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To: SoothingDave
C'mon now. If that were Diana being crowned with flowers it would be evidence of the pagan origins of Catholicism's Mary worship.

Since it's about Jesus, this has no meaning whatsoever.

Do not fear. The picture angelo posted has nothing to do with messianic belief. The picture angelo posted is pagan. Our Lord was safrificed on an upright pole or a stake.

A tradition of the church which our fathers have inherited, was the adoption of the words "cross" and "crucify". These words are nowhere to be found in the Greek of the NT. These words are mistranslations, a "later rendering," of the Greek words Stauros and Stauroo. Vine's Expository Dictionary of the NT words says, "STAUROS" denotes, primarily, an upright pole or stake...Bothe the noun and the verb stauroo, to fasten to a stake or pole, are originally to be distinguished from the ecclesiastical form of a two beamed cross. The shape of the latter had its origin in ancient Chaldea (Babylon), and was used as the symbol of the god Tammuz (being in the shape of the mystic Tau, the initial of his name) By the middle of the 3rd century A.D. the churces had either departed from, or had travestied, certain doctines of the Christian faith. In order to increase the prestige of the apostate ecclesiatical system pagans were received into 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...

no inconsistency here.

47,597 posted on 04/21/2003 8:04:58 AM PDT by Invincibly Ignorant
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To: Invincibly Ignorant
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BigMack
47,603 posted on 04/21/2003 8:10:51 AM PDT by PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain
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