======== EARLY CHRISTIANS NEVER USED CROSS::

Answering Christanity

‏7 مارس، 2013‏، الساعة ‏09:34 م‏ · 

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Elizabeth Gallegos It was the original Christmas tree that set us free....Yes the cross.

To me the cross will always be the original Christmas tree because Christ came to this earth for the very purpose of giving His life upon that tree at Calvary... the cross.............[{(blah blah blah)}..goes on & on]..........//

____________THE REALITY OF CROSS______________

the Roman God Bacchus, the Wine God, who was equivalent to Dionysus of the Greeks, was depicted on a cross, in the same pose as Christ would be later on (when the Church would adopt the Cross). It is known that such depictions of pagan Gods in the early Greco-Roman world completely determined how Christ was presented.
The Chi-Rho emblem, considered the first Christian Cross, was also a pre-Christian symbol: the original Chi-ro signified good fortune.

::::::::::::::::THE TRUTH ABOUT CROSS::::::::::::

#---The church did not adopt the cross until about the 6th century (New Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 4, p. 475).

#---The word 'cross' was later substituted for the word 'stake' in the rewriting of the Christian text (Crosses In Tradition, W.W.Seymour N.Y. 1898).

#---Christian archives record that the general use of the crucifix became ratified at the Sixth Ecumenical Council in 680 (Canon 82).

#---The council decreed that 'the figure of a man fastened to a cross be now adopted'.
This new church logo was later confirmed by Pope Hadrian I (772-795).

##== Early Biblical texts claim that Christ was crucified by a stake, not cross:

It is not likely that Jesus actually hung on a cross at all but instead hung on a tree, stake, or pole. The original gospels written in Greek used the word "stauros" to refer to the structure used for execution. This word means a vertical pole with no crossbar. Jesus may have been hung on a tree (Acts 5:30) (1 Peter 2:24)

========== GOD HATES:::::::

Deuteronomy 21:23 states that a person hung on a tree was cursed by God.

PLZ DONT TELL ME,GOD CURSED GOD!!

======== EARLY CHRISTIANS NEVER USED CROSS::

Although a stake called a stauros (the Greek term used in the earliest Bible writings but where English versions incorrectly translate it to "cross") got used to execute criminals, there exists not a shred of evidence that a Biblical stauros describes a cross or even a T-shape.

There occurs no cross in early Christian art before the middle of the 5th century, where it (probably) appears on a coin in a ppainting. The first clear crucifix appears in the late 7th century. Early Christians usually depicted their religion with a fish symbol (ichthus), dove, or bread of the Eucharist, but never Christ on a cross (or on a stick).