What were the historical orgins of the Christian cross?

Question

Cross is it what Jesus died on?
Gal. 3:13 KJV Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. For it is written cursed is every man hangeth upon a tree.
Acts 5:30 The god of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.
this made me wonder was Jesus really hung on a stake or a cross.
From what I have found out that was from a pagan religon that dated way before Jesus time.


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

Do you know of any I have missed?

Answer 1

You already know the answer.

Jesus was executed on an upright stake or pole.

The 'cross' didn't become recognized as a christian symbol until emperor Constantine (a non-christian) used it to rally people to his side to win a war. I think that was about 400 years after Jesus' death.

But, whatever it was, I am fairly certain that the early church didn't wear replicas of it around their necks are hung from their walls.

Oh, various crosses have been in use as religious symbols long before the Romans and others used them to torture people.

Answer 2

i'm a neopagan. i'm also a highly knowledgeable neopagan. because i'm knowledgeable and understand how religions strengthen and how Christianity and different present day religions and philosophies stepped ahead, i will very with slightly of success say that Christian beliefs do not come from pagan beliefs. the vacation journeys at the instantaneous are not "pagan" blah blah blah. this question and a rant that solutions it (with Disinformation) looks on solutions numerous cases a week. if you're a Christian and celebrate Christmas, you're certainly celebrating the start of Christ--not Horus or the go back of the daylight or Saturn or in spite of. It does not count number a whit if another subculture previous or cutting-edge celebrates something else on that day. in case you opt on make such statements, flow to varsity and study historic historic past, the style of the Abrahamic religions, and the shift from polytheism to henotheism, to monotheism contained in the Western international and then you'd be qualified. to ask and expound on why or why not Christian believes have a pagan starting place (which they don't).

Answer 3

I'm just guessing, but this sounds like a question was asked to bait non-Jehovah's Witnesses rather than to get an answer. You quote the Bible to back up the idea that Christ was not executed on a cross. What about all the references in that same Bible that say he was nailed to a cross? I would say the historical origin of the Christian cross was the cross to which Christ was actually nailed, on which he hung, and on which he died.

Answer 4

Historically speaking, the cross was not a symbol of religion but a symbol of fear and control (which one could argue are one and the same) being that the Romans used the cross as an agent of capital punishment.

Answer 5

The cross was not originally a Christian idol. Originally, it was a torture method for criminals in the Roman Empire, as it was when Jesus was crucified.

Answer 6

Cross represents the division of four elements, the world, ... (pre-christanity, ancient times)

Well you get the idea. That's its origin