Is it true that Jesus actually died on a stake?

Answer 1

Ohh. A true Vlad Dracula moment. I heard he died in a tragic escalator accident at the mall.

Answer 2

Christian tradition says a cross. Jehovah's Witnesses say a stake. Why would they do that? In all honesty, they didn't make it up. Doing some objective research will reveal that some things done in the name of religeon were not correct, (putting it mildly). This seems to be one of those times.

The practice of the single stake of torture was common practice up to the era of the Roman Empire.

Assyrians- were in the practice of hanging their captives naked on a pointed stake. It would go through the stomach and into the chest cavity. Their reputation won them many a battle before it ever started. Archeology has uncovered several reliefs using this kind of impalement.

The Persians were in the practice of using impalement (the pole) as punnishment. The Phoenicians, The Greeks and The Romans used the same technique of punnishiment using the single pole.

If you can get your hands on a Bible in the original Koine Greek language, you'll see that the Bible writers themselves actuallly used the word which is transliterated, (menaing letter by letter translating) stauros. Stauros and other forms of that are used 79 times. In none of these is a cross beam implied. And this is the same word that is used to describe what Jesus died upon.

The use of a single pole, a stake, in punnishment was such a horific ordeal that it was finally outlawed by Roman Emperor Constantine The Great. He ruled from 306-337 A.D.

So yeah! From what I've checked out he could have been executed on a stake. Of course, lets not get diverted from the real import of his death. He died so that we could have an acceptable relationship with our creator. And yes, His name is Jehovah. JWs didn't invent that either.

Answer 3

In classical Greek the word(stau ros) rendered "torture stake" in the New World Translation Bible primarily denotes an upright stake,or pole and there is no evidence that the writers of the Christian Greek Scriptures used it to designate a stake with a crossbeam.
The book The Non Christian Cross,by John Denham Parsons,states:"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 significance till long afterwards,and became so then,if at all,because,despite the absence of corroborative evidence,it was for some reason or other assumed that the particular stauros upon which Jesus was executed held that particular shape" - London,1896, pp.23,24

It wasnt until the fourth century CE that pagan beliefs were fused in with apostate Christanity that the cross came to be used as the symbol on which Christ was killed.The cross is a pagan symbol and has nothing to do with the death of Christ.Among other pagan teachings that crept into apostate Chrisitanity were the doctrine of the Trinity,hellfire,immortal soul.

So in answer to your question,yes Jesus was executed on an upright piece of wood,a pole.His hands would have been nailed together up above his head and his feet nailed one over the other.

Answer 4

Attis of Phrygia died on a stake. The Christian religion came along many centuries later and copied some of the ideas from that older religion, such as birth on December 25, death and resurrection after three days at Easter, etc.

The stake morphed into the cross of crucifixion but it was not the Latin cross used by both Catholic and Protestant churches today. It was a "T" shaped "cross", not a "+". The only people today who get it right are the Mormons, who never put Latin crosses on their churches. (Just as well they got *something* right.)

Answer 5

Yes. The instrument of Jesus’ death is noted in Bible passages, such as at Matthew 27:32 and 40. There the Greek word stau·ros′ is translated “cross” in various English Bibles. But what did stau·ros′ mean in the first century when the Greek Scriptures were written? An Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words, by W. E. Vine, says: “Stauros . . . denotes, primarily, an upright pale or stake. On such malefactors were nailed for execution. Both the noun [stau·ros′] and the verb stauroō, to fasten to a stake or pale.

Answer 6

because of the fact the " NEW testomony became written in Greek and in classical Greek the be conscious (stau·ros?) rendered “torture stake” in the hot international Translation mostly denotes an upright stake, or pole, and there is not any information that the writers of the Christian Greek Scriptures used it to designate a stake with a crossbeam The e book The Non-Christian pass, by using John Denham Parsons, states: “there's no longer a single sentence in any of the varied writings forming the hot testomony, which, in the unique Greek, bears even oblique information to the top result that the stauros used with regards to Jesus became different than an uncomplicated stauros; much less to the top result that it consisted, no longer of one piece of wood, yet of two products nailed at the same time in the form of a pass. . . . it incredibly is no longer somewhat deceptive upon the portion of our instructors to translate the be conscious stauros as ‘pass’ while rendering the Greek data of the Church into our interior reach tongue, and to assist that action by using putting ‘pass’ in our lexicons because of the fact the meaning of stauros without heavily explaining that that became at any cost no longer the common meaning of the be conscious in the days of the Apostles, did no longer enhance into its usual signification till long afterwards, and grew to enhance into so then, if in any respect, purely because of the fact, inspite of the absence of corroborative information, it became for some reason or different assumed that the particular stauros upon which Jesus became carried out had that distinctive shape.”—London, 1896, pp. 23, 24. Argue approximately all of it you like. I dont get my information from religious Painters from the third Century who weren't there in individual- yet from information from God's be conscious & pupils of the Greek Langauge.

Answer 7

Yes it is...

Act 5:30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.

Act 10:39 And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:

Gal 3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed [is] every one that hangeth on a tree:

The Greek word was mistranslated as cross like others have already pointed out. As it says above, He was made a curse. What is the scripture Paul speaks from?

Deu 21:22-23 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged [is] accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which Yahweh thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance.

This is how it happened to Yahoshua in the scriptures.

Answer 8

No it wasn't a stake, and you never heard that, so why are you saying this?

There was a stand-in who died for him, and it was on a cross. When Jesus appeared a few days later, everybody went wild with amazement and jubilation, thinking he had returned from the dead.

When he actually did die, it was far far away in another land, and many years later.

Answer 9

I believe He died when His heart imploded from the weight of all of our sins.

It is written that no one could take His life from Him. It was His to freely give. If He didn't want to die for our sins, He could stay up on that cross indefinitely.

Answer 10

Jesus Christ dies on the Cross of Calvary