passion differ in several details: They believe Jesus was crucified on Wednesday (instead of Friday) and raised three days later on a Saturday before sunset (instead of Sunday morning). Jesus died upon a stake, together with four other individuals (instead of two), two thieves and two malefactors, based on the use of different words by Luke and Matthew, specifically, kakourgoi and lēstai. According to The Way, the cross upon which Jesus was crucified was not the traditional T-shaped cross, but rather a stake or the trunk of a tree. Furthermore, Jesus did not carry his cross; rather, after leaving the judgment hall, the soldiers immediately compelled Simon of Cyrene to bear the cross all the way to Calvary per the three Gospel accounts in , and . The one account in which states "And he bearing his cross...", is argued that it refers to Jesus' spiritual "bearing of sin". The Way makes a distinction between the bride of Christ and the body of Christ, the body of Christ beginning on the Day of Pentecost and continuing until the return of Christ. The "thorn in the flesh" in is interpreted as individuals sent by Satan to disrupt the apostle Paul's ministry, not an illness as it is commonly interpreted. Also, the dead do not immediately go to heaven to be in the presence of the Lord, or unbelievers to hell, but rather that death is a continuing state which will end only when Jesus Christ returns for his saints (; ) and with his saints. In this way they believe that souls are not immortal, thus remaining dead until the final resurrection, which is known by some as soul sleep. Wierwille also wrote that the "unsaved" simply "die a second and final death". Way followers reject water baptism, holding that it wasn't intended as a continuing practice after Pentecost, and that it applied only to Israel. With the coming of the greater (baptized in holy spirit) the lesser (baptized in water) is done away with. The Way notably believes that once a person is born again, they receive "holy spirit" and cannot lose it through any sinful acts. Tithing one's net income to the church is a recommended minimum, taking the example from Abraham's donation to Melchizedek, as well as the instruction in . Additional voluntary giving is called "abundant sharing", and "plurality giving", which refers to the donation of any