Crosses, Stakes and other means whereby the bodies of Christians were suspended, Book 1 in series of 9, 31 pages
| Title | : | CROSSES AND STAKES: TORTURE OF CHRISTIAN MARTYRS (Tortures of Christian Martyrs Book 1) |
| Author | : | D.C. Robinson |
| Language | : | en |
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The breaking wheel, also known as the ‘catherine wheel’, was a torture device used for capital punishment. It was used during the middle ages and was still in use in the 19th century. It originated in ancient greece and from there spread through other countries such as france, russia, germany, spain, portugal and sweden.
The victim would be laid down on his belly with his hands tied behind his back and his rectum would be slit up by a razor, after which a paste would be applied to stop the bleeding before a stake would be thrusted into his body. The stake would be hammered in with a mallet, and it would come out at either his breast, head, or shoulders.
The stake tares through his innards and a thick stream of mucus trickles down to the ground. The man cries out like a newborn and gasps like a wild beast from weakness, pain, and humiliation. He dies at daybreak and the crows flock to his glazed-over eyes.
Yet nearly every english bible says that jesus was killed on a cross, and the verb justus lipsius 1594 de cruce p 10 torture stake - stauros - wikipedia.
Crucifixion was the perfect blend of death, vengeance, spectacle and terror. Soldiers taunted and further tortured the dying, often driving stakes through body parts associated with the victim's crimes.
The cross is a mark, a symbol, it is put on the forehead of those who belong to the kingdom of the beast, it is put on the right hand, sometimes as a tatoo, it can be seen in these days, on ash wednesday people that follow the ways of the beast are marked with black ashes on the forehead with the mark of the cross, apersinar means to mark oneself with the mark of the cross.
An instrument such as that on which jesus christ met death by impalement. ( mt 27:32-40; mr 15:21-30; lu 23:26; joh 19:17-19, 25) in classical greek the word ( staurosʹ) rendered “torture stake” in the new world translation primarily denotes an upright stake, or pole, and there is no evidence that the writers of the christian greek scriptures used it to designate a stake with a crossbeam.
Torture methods are known to be brutal ways of enforcing punishment and squeezing out the truth from perpetrators. And throughout the years, people have come up with new ways to perform these torturous acts– probably hoping to obtain the truth efficiently or just to satisfy their sick pleasures.
In fact, so pervasive and resolute is their denial of the cross that their own bible version, the new world translation, goes so far as to translate “cross” and “crucify” as “torture stake” and “impale. ” the fathers had quite a different view of the instrument of jesus’ death.
Likely to have entries on crime and punishment than torture, and these stake, supported by the cross-beam, and prolonging the agony with as much.
The english word crucifixion (pronounced krü-se-fik-shen) comes from the latin crucifixio, or crucifixus, meaning fix to a cross. Crucifixion was a form of torture and execution used in the ancient world. It involved binding a person to a wooden post or tree using ropes or nails. Other terms for crucifixion are death on a cross, and hanging on a tree.
Another torture supported by nero involved the accused digging his own grave. If his crime was minor, he would be pushed so that the stake pierced through his heart.
The tortured person was stretched out on a rack, tied by the ankles and wrists across a flat board that had rollers at both sides. The torture rack operator would then turn the rollers at each side; immense pain was transmitted to the victim as the pulling mechanism of the torture device dislocated every joint in a person’s body.
Disturbing footage appears to show the torture of four women suspected of witchcraft in a papau new guinea. Share this video: shocking footage shows women being tortured for 'witchcraft'.
One reason may be that most of the victims were greco-roman pagans, who generally practiced cremation, not burial, in the case of the few victims returned to a family for funerary rituals. However, many, perhaps the majority, were deliberately left on the cross (or stake) to decompose, adding to the indignity and the warning to passers-by.
This word has been consistently translated in the new world translation as torture stake and never as cross. It is the implement on which jesus christ was afixed and executed. It is the implement on which jesus christ was afixed and executed.
The original sense of crux in classical latin was an instrument of torture, whether gibbet, cross, or stake. With this in mind, english borrowed crux in the sense of 'a puzzling or difficult problem'.
