Do Jehovah's Witnesses believe Jesus died on the cross and was resurected 3 days later?

Answer 1

Jehovah's Witnesses believe what The Bible teaches and, The Bible Teaches that Jesus Died On the torture Stake and was resurrected three days after.

So in short Yes (though the word crucified is normally used in conjunction with the cross, the bible just said Jesus died on a torture stake, though the king James version may have the word cross, a more accurate translation would be stake or tree)

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Answer 2

Well, something like that, but a little differently.

In 1936, JWs realized that Jesus did NOT die on a cross. According to one authority, the Greek word (stau·ros′) rendered "cross" in the King James Version"denotes, primarily, an upright pale or stake. [It is] to be distinguished from the ecclesiastical form of a two beamed cross. . . . The cross had its origin in ancient Chaldea, and was used as the symbol of the god Tammuz."

Far from being idolized, Jehovah's Witnesses actually view the instrument on which Jesus was impaled with revulsion.

W. E. Vine, respected British scholar, offers these hard facts: "By the middle of the 3rd cent. A.D. . . . pagans were received into the churches . . . and were permitted largely to retain their pagan signs and symbols. Hence the Tau or T, . . . with the cross-piece lowered, was adopted."---Vine'sExpository Dictionary of Old andNew Testament Words.

In agreement with this, Oxford University's CompanionBible says: "The evidence is . . . that the Lord was put to death upon an upright stake, and not on two pieces of timber placed at any angle." Clearly, the churches have adopted a tradition that is not Biblical.

Historian Achen, observes: "In the two centuries after the death of Jesus it is doubtful that the Christians ever used the device of the cross."

But YES, JWs do believe that Jesus died on a STAKE, and was resurrected 3 days later. But once you use the word 'cross' you just about make us puke; because of it's origins as a phallic symbol, being connected by 'self-proclaimed Christians' to Jehovah's son, Christ Jesus. It's like Ezekiel 8:17 states that they 'thrust out the shoot, at Jehovah's nose'. (The 'shoot' referring to the male phallic symbol.) As if Jehovah would take delight in smelling it.