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As is widely known, the Watchtower Society insists that Jesus did not die on a two-beamed cross but on a single-timber 'torture stake'. I agree with most people that this issue is pretty pointless and amounts only to a historical curiosity. As most Christians of faith would say, 'It doesn’t matter what he died on; it matters that he died for us'. The purpose of this discussion is not to detract from that theological issue but instead to show that this subject is yet another instance of the Society’s intellectual dishonesty and failure to represent the sources they quote. It will also provide a fairly interesting survey of what is historically known about the most heinous form of capital punishment in the Roman world.
The principal argument the Society furnishes is a linguistic one: that the Greek terms stauros and xulon and the Latin term crux (which translates stauros in the Latin Vulgate) did not mean 'cross' in the first century. If the words used by the Bible writers referred only to a simple single-timber stake, then Jesus would not have died on a stake that had a crossbeam. So where Christendom get the idea that Jesus was put to death on a cross? The Society claims that the"
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