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Cross??????

I read somewhere that the cross symbolizes the science of the universe and spiritality.The vertical plane is the knowledge of science/ and universe and the horizontal plane symbolizes the sprituality of man and in the center is our heart. Where is this from?

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1. The cross can't symbolize science because religion has nothing to do with science. It's an torture/execution method. If jesus was killed today, christians would be wearing an electric chair around their necks.
2. I do not believe this, the cross came to symbolize the supposed means of execution of jesus, but its all myth so...
3. I have not heard that exactly, but if I had I would reverse the two. Science is the horizontal plane of knowledge -- knowledge of this physical dimension; but spirituality would be the vertical plane, the ascent/descent of the spirit/soul into other, non-physical dimensions. By the way, the equal-armed cross is a sacred symbol in many ancient pagan religions, it was around long before Christianity.
4. Significant is this comment in the book The Cross in Ritual, Architecture, and Art: “It is strange, yet unquestionably a fact, that in ages long before the birth of Christ, and since then in lands untouched by the teaching of the Church, the Cross has been used as a sacred symbol. . . . The Greek Bacchus, the Tyrian Tammuz, the Chaldean Bel, and the Norse Odin, were all symbolised to their votaries by a cruciform device.”—By G. S. Tyack, London, 1900, p. 1. The book The Non-Christian Cross, by J. D. Parsons (London, 1896), adds: “There is not a single sentence in any of the numerous writings forming the New Testament, which, in the original Greek, bears even indirect evidence to the effect that the stauros used in the case of Jesus was other than an ordinary stauros; much less to the effect that it consisted, not of one piece of timber, but of two pieces nailed together in the form of a cross. . . . It is not a little misleading upon the part of our teachers to translate the word stauros as ‘cross’ when rendering the Greek documents of the Church into our native tongue, and to support that action by putting ‘cross’ in our lexicons as the meaning of stauros without carefully explaining that that was at any rate not the primary meaning of the word in the days of the Apostles, did not become its primary signification till long afterwards, and became so then, if at all, only because, despite the absence of corroborative evidence, it was for some reason or other assumed that the particular stauros upon which Jesus was executed had that particular shape.”—Pp. 23, 24; see also The Companion Bible, 1974, Appendix No. 162
5. the cross was used as a device for crucifying people, an archaic form of punishment.
6. There never was a cross. It was always a stake. Read your history and it will state such. And why would anyone want to be remembered by the thing that they suffered so greatly on? How about wearing a gun around your neck from someone who got killed by that?
7. People are always trying to attribute symbolic significance to the shape of the cross. I've read people saying that the vertical line signifies our connection with God, while the crossbeam (horizontal) signifies our connection with other humans. Hey, if it works for you, fine. But the biggest thing the cross symbolizes in any respect is God sending His only son to simultaneously point out how miserable our sin is and forgive us for it..thank God! The other reality is that Jesus probably wasn't crucified on anything that we would recognize as a "cross." It was more likely an "execution stake" - a huge pole. Although there were variations on the means used back in Roman times. Could have been a "cross." But the word used for "cross" in the Bible doesn't necessarily mean two beams in the shape of a lowercase "t." So any symbolism based on the "shape" of the thing is sort of a mute point anyway.