Did Jesus really die on a Cross?
Pagan Romans used the cross! The Companion Bible says: "These crosses were used as symbols of the Babylonian sun-god.
.
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and are first seen on a coin of Julius Caesar, 100-44 B.
C.
, and then on a coin struck by Caesar s...
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Did Jesus really die on a Cross?
Pagan Romans used the cross! The Companion Bible says: "These crosses were used as symbols of the Babylonian sun-god.
.
.
and are first seen on a coin of Julius Caesar, 100-44 B.
C.
, and then on a coin struck by Caesar s heir (Augustus), 20 B.
C.
" The
Roman nature-god Bacchus was at times represented with a headband containing a number of crosses.
In 312 C.
S.
, Constantine, headed out to war against his brother-in-law, Maxentius, of Italy.
En route he reportedly saw a
vision-a cross on which were the words "Hoc vince," meaning, "By this conquer.
" After his victory, Constantine made the
cross the standard of his armies.
When Christianity later became the state religion of the Roman Empire, the cross became
the symbol of the church.
But did such a vision actually take place? Accounts of this legend are, at best, secondhand and full of discrepancies.
Frankly,
it would be difficult to find a more unlikely candidate for -a divine revelation than
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