It refers to “a stake sunk into the earth in an upright position; a cross-piece was often attached to its upper part” (bag). It may be a vertical pointed stake, an upright with a crossbeam above it, or a post with an intersecting beam of equal length” (kittle’s tdnt abridged).
Mar 25, 2016 the apprehending, torturing, scourging, and crucifying of christ was depicted in deadly detail.
Rat torture apparently lives on in the minds of creative types, as it has been featured recently in the film 2 fast 2 furious and in the tv series game of thrones. In this terrifying (and, i’ll admit, creative) form of torture, a hungry and/or diseased rat is placed in a bucket on the victim’s bare stomach or chest.
In fact, humiliation and suffering were important aspects of torture and execution, and no one did this better than the ancient chinese. They were highly creative and seriously sadistic in their methods, and liked to do things slow and steady, often prolonging death for days.
The word cross in the new testament comes from the greek word stauros. The study of word origins shows that stauros simply means stake or pole. This word was used in literature in reference to pieces of wood of various shapes, including those with crosspieces.
Burning at the stake burning at the stake was a very common way to execute blasphemers, thieves and witches. If the fire was big enough, death occurred first by asphyxia rather than damage done by the flames.
Transcript for scenes of 'sadistic' torture captured on tape arkady in his camera were present when they unit methodically prepared to torture this.
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The rendering of the greek word staurosʹ, meaning an upright stake or pole, such as the one on which jesus was executed. There is no evidence that the greek word meant a cross, such as the pagans used as a religious symbol for many centuries before christ. “torture stake” conveys the full intent of the original word, since the word staurosʹ is also used to indicate the torture, suffering, and shame that jesus’ followers would face.
Jun 10, 2013 jehovah's witnesses (jws) argue that the greek word for cross – stauros – in classical greek means an upright stake.
Impalement, as a method of execution and also torture, is the penetration of a human by an object such as a stake, pole, spear, or hook, often by complete or partial perforation of the torso. It was used particularly in response to crimes against the state and regarded across a number of cultures as a very harsh form.
There is a certain cabal of believers and cultists who insist that christ was executed not on a cross but rather on a torture stake (which is depicted as jesus hanging from a vertical pole with both hands fixed together above his head with one nail, and his feet nailed together with a single nail).
Why this matters the most is because of christian cult groups (deceived by satan) that claim 1) that this is a matter worth dividing the body of christ over, 2) that.
Medieval torture reached its peak in the 12th century and by the time that the 14th century appeared torture had become much more sophisticated with the advancement of medieval torture devices. From about the middle of the 14th century until the end of the 18th century torture was a very common activity.
A woman suspected of witchcraft is tightly bound, stripped of all her clothes, and stretched across and torture table in an obscene position. Executors take hold of wooden, oblong objects, not always anatomical in shape, and mimic sexual penetration.
Crucifixion was an ancient method of execution practiced in the roman empire and neighboring mediterranean cultures, such as the persian empire, where a person was nailed to a large wooden cross or stake and left to hang until dead.
Four basic structures or types of crosses were used for crucifixion: crux simplex (a single upright stake), crux commissa (a capital t-shaped structure), crux decussata (an x-shaped cross), and crux immissa (the familiar lower case t-shaped structure of jesus' crucifixion).
Certain cults, most notably the jehovah’s witnesses, are adamant that jesus did not die on a cross and that the cross is in fact a pagan symbol. Their insistence on this point is curious, given the ambiguity of the greek word. But they have worded their new world translation to say that jesus died on a “torture stake” rather than a cross.
Did jesus die on a cross or a torture stake? page 4 of 11 archeological proof for a cross. Historical findings have substantiated the traditional cross. It is a drawing of a crucified ass; a mockery of a christian prisoner who worships christ.
Mar 5, 2019 the purpose of torture “was not to obtain the actual truth,” writes expected to confess to: renouncing christ and spitting on the cross. Jacques de molay was ordered burned at the stake by king philip iv of france.
The romans, like the greeks, used torture during interrogations. Until the second century ce, torture was used only on slaves (with a few exceptions). After this period, torture also concerned the lower social strata. The slave's testimony was considered true under roman law only during torture.
