>Bryan Maloney <bjm10@...> comunu:
>
> > Does that mean that the Seventh-day Adventists are not Christian in this
>> language? They reject the Cross.
I think you have a denomination mix-up.
>Seventh-Day Adventists consider themselves Christian and are considered by
>most to be Christian; therefore, the term 'carsdevsist' [cross-god-system]
>"Christianity" would include them. Keep reading though!
>
>> The Greek word "stavros" (sigma-tau-alpha-upsilon-rho-omicron-sigma) can
>> mean "stake" or "upright" as well as "cross". Verging on 2,000 years of
>> general consensus is that "stavros" meant "cross" in the context in
>> question. The Adventists discovered the alternate meanings and decided
>> that "stavros" could NOT mean "cross". Thus, the reject the traditional
>> interpretation in favor of "upright" or "stake". They also refuse to
>> depict or display any crosses in their iconography. They further refuse
>> to depict the "stake", since they claim that this would be an insult to
>> God, or so I gather.
Now I'm very sure of it. I've been Seventh-Day Adventist for near on 20 years
(=forever) and never heard anything like this. (And our churches have crosses
in them.)
>I can't find any record of this. The Encyclopedia Britannica states:
[snip]
>You would think if they rejected the cross that would be covered here -- its
>pretty important. Could you be thinking of a different branch of
>Christianity that calls itself an Advent church? (The Advent Christian
>Church is a separate denomination from the Seventh-Day Adventists.)
I did a search on the web and apparently it is 'Messianism' which seems to be
a very Jewish Christianity.
http://www.saltshakers.co.uk/rabbi/rabbi4.htm has a similar description of
'stavros' as discussed.
*Muke!
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