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THE STANDARDS
The battle standards of the legions were venerated in a religious way. The legionary standard with the most symbolic importance was the aquila, "eagle." In the Empire a cult of the emperor developed. This manifested itself in the imagio, a standard topped with a golden representation of the ruling emperor's face. An incident in Judea highlights this standards religious value. The procurater of Judea, Pontius Pilot, began his term in office by bringing in some standards to be housed in Jerusalem. Among them were imagio of Emperor Tiberius. The outraged Jewish populace protested, demanding the removal of these graven images. They insisted on their demand despite the Romans' threat of violence (Josephus, The Jewish War II, 165).
The success and prosperity of a unit was seen as linked to the standards. Every Roman camp or fort had a shrine to house the staqndards. To lose a standard was a tremendous dishonor. The army would do everything within its power to regain it. Recovered standards were not returned to the legion. They were instead placed in a temple constructed by Augustus devoted to Mars Ultor, "Mars the Avenger."
P.S. : you still didn't comment on how long it would take to die on the cross compared to being impaled, like i said, check out vlad the impaler, it is very relevant to this discussion. peace
live for days on a cross, after being beaten as jesus was......i disagree, how about being impaled?
Though the Bible does not specifically describe the instrument that Jesus died upon,
Originally posted by decievedperception
The story of Moses, Egypt, and the Isrealites. Everyone has heard this story or maybe has watched the movie Prince of Egypt...more than likely has heard the phrase..."Let my people go". Moses with the help of God led the Isrealites out of Egypt. Once they got to the destination. Moses was called to the mountain top by God where he stayed for some time. This is when the 10 commandments where being spoken of and written. With Moses not coming back they began to worry. Aaron, Moses' brother also a follower had all of them bring their gold, which he melted down and made a Golden Calf. Some of the Isrealites began to dance, bow, and pray to the calf , saying that it was there God that had helped them. When God seen/heard this he was angry and told Moses to rush down and see what they where doing.
what escapes the notice of alot of christians is that the israelites made this calf to represent god. it wasnt just some random god they were worshipping, they actually thought the idol represented Jehovah.
Originally posted by miriam0566
Originally posted by decievedperception
The story of Moses, Egypt, and the Isrealites. Everyone has heard this story or maybe has watched the movie Prince of Egypt...more than likely has heard the phrase..."Let my people go". Moses with the help of God led the Isrealites out of Egypt. Once they got to the destination. Moses was called to the mountain top by God where he stayed for some time. This is when the 10 commandments where being spoken of and written. With Moses not coming back they began to worry. Aaron, Moses' brother also a follower had all of them bring their gold, which he melted down and made a Golden Calf. Some of the Isrealites began to dance, bow, and pray to the calf , saying that it was there God that had helped them. When God seen/heard this he was angry and told Moses to rush down and see what they where doing.
what escapes the notice of alot of christians is that the israelites made this calf to represent god. it wasnt just some random god they were worshipping, they actually thought the idol represented Jehovah.
many people try to make the excuse that cross worship is ok because they are not worshipping the cross, but rather what the cross represents all the while forgetting that this is wrong too.
exodus 32:[4] And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
[5] And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD. "jehovah" is what is original ly here.
[6] And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.