If Jesus died on a stake, then how do Jehovah's Witnesses account for this?

Question

Alexamenos graffito, an inscription carved in plaster on a wall near the Palatine Hill in Rome, among the earliest known pictorial representations of the Crucifixion of Jesus, late 1st to the late 3rd century. It depicts a human-like figure affixed to a cross, has the head of a donkey, clearly he's being mocked. One other figure, just human, below is seen offering some action to this donkey headed victim on a CROSS.

Carved also is a crude Greek:
Αλεξαμενος ϲεβετε θεον ϲεβετε,
meaning
"Alexamenos worships [his] God."

Oh sure, Jehovah's Witnesses can go on about how "Stauros" (σταυρός) actually means "stake" not "cross" even though the majority of real scholars disagree. They can erroneously claim that Romans highjacked Christianity, adopting "the pagan symbol of the cross." Out of all the disputes over whether Jesus died on an upright pole or cross, however, how do the Jehovah's Witnesses account for the mockery of Jesus on the CROSS being worshiped as God by an early Christian (who is also the subject of ridicule), if the Romans between the 1st to the late 3rd century, who would have known how crucifixion was done, put Jesus on a stake?

Brett · Accepted Answer

Romans often crucified it makes sense.

Anonymous · Answer

You asked this same question before and JWs gave good answers.

The Wikipedia article stated that although some suggest this could be aged from the first to third centuries, they are unsure of how old it is.  Saying that it might be from the first to third centuries old, is a SUGGESTION.  And for those who suggest it, they believe it is more likely from the third century.  By the third century, Christianity was well on its way to being corrupted.  In fact, in the early part of the third century the false Trinity doctrine began taking form.

In the Wikipedia article on this grafitti, it says that some experts suggest that this isn't even supposed to represent Jesus but could be an Egyptian god.

It is also argued, in the article, that this proves that the cross wasn't even used in worship until the 4th or 5th centuries.  You'll have to read the article to see why.

Go to "Alexamenos Grafitto" for the Wikipedia article.  Unlike you, I am supplying the source for those who might want to read what it really says.

As I pointed out in my other comments to your first question, why are you getting so excited over the carvings of a grafitti artist.  Now these hoodlums carve on  picnic benches and write on bathroom stalls.  Then they carved on stone.  Still silly people to look up to.

By the way, look up Stauros in the Young's Analytical Concordance.  It says:  "Stake."

Diane · Answer

You keep repeating this one.  Its a nonsense question.  A bit of scribble done some 300 years after Jesus died of a "god" with a donkeys head?  How on earth have you decided that this is representing Jesus Christ, our redeemer.

Even  if at the wildest stretch of the imagination, this was supposed to be JC, its 300 years later and the cross of Tamuz was already being used as a good luck charm by then, as it is now.
Its madness.  Do you also believe the shroud of turin has his face imprinted on it?

Anonymous · Answer

Yeah, I looked at that inscription and it looked to me like it's a chimera god with the head of a horse, the wings of a bird and the body of a man. It doesn't look like a crucifixion to me.

Mayflower · Answer

The jw are antichrist and they go to hell for that stake.
Take up your stake and follow me - this is hilarious.
Matt 27-37 ..above his head,,, written notice "This is Jesus king of the Jew." Could that fit in the stake?? And they stakefied the two thieves ROFL

Seeker · Answer

In answer to " ... ", who I can't comment for some reason, I asked, two days pass, no answer, so I ask again, now both are being answered, so there you go.

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