(February 27, 2015 at 4:17 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Jesus was crucified was he not?
That's kind of what the article is addressing, among other uncertainities about Jesus.
Quote:The Romans did not have a standard way of crucifying prisoners, and Josephus tells us that during the siege of Jerusalem, soldiers nailed or tied their victims in a variety of positions. Early Christians may have centered on the vertical pole with a crossbeam because it echoed the Egyptian ankh, a symbol of life, or the Sumerian symbol for Tammuz, or because it simply was more artistically and symbolically distinctive than the alternatives.
(February 27, 2015 at 4:17 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: doesn't matter if you mentioned it or not (which YOU did) that's what were discussing.
Yes, I did and that's my point. I meant that you said "we" should brush up on "our" Latin when I was the only one using the word crucifix. It has little to do witht he discussion, though, so let's drop it.
(February 27, 2015 at 4:17 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Exactly! so the common depiction of the cross would fall under that definition wouldn't it?
I don't know what your point is. That the bible says Jesus was crucified? Yes, it does. And?