2007-11-24 11:20:17 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
whatever .
2007-11-24 11:23:21 · update #1
HAHAHAHAHAHA, ummm, I mean - No.
Sorry, but this entire story has been done to death throughout history: Mithra, Horus etc. etc.
2007-11-24 11:23:24 · answer #1 · answered by Enigma®Ragnarökin' 7 · 4⤊ 6⤋
You are correct, it was a pole, upright stake and not a cross. Good job!
The Greek word rendered “cross” in many modern Bible versions (“torture stake” in NW) 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.
“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.”
2007-11-24 19:26:31 · answer #2 · answered by Just So 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A pilot with no sense of self preservation is dangerous to the passengers too!
2007-11-24 19:35:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I certainly do.
It was a cross, by the way.
Would you not trust someone who loved you enough to die for you? I do.
He's done a darn good job of being my pilot for 52 years. I tried to do it on my own for some time and messed things up.
In fact, I'd rather be the co-pilot and let him take over.
2007-11-24 19:24:52 · answer #4 · answered by batgirl2good 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
No, but I trust Jesus who was nailed to a cross and then rose from the dead 3 days later.
The part about rising from the dead is what sets Jesus apart from all the others.
More than 500 different people saw him alive on a single occasion.
Pastor Art
2007-11-24 19:41:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
If you are refering to Jesus then no, I want Him to be my pilot not my co-pilot because He guides me with everything that I do and I am behind Him all the way!!! He is in control!!!
2007-11-24 19:25:09 · answer #6 · answered by man_of_faith 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Well His arms are in the right position.
2007-11-24 19:24:44 · answer #7 · answered by Chapter and Verse 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Since he proved himself trustworthy in part by being nailed there so I don't have to be punished as I deserve to be (and you deserve to be, as well), YES - I trust him!
2007-11-24 19:24:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
Um....I don't like the phrase: "Jesus is my co-pilot". If Jesus is your co-pilot, then you're in the wrong seat! HE is the PILOT--NOT you!
2007-11-24 19:26:08 · answer #9 · answered by Jesus thinks I am cool! I am His 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Our Blessed Lord willingly died for us a terrible death on the cross for our salvation. I put my full trust in him and yes he guides me every moment of my life.
Blessed be God forever.
best wishes
Star
2007-11-24 19:25:32 · answer #10 · answered by Star of the sea 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Yes.
2007-11-24 19:25:15 · answer #11 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