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Theory 3 > The cross's horizontal piece represents Earth
> The cross's vertical piece represents Heaven
> The part where those two pieces intersects represents the joining of Heaven and Earth
> Putting Jesus over the cross thus hides the connection between Heaven and Earth, as if Jesus is 'blocking' that connection from occurring
Originally posted by Ghostx
Theory 3
> The cross's horizontal piece represents Earth
> The cross's vertical piece represents Heaven
> The part where those two pieces intersects represents the joining of Heaven and Earth
> Putting Jesus over the cross thus hides the connection between Heaven and Earth, as if Jesus is 'blocking' that connection from occurring
"When Pilate, upon hearing him accused by men of the highest standing amongst us, had condemned him to be crucified. . . ."
Josephus, Antiquities 18.64. Josephus in Ten Volumes, vol. 9, Jewish Antiquities, Loeb Classical Library Louis H. Feldman, trans. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1981).
"Nero fastened the guilt [of the burning of Rome] and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus."
Tacitus, Annals 15.44 (c. A.D. 115).
"The Christians, you know, worship a man to this day-the distinguished personage who introduced their novel rites, and was crucified on that account."
Lucian of Samosata, The Death of Peregrine, 11-13 (c. mid-second century).
"on the eve of the Passover Yeshu was hanged."(12)- Yeshu is Joshua in Hebrew. The equivalent in Greek is lesous (13) or Jesus. Being hung on a tree was used to describe crucifixion in antiquity.(14)
12. Talmud, Sanhedrin 43a (probably late second century). It should be noted that Jewish writings of antiquity never denied the existence, miracles, and execution of Jesus. See John P. Meier, A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, 3 vols. (New York: Doubleday, 1991-2001), 1:96-97.
13. Pronounced "ee-ay-soos."
14. Livy 1:26:6ff; Luke 23:39; Galatians 3:13.