Comments from the Friends - Online Edition - January-March 1998

[page 7 of the 1990 WT booklet HOW CAN BLOOD SAVE YOUR LIFE]

JW Blood booklet shows Romans used
THE CROSS to execute Christians.

A picture on page 7 of the 1990 Watchtower booklet How Can Blood Save Your Life shows early Christians dying on crosses in the arena.
This amounts to an inadvertent admission that Jesus did die on a cross—even though The Watchtower has been teaching to the contrary since the early 1930's.

"No biblical evidence even intimates that Jesus died on a cross."
—Awake! November 8, 1972, page 28

"So, the evidence indicates that Jesus did not die on the traditional cross." —Awake! September 22, 1974, page 28

"Jesus most likely was executed on an upright stake without any crossbeam."
—The Watchtower August 15, 1987, page 29

JW leaders even took "the cross" out of their Bible translation.
But they accidentally left it in this picture!

ENLARGEMENT OF CROSSES IN PICTURE ON PAGE 7 OF BOOKLET

[ENLARGEMENT from page 7 of the 1990 WT booklet HOW CAN BLOOD SAVE YOUR LIFE]

Which picture fits the Scriptures?

[Above his HEAD (not hands)=Matt. 27:37, in his hands the print of the NAILS (plural)-John 20:25, BOTH DESCRIBE A CROSS not an upright stake]

In spite of the obvious facts stated in Scripture, the Watchtower Society insists upon always picturing Jesus on an upright stake without a crossbeam—never on a cross. And the organization expels and shuns any individual Jehovah’s Witness who expresses belief in the cross. Such ones are then “persecuted for the cross of Christ.”—Gal. 6:12

—The illustration immediately above is reproduced from the Spring 1988 issue of
Comments from the Friends (Vol. VII, No. 2)

Would pagan Romans put Christ to death on a pagan cross? Remember that an upright stake or sacred pole was also a pagan religious symbol.

Evidence indicates that the Romans carried out crucifixions so often that they kept upright stakes permanently in the ground for that purpose and often had victims carry on their shoulders only the patibulum (crossbeam) that would be hoisted into place with victim attached.

For more information read Watchtower Stake versus Christian Cross, a sixty-page booklet by Carolyn Pemberton of New Zealand. It is the most complete and comprehensive discussion that we know of. See current order form or visit our online bookstore at http://www.abaweb.com/Comments

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