Would. man invent a God tortured on a Roman cross?

No. In fact the vast majority rejected him because he didn't come in the manner they demanded.

Well, people like to say that the Bible could have just been made up by a bunch of crazy people, but it's actually a compilation of historical documents. The Bible consists of the most trusted and most accurate documents known to man from that far back in the past.

So, Jesus was real. Whether or not he was God is the question, not whether he died on a cross. That was a common form of execution. And he could not have been simply a good man. He was either a liar, a madman, or he was actually God. He himself said that he was God, so one of those three must be true. A good man wouldn't have blasphemed by calling himself God. Do some research--there's plenty to be found. And make sure you look at both sides of the argument.

The story of jesus is not a christian story. It's copied from so many far older stories such as Mithras, Dionysus (Osiris), Krishna. etc. And the cross is actually an ancient pagan symbol for sun worship.

Yep- man invented a god tortured on a cross- long before man invented the myth of jesus. Study a little history and you'll find christianity is the least original religion there possibly is.

Sure man would invent that--especially if it was a myth stitched together from an actual event, combined with previous God-myths in the region. If you have a person you believe to be a prophet, and he gets executed--what better way to build him up along with his philosophies? You make him a martyr. The God-Man-Holy ghost trinity was invented sometime later. Men have created thousands of gods with all manner of characteristics. I see nothing to bar people from creating a god of this sort.

Now let me ask a counter question. We are supposed to believe that an all-powerful, all-loving God hated his own children so much, and cannot forgive us for the imperfect nature he gave us to begin with, so that therefore the only way he can forgive us is to sacrifice his only perfect son as a blood sacrifice? How does this make sense? I can forgive my children without a blood sacrifice, and I'm a mere mortal. It doesn't--unless it's an evolved fiction created by ignorant, superstitious bronze-age men who thought you could read the future in the form of chicken entrails.

It was the normal mode of punishment at that time.

Crucifixion was used among the Seleucids, Carthaginians, and Romans from about the 6th century BC to the 4th century AD. In the year 337, Emperor Constantine I abolished it in the Roman Empire out of veneration for Jesus, the most famous victim of crucifixion.[1][2] It was also used as a form of execution in Japan for criminals, inflicted also on some Christians.

Crucifixion was often performed to terrorize and dissuade its witnesses from perpetrating particularly heinous crimes. Victims were left on display after death as warnings to others who might attempt dissent. Crucifixion was usually intended to provide a death that was particularly slow, painful (hence the term excruciating, literally "out of crucifying"), gruesome, humiliating, and public, using whatever means were most expedient for that goal. Crucifixion methods varied considerably with location and time period.

The Greek and Latin words corresponding to "crucifixion" applied to many different forms of painful execution, from impaling on a stake to affixing to a tree, to an upright pole (a crux simplex) or to a combination of an upright (in Latin, stipes) and a crossbeam (in Latin, patibulum).[13]

In some cases, the condemned was forced to carry the crossbeam on his shoulders to the place of execution. A whole cross would weigh well over 300 pounds (135 kg), but the crossbeam would not be quite as burdensome, weighing around 100 pounds.[14] The Roman historian Tacitus records that the city of Rome had a specific place for carrying out executions, situated outside the Esquiline Gate,[15] and had a specific area reserved for the execution of slaves by crucifixion.[16] Upright posts would presumably be fixed permanently in that place, and the crossbeam, with the condemned person perhaps already nailed to it, would then be attached to the post.

The person executed may have been attached to the cross by rope, though nails are mentioned in a passage by the Judean historian Josephus, where he states that at the Siege of Jerusalem (70), "the soldiers out of rage and hatred, nailed those they caught, one after one way, and another after another, to the crosses, by way of jest."[17] Objects used in the crucifixion of criminals, such as nails, were sought as amulets with perceived medicinal qualities.[18]

While a crucifixion was an execution, it was also a humiliation, by making the condemned as vulnerable as possible. Artists have traditionally depicted the figure on a cross with a loin cloth or a covering of the genitals. Writings by Seneca the Younger state some victims suffered a stick forced upwards through their groin.[19][20] Despite its frequent use by the Romans, the horrors of crucifixion did not escape mention by some of their eminent orators. Cicero for example, described crucifixion as "a most cruel and disgusting punishment",[21] and suggested that "the very mention of the cross should be far removed not only from a Roman citizen's body, but from his mind, his eyes, his ears."[22]

Men are capable of all sorts of possible imaginations, whatever is possibly imaginable, it would be imagined and told as a story.

Apparently so.

Jesus probably was tortured on the cross. The part where he is god is the man-made factor.

no man would not invent that