What does the diagonal line near the bottom of the Eastern Orthodox Cross symbolize?
score:5
Accepted answer
It represents the piece of wood (part of the cross) upholding or supporting the victim's feet; one can get a much clearer view of it in icons depicting Christ's crucifixion.
Upvote:0
According to Russian Orthodox Tradition, the lower horizontal piece was bent by the extreme agony Christ suffered on the Cross.
More post
- 📝 Was Martin Luther's marriage to Katharina von Bora due to their love for each other?
- 📝 How we do we know that Joseph wasn't Hyksos?
- 📝 What blood type has been found on the relics of Jesus Christ here on earth?
- 📝 Why four Gospels?
- 📝 How do we know the Sacrament of Communion as practiced in the Catholic Church was instituted at the Last Supper?
- 📝 If we say "God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit" can we say "God, God, and God"?
- 📝 What is the Reformed Protestant Interpretation of 1 Timothy 1:19 in relation to “eternal security”?
- 📝 Have any real people been de-canonized?
- 📝 How do Christians Explain the Betrayal of Judas?
- 📝 When did the Catholic Church first prohibit bishops from remarrying?
- 📝 Did God forgive sins based on Jesus' future sacrifice?
- 📝 Question about Moses
- 📝 What is meant by "atheism is a religion"?
- 📝 What Christians believe about Time Travel and Teleportation?
- 📝 Can non-Catholic Christian souls participate in Intercession?
- 📝 What were the beliefs, teachings, and practices of the church regarding slavery in the New World?
- 📝 John 1:18 - "No one has ever seen God" - How do Trinitarians reconcile this scripture with the belief that the Lord Jesus Christ is God?
- 📝 According to Protestants who hold that belief in Trinitarianism is necessary for salvation, what happens to those who assent but don't understand?
- 📝 Was Jesus Christ crucified on the 14th of Nisan (April 3, 33) or the 15th (April 4, 33)?
- 📝 Did any Apostolic or Ante-Nicene Fathers believe that Jesus was a created being?
- 📝 Does the Roman Catholic church recognize LDS baptisms?
- 📝 What is the biblical basis for both tithing and offering in the New Covenant, instead of just offering?
- 📝 Did Jesus/God/Jehovah know that Jesus would die on the cross BEFORE coming to Earth?
- 📝 Where did the religious symbol of the 'halo' come from?
- 📝 What is the biblical basis for only Men being created in the image of God?
- 📝 What is the basis for the LDS (Mormon) teaching regarding Atonement in Gethsemane rather than at Calvary?
- 📝 Why did Paul VI strip József Mindszenty of his archbishopric?
- 📝 What are the requirements for a church to be accepted into the Catholic Church?
- 📝 Does Luke chapter 16 verses 9 through 13 warn us that there is no middle ground between serving God and serving mammon?
- 📝 Does Catholicism teach that Jesus was a theistic evolutionist?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 What does the diagonal line near the bottom of the Eastern Orthodox Cross symbolize?
- 📝 What does Lutheranism teaches in regard the eastern orthodox doctrine of theosis?
- 📝 What are the major differences between Eastern and Western Orthodox Christianities?
- 📝 What is the ecclesiastical 'hierarchy' of the Eastern Orthodox Church?
- 📝 Why does the Eastern Orthodox Church dislike the idea that the Spirit proceeds from the Son?
- 📝 According to Protestants, what "new" things has the Eastern Orthodox Church acquired over time?
- 📝 What is the Catholic response to the Eastern Orthodox view that the Immaculate Conception remove Jesus' ability to redeem all of humanity?
- 📝 What did Luther think of the Eastern Orthodox and vice versa?
- 📝 Why does the Eastern Orthodox church forbid blind men from becoming priests?
- 📝 What were the common exonyms of the Roman Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox churches leading up to and after the Great Schism (1054)?
- 📝 What are the requirements for establishing an Eastern Orthodox church or mission?
- 📝 What does the Orthodox church consider to be the defining features of Christian meditation?
- 📝 What objective, foolproof method do Eastern Orthodox have for working out which side is correct in the case of a Schism?
- 📝 For Eastern Orthodox churches, what are the main references concerning Biblical Interpretation methodology?
- 📝 What is the difference between Eastern Orthodox doctrine of deification and the "little g" god doctrine of the Word of Faith movement?
- 📝 Does the Eastern Orthodox Church believe in Aerial Toll Houses?
- 📝 Does the Eastern Orthodox Church eat leavened or unleavened bread during the Eucharist?
- 📝 What is the eastern Catholic and Eastern Orthodox understanding of mortal and venial sin?
- 📝 Is it appropriate (as a Catholic) to make the sign of the cross when passing an Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox or Church of the East church?
- 📝 At what point did the Eastern Church start self-identifying as the Orthodox Church?
- 📝 What is the Biblical Basis of Eastern Orthodox Christians that the Holy Spirit proceeded from the Father alone?
- 📝 Does the Eastern Orthodox Church consider belief in the existence of Jesus' soul before the incarnation a heresy?
- 📝 Does the Eastern orthodox church prohibit Christian meditation?
- 📝 What differences are there between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox understanding of the sacrament of marriage?
- 📝 What does it mean that the Believers Eastern Church (in Asia) is an "Ancient-Future Church"?
- 📝 What is the Eastern Orthodox view of tradition and its authority?
- 📝 Why does the Eastern Orthodox Church call the 49 days following Easter, Pentecost, and the Western Church does not?
- 📝 What is the Eastern Orthodox view on Protestants and Catholics
- 📝 Does the Eastern Orthodox Church have guidelines on which language to recite the Jesus Prayer in?
- 📝 What does modern scholarship conclude about the shape of the cross and the method of crucifixion?