It makes not one whit of difference what the Greek Orthodox
believe or any one else. It is what the Bible says is
important. The word stauros translated to English as
cross, is a pole, not a cross. Anything not based on
the Scriptures is man-devised, by definition is not
holy or pure or perfect. That’s all.
Anything not based on
the Scriptures is man-devised, by definition is not
holy or pure or perfect. That’s all.***
So, why did the Greek Christians of the first centuries always show a cross! I would imagine that they knew what it meant. All the iconography shows a cross.