as elder jacob o. meyer studied hebrew and greek and the original texts, meyer came to believe that most false doctrines found in modern religious teaching originated from the translation of the text in to modern language, not in the original texts. for example, the ssbe does not use the term ‘cross’ in reference to the death fixture used on the messiah, but rather ‘stake’ or ‘pole’. this is because this term is #4716 in the greek text, which is the word ‘stauros’. never is this word intended to represent a cross.