#34 Watchtower Phallicies And The Cross- Quick Questions For Jehovah's Witnesses

[EdM021]

Hahaha, the JWs are clueless and dishonest. They say he was impaled on a pole but show he was nailed to its surface instead. Believe it or not, it is actually easier to nail someone to a pole with a crossarm than without. With his arms racked out, he can't resist as much. And the crossarmed poles (crosses) usually had projecting seat also, and it increased the shame factor 1,000%.

There was also a votive-victory cross called a tropaeum. The JWs strain at this gnat and swallow their camel!

[Wyowanderer777]

Thank you so much.

[21crosscheck21]

New heights of stupidity have been discovered.... I never knew they could fly so high. Thanks for the video Kieth.

[LeftyBlue]

Me thinks the JWs need to look up the definition of the word "phallic".

[Gusdaberean]

Keith You are too much ROFL!!!!! LOL!!!!! And a very valid POINT!

[EvidenceMinistries]

The JWs are usually pretty quick in responding to my videos. I find it interesting that one week after posting this, there are ZERO comments from JWs.

[eternityandforever]

@EvidenceMinistries Hi, I'm a JW. I thought alot about the cross issue myself. I grew up Catholic,and boy, oh boy, I LOVED my crosses! Well, I took a good, hard look at it. I kept finding out as much as I can.I was 12 years old, and I remember painting an Egyptian painting I copied out of a book for my aunt on a trunk she wanted to sell. The man (priest) with the jackal head held a cross symbol. So I remembered that and I did more research and found they had many types of crosses.RESEARCH MORE!

[TheSnarkyApologist]

As we know, the Watchtower LQQKS for things they can use simply to separate themselves from from Orthodox Christianity.

Jesus is NOT God.

Salvation by works.

Death on a torture stake.

Jesus is Michael.

The Holy Spirit is an invisible energy force.

etc, etc, etc.......

[arnie365]

good video. there is something even worse that the wts backwards thinking. they don`t even understand the english language. they claim that their jesus was IMPALED on the t s. IMPALEMENT means that the stake is driven THRU the body and out the mouth in most cases. this is totally unbiblical.

i will be making a video on this subject when i get the chance.

[1689Baptist]

ROFL

[JAT002]

If Jesus was crucified on a tree, what did he carry to the tree? The cross beam maybe?

[EvidenceMinistries]

@JAT002- Yes, that is what most scholars believe.

[awolLDSasap]

Unbelievable... Do all of these odd religions seek to use a phallic symbol for some unknown reason? BYU smart guys have decided the phalic symbol on Josephs Egyptian papyrus is the Mormon priesthood. Must be testosterone driven thinking / a bit of stupid.

[EvidenceMinistries]

@awolLDSasap- I think it is more than a "bit" stupid.

[awolLDSasap]

@EvidenceMinistries

Give a guy a title and power and the cup runneth over with pride and boasting.

[DeadeyeSteve]

To answer the question (though I am not a JW)...

. "No."

.

[this just to help out the JWs, in case they were uncertain]

[EvidenceMinistries]

@DeadeyeSteve- LOL!

[earnestlyseeking]

The JWs like to refer to Josephus sometimes, but even he said Jesus was crucified on a cross. I looked it up recently in "antiquities of the Jews" Since he was a Jew and not a Christian, I'm sure he would not have been biased.

[Ephesians2Ministry]

Excellent question. We love it.

[TrustinJC]

Good one.

I just got off the phone less than 5 minutes ago from a JW. This was new to me as I only ever heard of them going door to door. We actually had a good, and civil, debate that lasted about an hour with most of it centered around the trinity. I wish I'd seen this before he called.

[EvidenceMinistries]

@TrustinJC- Check your caller ID and call him back! lol

[apologeticsman]

JWs claim the cross was a "jamming stake", absolutely baseless. All art depicting crucifixion for that time period shows crosses as a pole with a beam of wood crossed at the top The top was sometimes more of a T than a cross shape, but the fact that Jesus had His hands nailed to it proves that it was not a stake. JW's deny that Christ was God, and that he had the power over death, so they want to depict Him dying quickly, which according to the dialogue in the NT is ridiculous

[JAT002]

@apologeticsman Correct.

I did some research. If Jesus was nailed to a pole with his hands over his head, he would have died very very quickly from the inability to breath (half hour maybe). This would not satisfy the Roman desire to make the victim suffer. Nailing the hands stretched out on a cross beam prolonged the death for hours or in some instances, days. We know Jesus was nailed to the cross in the 3rd hour and died in the 9th. 6 hours.

[RSivulka]

LOL! I mean you've got to adequately deal with their stupid claims.