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by trouble315 on October 31st, 2009
Is Confucius Satanic by default, because he doesn't blab on and on about God and/or Jesus?
by Want To Sleep With A Miner on July 1st, 2010
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Favorite Verse in the Bible?
by mjohnson22 on January 14th, 2012
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In Genesis when it says "male AND female he created them", is that talking about Lady Gaga?
by Want To Sleep With A Miner on May 28th, 2011
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What bible verse talks about understanding what we don't understand and giving me the strength to get through it or anything like that ?
by kindaneedhelp on July 3rd, 2011
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Using any bible, (KJV,International, Catholic, etc.)Can you prove by text alone that other people existed outside the garden of Eden?
by Anonymous on January 15th, 2012
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Thanks trouble 315...but, did Jesus die on a cross (cross-beam) like we see depicted in pictures?
by vew573 on October 31st, 2009
We are not certain the exact design of the cross. It could look like a lower case t or an upper case T or a scaffold. I once did a sermon series on 9 different cross shapes. Suffice it to say, Jesus died on THE cross just for YOU.
by trouble315 on October 31st, 2009
Here's what I found as to the shape of Jesus instrument of death. The Greek word translated cross is stau-ros which meant an upright stake, or pale. The Imperial Bible Dictionary says: "The Greek word for corss, (stau-ros) properly signified a stake, an upright pole, aor piece of paling, won 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 the cross is derived) appears to have been originally an upright pole." Vol. 1 P. 376
by vew573 on November 19th, 2009
Here's another source that supports this idea. The Book (The Non Christian Cross by J.D. Parsons) 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 efect thatthe stauros used in the case of Jesus was other than an ordinary stauros;much less to theeffect that it consisted, not of one peice of timber, but of two pieces nailed together in the form of a cross...It is not a little misleading on the part of our teachers to translate the word stauros as 'cross' when rendering the Greek documents of the Church into our native tongue.
by vew573 on November 19th, 2009