
— The book The Non-Christian Cross,
by J. D. Parsons (London, 1896),
Pp. 23, 24;
see also The Companion Bible
(London, 1885), Appendix No. 162.

"It is misleading upon the part of our teachers
to translate the word stauros as 'cross' when
rendering the Greek documents of the Church
into our native tongue, and to support that action
by putting 'cross' in our lexicons as the meaning
of stauros - without carefully explaining that
it was at any rate not the primary meaning of the
word in the days of the Apostles, and did not become
its primary meaning till long afterwards."
— The book The Non-Christian Cross,
by J. D. Parsons (London, 1896),
Pp. 23, 24;
see also The Companion Bible
(London, 1885), Appendix No. 162.

"Despite the absence of corroborative evidence,
it was for some reason or other assumed that the
particular stauros upon which Jesus was executed
had that particular shape."
— The book The Non-Christian Cross,
by J. D. Parsons (London, 1896),
Pp. 23, 24;
see also The Companion Bible
(London, 1885), Appendix No. 162.

"Lipsius and other writers speak of the
single upright stake to which criminals
were bound as a cross, and to such a stake
the name of crux simplex has been applied."
- The Encyclopædia Britannica,
   11th Edition

"The evidence is thus complete,
that the Lord was put to death upon
an upright stake, and not on two pieces
of timber placed at any angle."
- The Companion Bible Part V.
The Gospels,
published by the Oxford University Press, 
Appendix No. 162 -
 entitled "The Cross and Crucifixion"
 (page 186).

"If Paganism was conquered by Christianity,
it is equally true that Christianity was
corrupted by Paganism...Many of the pagan tenets,
invented by the Egyptians and idealized by Plato,
were retained as being worthy of belief."
- The History of Christianity,
   by Peter Eckler  

"Trees were not everywhere available
at the places chosen for public execution.
So a simple beam was sunk into the ground.
On this the outlaws, with hands raised upward
and often also with their feet, were bound
or nailed." 
- Das Kreuz und die Kreuzigung
(The Cross and the Crucifixion),
by Hermann Fulda, Breslau, 1878, p. 109

 "Jesus died on a simple death-stake:
In support of this there speak (a) the then
customary usage of this means of execution
in the Orient, and (b) indirectly the history
itself of Jesus' sufferings and (c) many
expressions of the early church fathers."
- - Das Kreuz und die Kreuzigung
(The Cross and the Crucifixion),
by Hermann Fulda, Breslau, 1878,
pp. 219, 220

"The cross was not originally a Christian symbol;
it is derived from Egypt and Constantine."
- Dual Heritage—
The Bible and the British Museum

"Crosses, moreover, we neither worship nor wish for.
You, indeed, who consecrate gods of wood,
adore wooden crosses perhaps as parts of
your gods...Your victorious trophies not only
imitate the appearance of a simple cross,
but also that of a man affixed to it."
(The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 4, p. 191)

Rosary Beads /Prayer Beads
Their pagan origins
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 Idolatry in Action
Idols take many shapes and forms
(click-here) for eye-opening Idols

THE  WORD  "CROSS"
IS  A  MISTRANSLATION
OF  "STAUROS"  AND   "XYLON"
LITERALLY   MEANS  "STAKE"
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The Snake and The Cross
What is The Connection ?
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