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    I converted to Jehovah's Witnesses

    Hello, Your post shows that Romans probably often used to execute criminals on a T-shaped pole, which I had already agreed with. JWs don't say Romans didn't execute people this way, we say that, according to all lexicons available, the words used in the Bible means tree/pole and doesn't...
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    I converted to Jehovah's Witnesses

    Thank you Muhammad_isa
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    I converted to Jehovah's Witnesses

    Thanks!
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    I converted to Jehovah's Witnesses

    Maybe, or maybe not lol Which ideas do you have in mind?
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    I converted to Jehovah's Witnesses

    The main meaning of stauros and xylon is pole or stake, as one can read in lexicons. I agree with you that it can refer to a cross, but that's not what it originally means. The Companion Bible, Appendix 162: "In the Greek N.T. two words are used for 'the cross' on which the Lord was put to...
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    I converted to Jehovah's Witnesses

    Even if a JW didn't agree that Jesus was impaled on a stake but died on a cross instead, it wouldn't change anything. Early Jehovah's Witnesses actually thought he died on a cross by the way. Then in the 1930s, further linguistic research gave evidence that Jesus may not have died on a cross...
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    I converted to Jehovah's Witnesses

    I never said crux doesn't mean cross though. I said that, according to scholars, it doesn't *only* mean cross: "Professor Robin M. Jensen, in her book entitled The Cross: History, Art, and Controversy, says that "stauros (Latin = crux) did not necessarily imply [a cross]. Historically both...
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    I converted to Jehovah's Witnesses

    Not to me "Scholars have long known that the Latin word crux did not uniquely mean a cross. " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_of_Jesus%27_crucifixion#Presence_or_absence_of_crossbar
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    I converted to Jehovah's Witnesses

    Sorry, here's a screenshot of a passage from the article Stauros and Xylon did not originally mean cross, as you can see with these referrences: Strong’s Greek Dictionary: 4716. Stauros "A stake or post (as set upright), i.e. (specially), a pole or cross (as an instrument of capital...
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    I converted to Jehovah's Witnesses

    Hi RJM, thanks for the question. Maybe Jesus was executed on a cross, or maybe he wasn’t. But the fact is that the original words used for the instrument of the death of Jesus mean ‘tree’ (xylon) or ‘pole’ (stauros). It says nothing about its shape, so Jehovah’s Witnesses stand by the text...
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    I converted to Jehovah's Witnesses

    Ask me anything about my beliefs, if you want I will do my best to answer
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