Regardless of whether the instrument on which jesus did die was a stake or cross, the entire world should appreciate and accept the sacrifice he made on our behalf. He humbled and abased himself by undergoing a particularly cruel, painful, and disreputable form of capital punishment in order to save us all from our sins.
Also, since a cross contains a stake [the vertical beam], all stakes must be a cross this is a favorite tactic of the islamic awareness team – broaden the definition.
), or it consisted of an upright with a cross-beam above it (t, crux commissa), or it consisted of two intersecting beams of equal (†, crux immissa).
But one of the more curious doctrines of the watchtower is the view that jesus died, not on a cross, but on a “torture stake. ” according to watchtower publications, “no biblical evidence even intimates that jesus died on a cross. Jesus most likely was executed on an upright stake without any crossbeam.
Crucifixion was among the most gruesome and painful of ancient execution methods and was practiced from about the 6th century bc until the 4th century ad, mainly among the seleucids, carthaginians, persians and romans. The condemned person was tied (or nailed) to a large wooden cross and left to hang till dead.
Crux “torture stake” in mt 27:40 is used in connection with the execution of jesus at calvary, that is, skull place. There is no evidence that the greek word staurosʹ here meant a cross such as the pagans used as a religious symbol for many centuries before christ.
Mar 25, 2014 ⛪ of the cross, of stakes, and other means by which the bodies of the christians remaining steadfast in their faith were suspended.
The jehovah's witnesses state that jesus was not nailed on a cross, but on a torture stake. The new world translation of the bible is phrased accordingly.
Many pirates experienced or witnessed various forms of torture at some point in their lives before going on the account, and just as law-abiding citizens tortured people, so did pirates. Nestled among the books on my library shelves is john swain’s the pleasures of the torture chamber.
It shows christ on a cross, not a pole or a 'torture stake', with his arms out-stretched to the left and the right. The fact that it was not drawn by a christian adds to its significance as an independent indication of the nature of crucifixion and that this was the way that christ died.
It is entirely plausible, though, that jesus was nailed to the stake with one hand on one side of the stake and the other hand on the other side, with one nail for each hand. For those who may not be familiar with the book, the two babylons which was written by alexander hislop over 150 years ago, it goes into great detail to reveal the pagan origin of not only the cross, but most of what passes for christianity.
Fifteen years after a horrifying experience of abduction and prolonged torture, lucie embarks on a bloody quest for revenge against her oppressors. Along with her childhood friend, anna, who also suffered abuse, she quickly descends, without hope, into madness and her own delusions.
The watch tower society used to affirm the cross of christ (for 40+ years) but then later changed it into a torture stake (around 1936).
Dec 10, 2016 jehovah's witness changed the word cross to torture stake and the word crucified to impaled in their new world translation of the bible.
It was at one time the primary method used to tortured and kill countless numbers of slaves. Crucifixion didn’t always involve nailing the accused to a cross. Sometimes, the accused was stripped, his head was covered, and he was tied down onto a cross or fork.
The greek word translated cross in the english bible is stauros, a word that can be translated as a cross or wooden pole or stake. The details of the gospel accounts simply note that simon from cyrene carried the cross of jesus and that an inscription was hung above the cross.
Galatians 6:14 “never may it occur that i should boast, except in the torture stake [cross] of our lord jesus christ, through whom the world has been impaled [crucified] to me and i to the world.
A curious fact: some prisoners, condemned to impalement by stake, gnawed through their tongue and veins, or smashed their skulls on a sharp edge of a wall. They chose suicide, in order not to deliver themselves unto such a monstrous sentence.
The greek word stauroo, which is translated “crucify,” means “to be attached to a pole or cross. Outside of the bible, the same verb was also used in the context of putting up a fence with stakes. Though stauros can mean either “pole” or “stake,” many scholars argue that jesus most likely died on a cross in which the upright beam projected above the shorter crosspiece.
