If Jesus were stoned to death, would you wear a bag of rocks around your neck?

Answer 1

Hysterical! I wouldn't wear the rocks - because I'm not a Christian. But I remember sitting around with some friends about 20 years ago saying that if Jesus came today - people would wear little electric chairs around their necks. And ..... "How do you make the sign of the electric chair?" Actually - if Jesus came today and were put to death - the Christians would wear hypodermic needles around their necks!! Personally - the cross has always creeped me out a bit. Rocks probably would too.

Answer 2

Good question. Why would anyone who does not believe in Jesus Christ wear a cross?
Why not wear a mini gallows around ones neck? They are both implements of execution.

Answer 3

People, mostly women wear stones around their neck all the time... gem stones that is. Yes... this answer is about as silly as the question!!!

Answer 4

this is kind of lame on one point, however, i see that this could also be a good argument for why people wear a cross around their necks, if you notice a majority of the religious leaders do not wear them, with the exception of the catholics

Answer 5

Great to wear out for a night on the town or maybe fine dining with a silk flowing dress.

Answer 6

I do appreciate that question as it brings to light how crazy it is for people to wear the torture device around thier neck that the founder of Christianity was hung on!

Like.....you child is killed in a drive by shooting so you wear a replica of a 9mm handgun on a chain around your neck!

To be sure check out the info I found regarding the cross. What was Christ impaled upon? mmm......

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

Or they might have stuck with the Icthus, or stepped ahead another image. The stone would honestly be really a competent image on your project because it would have duel signifigence - the device of the "redemptive lack of life," and an emblem of the stone roled faraway from the tomb.

Answer 8

No , but we will give you the honor. Mudcat needs to wear the bag of rocks around his neck. That would keep Mudcat in his own dirty water.

Answer 9

Jesus died from having nails driven through his wrists and ankles, and you don't see anyone wearing a bag of nails around their neck. You need to get your story straight.

Answer 10

Jesus is a recent Deity in history. There were many, many more deities before he came on the scene of history.
No rocks for me.