Kareem wrote:Now listen Mr. Webmaster!
Don't play no games!
You know as well as I do that he was HUNG FROM A TREE!
Infact, since you brought up the SADUCCESS (Zadokim
) do you know what nasty things THEY said?
They said that Jesus was tried for blasphemy and sorcery, sentenced to death and STONED.
Then after-ward his body was hung from a TREE for humiliation and taken down before sunset.
If you want to get down to basics when you sit on a wood chair you are sitting in a tree, your wooden bed is made from a tree so you could say you sleep in a tree.
CROSS
CROSS
An upright wooden stake or post on which Jesus was executed. Before the manner of Jesus' death caused the cross to symbolize the very heart of the Christian faith, the Greek word for cross referred primarily to a pointed stake used in rows to form the walls of a defensive stockade.
It was common in the biblical period for the bodies of executed persons to be publicly displayed by hanging them from the stakes of the stockade wall. This was done to discourage civil disobedience and to mock defeated military foes (Gen 40:19; 1 Sam 31:8-13). This gruesome practice may explain how the stake eventually came to be used as an instrument of civil and military punishment. Such stakes came to be used later with crossbeams as instruments of humiliation, torture, and execution for persons convicted as enemies of the state (foreign soldiers, rebels and spies, for example) or of civil criminals (such as robbers).
(from Nelson's Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Copyright (c)1986, Thomas Nelson Publishers)
Words communicate concepts therefore what started as a stake and evolved into a cross is still an instrument of execution.
As to what the Sadducces teach, that is not germane to this thread. Christ was crucified according to Roman law and stoning was not a Roman form of execution.