It is believed to have been made of solid wood so the whole cross is estimated to be over 300 pounds (136 kilograms) while the crossbar is estimated to be around 70 -90 pounds (32-41 kilograms) weakened by the torture, scourging, humiliation and beatings, carrying even a crossbar would have been too much for jesus.
This torture stake theory, started by rutherford, would be clarified over the next several decades. In 1972, the watchtower wrote an article discussing christian cross came to be accepted by professed christians. After being led to adopt the cross as a sacred symbol, professed christians began depicting the body of one crucified thereon.
Charles taze russell, the founder of the religion did believe jesus died on the cross. Judge rutherford, the second president of the watchtower bible and tract society, changed the belief to its current position on this matter. In the nwt, john 20:24, 25 makes it clear that jesus died on a cross, not a torture stake.
Jul 1, 2010 for 2000 years the crucifix has been a potent symbol of both jesus christ's death and the religion which sprung up in its aftermath.
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The cross was a symbol of reproach, degradation, humiliation, and disgust.
There are other films whose torture scenes are pretty tough but i personally didn't like on the whole. Snuff 102 (2008), srpski film (2010), cannibal holocaust (1980), salò o le 120 giornate di sodoma (1975), the human centipede (2009) the movies were listed according to their imdb rating.
Jehovah’s witnesses: a cross or a torture stake? you know the watchtower claims that christ wasn’t hung on a cross but on a pole. They throw rocks at all the other christian religions for teaching that jesus was crucified.
Believing the cross to be non-scriptural and pagan, the watchtower society teaches their loyal followers that jesus died on a torture stake. The objective in discussing this subject is not to place emphasis upon how jesus christ was executed, more importantly that he was, regardless as to which instrument.
Despite the horror of simply being burned at the stake, the torturers of the inquisition in the netherlands developed a particularly cruel twist: prior to being tied to the stake, the victim's tongue would be sandwiched between two hot iron plates. The scorched and swollen tongue would only allow strange, muffled screams of pain once the burning began, which supposedly added a great deal to the audience's entertainment.
According to some reports, the “prayer cross” was invented in catholic austria in the xvi-xvii centuries. This is evidenced by a rare edition of “justiz in der alter.
Mar 27, 2018 the words “cross” and “crucify” are derived from latin crux, meaning cross, tree or stake on which a person was impaled, hanged, or executed,.
Mar 28, 2013 the cross was a roman tool of torture before it was a tool of death. Soldiers taunted and further tortured the dying, often driving stakes.
Part of their discussion will include the question: did jesus die on a cross or a torture stake. Find out more about this nov 5 webcast and how you can participate here. Why do bible students use the symbol of the cross and crown? would displaying a cross read more.
The “prayer cross” is a metal structure with fetters that have the hands and neck impounded. The outlaw is chained into a cruciform position, which is symbolic in meaning both obedience and humility in the face of justice from the church.
I had never before witnessed a case of torture by indians and trust i may never see another. The horses of the indians had been tethered by long ropes to stakes. A guard of two indians was placed in charge of us, and we were made to lie down, still bound together, with an indian on each side of us to prevent our escape.
Self-torture on revolving cross - female torture stock illustrations ogres planning to cook and eat two frightened children - female torture stock illustrations les couvents (the convent), torture of the question, antique french engraved illustrations of les couvents (the convent), 1846 - female torture stock illustrations.
The others could speak as well meaning they were on crosses and not stakes. Now since we know the stake killed within 10-30 min and the cross killed within 24 hours, how long did jesus survive? looking in the bible and doing the math, he was on the cross for 6 hours.
Torture was a very popular form of punishment in the middle ages, but it also served as a social deterrent and as entertainment for the masses. These 10 devices show just how creative torturers became with their tools as a result.
The greek word rendered “cross” in many modern bible versions (“torture stake” in nw) is staurosʹ. In classical greek, this word meant merely an upright stake, or pale. Later it also came to be used for an execution stake having a crosspiece.
Crucifixion is the act of nailing, binding or impaling a living victim or sometimes a dead person to a cross, stake or a tree, whether for executing the body or for exposing the corpse. Crucifixion was intended to serve as both a severe punishment and a frightful deterrent to others.
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