Because fire beats wood. Checkmate.
You have to love how clever christianity is. Either symbolically or literally that fire burns wood, which undermines and belittles "jesus" "dying a cross", I'd like to see christians sweat and try to squirm their way out of that one.
The cross is a pagan symbol and was adored in Egypt thousands of years long before "Christ's birth". in reality,
Jesus Christ is a biblical version of the Egyptian Horus, Vedic Krishna, Slavic Kresnik, Svarozich, cult of Svetovid, and MythRa ("washing out"; shining out or Scepter in Treta Yuga; "3rd Era"(pre 5008 BCE; pre Kali Yuga (Kill; "penetration"; "Kala"(muddy, dirty); Vek (Viyek; Vyuga) - Yuga. ) - preMitrenye, Prometheus...
If they crucified a man; he became Living god which was re-SURrected " ("Sura"; "Morning dawn"; from NaZareth; "Falling star"; "Lucifer"; Venus... Osiris - Bacchus (center of the Vatican; Babylonian-Greek version of the Asuras; A'Sura; "Against Surya"; "Against Sun"; a parasitical version (and continuity) of Osiris-Horus....