why do Jehova's witnesses beleive Jesus died on one striaght peice of wood instead of a cross?

Answer 1

They are badly misled about a lot of things not just this. Its all in the interruption of the Bible. They use a different translation then other Christians do. I actually feel sorry for JW.

Answer 2

They do because in the original Greek, the word for his impalement is stauros which means stake or tree like the ones used to build fences such as that built around Jerusalem in 70 c.e. The latin version of this word is crux , which later became translated as cross during the time of Constantine. There are at least 8 different forms of crosses, several of which can be seen on the pope's uniform. The ancient Egyptians used an ankh which looks like a cross with a circle. Some think the t design came from the abbreviation of the name Tammuz, a babylonian god who is mentioned in the bible at Ezekiel 8; 14.

Answer 3

The Greek word rendered "cross" in many modern Bibles is "stauros". In classical Greek, it simply means an upright stake or pole. Whether the Romans used crosses to execute their criminals or not, the Biblical use of "stauros" is clear. Jesus died on a stake, not a tree. Danny H shows his vindictiveness for Jehovah's Witnesses in what he says about them. What he does not say is that there are many reference works that agree that "stauros" should be translated "tree" and not "cross." Concerning people like him, I say, consider the source.

Answer 4

There is a book published by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Jehovah's Witnesses called "Reasoning from the Scriptures". Hope you will find the answer you're looking for.

Answer 5

Yes, they do (ex-Jehovah's Witness here). They'll cite a bunch of old Greek words and stuff to prove this, but it just isn't true. Crucifixtion was a very common practice of Roman execution; sometimes they even used a T-shaped cross. This is historical fact. What you're dealing with here from the Witnesses is misinterpretations. Why? Because they use it as a tool to separate themselves from all other religions because they are the only ones that believe this, thus backing their claim to be the one true organization of God, them alone possessing His truth, and no one else.

Answer 6

The Greek word rendered “cross” in many modern Bible versions (“torture stake” in New World Translation) is stau·ros′. In classical Greek, this word meant merely an upright stake, or pale. Later it also came to be used for an execution stake having a crosspiece. The Imperial Bible-Dictionary acknowledges this, saying: “The Greek word for cross, [stau·ros′], properly signified a stake, an upright pole, or piece of paling, on which anything might be hung, or which might be used in impaling fencing in a piece of ground. . . . Even amongst the Romans the crux (from which our cross is derived) appears to have been originally an upright pole.”—Edited by P. Fairbairn (London, 1874), Vol. I, p. 376.
Was that the case in connection with the execution of God’s Son? It is noteworthy that the Bible also uses the word xy′lon to identify the device used. A Greek-English Lexicon, by Liddell and Scott, defines this as meaning: “Wood cut and ready for use, firewood, timber, etc. . . . piece of wood, log, beam, post . . . cudgel, club . . . stake on which criminals were impaled . . . of live wood, tree.” It also says “in the New T, of the cross,” and cites Acts 5:30 and 10:39 as examples. (Oxford, 1968, pp. 1191, 1192) However, in those verses King James Version, Revised Standard Version, Jerusalem B, and Dyinton translate xy′lon as “tree.” (Compare this rendering with Galatians 3:13; Deuteronomy 21:22, 23.)

The book The Non-Christian Cross, by J. D. Parsons (London, 1896), says: “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. . . . It is not a little 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 that was at any rate not the primary meaning of the word in the days of the Apostles, did not become its primary signification till long afterwards, and became so then, if at all, only because, 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.”—Pp. 23, 24; see also The Companion Bible (London, 1885), Appendix No. 162.

Thus the weight of the evidence indicates that Jesus died on an upright stake and not on the traditional cross.
What were the historical origins of Christendom’s cross?

“Various objects, dating from periods long anterior to the Christian era, have been found, marked with crosses of different designs, in almost every part of the old world. India, Syria, Persia and Egypt have all yielded numberless examples . . . The use of the cross as a religious symbol in pre-Christian times and among non-Christian peoples may probably be regarded as almost universal, and in very many cases it was connected with some form of nature worship.”—Encyclopædia Britannica (1946), Vol. 6, p. 753.

“The shape of the [two-beamed cross] had its origin in ancient Chaldea, and was used as the symbol of the god Tammuz (being in the shape of the mystic Tau, the initial of his name) in that country and in adjacent lands, including Egypt. By the middle of the 3rd cent. A.D. the churches had either departed from, or had travestied, certain doctrines of the Christian faith. In order to increase the prestige of the apostate ecclesiastical system pagans were received into the churches apart from regeneration by faith, and were permitted largely to retain their pagan signs and symbols. Hence the Tau or T, in its most frequent form, with the cross-piece lowered, was adopted to stand for the cross of Christ.”—An Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words (London, 1962), W. E. Vine, p. 256.

“It is strange, yet unquestionably a fact, that in ages long before the birth of Christ, and since then in lands untouched by the teaching of the Church, the Cross has been used as a sacred symbol. . . . The Greek Bacchus, the Tyrian Tammuz, the Chaldean Bel, and the Norse Odin, were all symbolised to their votaries by a cruciform device.”—The Cross in Ritual, Architecture, and Art (London, 1900), G. S. Tyack, p. 1.

“The cross in the form of the ‘Crux Ansata’ . . . was carried in the hands of the Egyptian priests and Pontiff kings as the symbol of their authority as priests of the Sun god and was called ‘the Sign of Life.’”—The Worship of the Dead (London, 1904), Colonel J. Garnier, p. 226.

“Various figures of crosses are found everywhere on Egyptian monuments and tombs, and are considered by many authorities as symbolical either of the phallus [a representation of the male sex organ] or of coition. . . . In Egyptian tombs the crux ansata [cross with a circle or handle on top] is found side by side with the phallus.”—A Short History of Sex-Worship (London, 1940), H. Cutner, pp. 16, 17; see also The Non-Christian Cross, p. 183.

“These crosses were used as symbols of the Babylonian sun-god, [See book], and are first seen on a coin of Julius Cæsar, 100-44 B.C., and then on a coin struck by Cæsar’s heir (Augustus), 20 B.C. On the coins of Constantine the most frequent symbol is [See book]; but the same symbol is used without the surrounding circle, and with the four equal arms vertical and horizontal; and this was the symbol specially venerated as the ‘Solar Wheel’. It should be stated that Constantine was a sun-god worshipper, and would not enter the ‘Church’ till some quarter of a century after the legend of his having seen such a cross in the heavens.”—The Companion Bible, Appendix No. 162; see also The Non-Christian Cross, pp. 133-141.

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Answer 7

because its true,the sign of a christian is a fish,the cross is a reversed satanic sign used to misguide the faithful,think about it only satanically misguide people would worship a so called instrument of death.saying that the Jehovah witnesses was a religion created by a Freemason and it is said that Freemasons worship satan at high levels

Answer 8

Jehova's witnesses are just weird! Me I don't believe in god jesus the devil heaven & hell are all mans inventions to keep people in line! And it's still working!

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Answer 9

because they like being different and apart from mainstream christianity so they would argue white was black

Answer 10

Greeting brother in Christ. I am Motombo from church of fish and bread.

Jehova witness eat mushroom from desert with drug in them

Peace and blessing from Motombo