EuroChristianAnon here:
Just recently I find out that the word CROSS does not appear in the Bible…ANYWHERE!
This was pretty choking for me. A good part of my family are devoted Catholics and they take it very seriously. I'm trying to red pill them, but it's being very hard.
Here some verses:
"And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the TREE (greek word: ξύλου-xylou), and laid him in a sepulchre." - Acts 13:29
"And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a TREE (ξύλου-xylou):" - Acts 10:39
"…was there the TREE (ξύλου-xylou) of life…leaves of the TREE (ξύλου-xylou) were for the healing of the nations." - Revelations 22:2
The official translation/definition for the greek word ξύλου-xylou is:
Short Definition:
timber (as fuel or material); by implication, a stick, club or tree or other wooden article or substance.
Detailed Definition:
1. wood
A.that which is made of wood
i.as a beam from which any one is suspended, a gibbet, a cross
ii.a log or timber with holes in which the feet, hands, neck of prisoners were inserted and fastened with thongs
iii.a fetter, or shackle for the feet
iv. a cudgel, stick, staff
2.a tree
Generally translated by:
staff, stocks, tree, wood
Note: Out of 38 of the most popular Bible translations current avalible only 10 uses (incorrectly) the word "Cross" in the verses where the word Xylou apear.
Jesus said: "Don't be deceived…" Now I realize that these words have never been so relevant in our times.