5 天之前 · The cross remains as you said, as a symbol of the degradation and suffering that Jesus submitted his body as a sacrifice for the sins of humanity. The cross with or without the body of Christ, is a symbol of Jesus sacrificed, and of Christ resurrected, becoming Jesus Christ

2025年1月11日 · The Cross also is unripe and slender like the lotus, upon which a King was hung, which also acts as a shade tree of sorts to which all the nations press upon (cf. the Cross with Lamentations 4:20). And yet, the Cross, the slender and unripe oak of the King, (revealed by Scripture as the acacia,) which is pressed, and holds a remarkable and ...

2024年9月24日 · But the cross had nothing to do with Jesus Christ. The New Catholic Encyclopedia explains: “The cross is found in both pre-Christian and non-Christian cultures.” Jesus did not die on a cross. The Greek words translated “cross” basically mean “an upright stake,” “a timber,” or “a tree.”

2024年8月17日 · With the cross image, they remind you how they co-opted the teachings and legacy of the real Jeshua Ben Joseph, the authentic Jesus Christ in order to create their own evil power structures. With the symbol of the bloody corpse on the cross, they’re saying in effect: “Look you suckers, we tortured and murdered your saviour and then co-opted ...

2024年3月14日 · The cross is the ultimate symbol for the crucifixion of Christ. I give out pennies with the cross punched in them and tell people whether you are an atheist, Muslim, Moonie, etc. you still know what that symbol means. So Christ did not die on a tree, pole, a ‘T’, but on a cross so that symbol would withstand the test of time.

2024年8月6日 · The second device added to the cross was the suppedaneum, or foot support. It was less painful than the sedile, but it also prolonged the victim’s agony. Ancient historians record many cases in which the victim stayed alive on the cross for two or three or more days with the use of a suppedaneum. The church father Origen writes of having seen ...

2024年9月14日 · In a Christian context, whether in art or in literature, the sacrifice of Isaac directly refers to the salvation offered by the vicarious sacrifice of Christ on the cross. In a Jewish context, the image underscores the place of the Akedah as a meritorious act that can be shared with the people of Israel, reassuring the community that, although ...

2024年8月8日 · Oddly enough, the December 20 total eclipse is about 15 months and 3 days prior an ancient testified day for March 23, 30 A.D. being both the 14th of Nisan until sunset, and the day Christ was Crucified. Lactantius, On the Manner in which the Persecutors Died, .1 indicated; being the 10th of the Kalends of April or March 23 [30 A.D.]..

2024年11月13日 · Significantly, five were women, confirming their importance in this early Christian community. One inscription recognizes a woman named Akeptous and contains the abbreviated words “God Jesus Christ”—an early affirmation of Jesus’s divinity, officially decreed by church authorities a century later.

2024年3月21日 · The oracles were preserved by Christians who believed they gave pagan testimony to the true religion and to Christ. 5. Although composed after the event, it is written as a prediction: An evil storm of war will also come upon Jerusalem from Italy, and it will sack the great Temple of God … A leader of Rome [Titus] will come … who will burn