What is the meaning of cross in bible?

Answer 1

The word "crucifix" or "crux" [Latin: cross] was never in any of the original Bible manuscripts. "Cross" found its way in as a substitute word for "stauros."

"...he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after Me, is not worthy of Me." (Matt.10:38)

"Cross" from the Latin word, "crux," in this passage and throughout the New Testament that say "cross" in the KJV Bible, was substituted for the originally inspired word: "STAUROS"... which is a stake or post (as set upright), a pole, an upright pale, a tree trunk.

The translators of the King James Bible, translated and copied much of their work from other translations, including the Latin Vulgate Bible, which was highly regarded and influential at the time.

Crucifix, crux or cross was never the inspired word for that, on which Christ was hung. It is "stauros" wherever "cross" appears in the KJV.

"...not with wisdom of words, lest the cross[stauros] of Christ should be made of none effect." (I Cor.1:17)

"...The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree [xulon]." (Acts 5:30)

"xulon" [xoo'-lon] "timber; a stick, club or tree or other wooden article or substance."

"...Looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross[stauros], despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." (Heb.12:2)

"...who His own self bare our sins in His body on the tree [xulon], that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed." (I Peter 2:24)

The "crucifix"... is a molded or carved representation of what men think of as "Christ hanging on a 'stauros' with a cross-member attached." In what has come to be accepted in much of modern professing Christianity, it is an "idol"... a "lucky charm"... a "graven image"... and an "object of worship."

Therefore, in the Bible, the meaning of the crucifix is "idolatry."

Answer 2

The image of the cross mimics an intersection; a certain but crude association indeed. An intersection resembles choice of change. Christ sojourned on the cross only to die; and then be resurrected. Thusly this was the first and benevolent proof (that humans so often tend to need) that one man; with love, compassion, faith and belief can change anything.