Thou shalt not make any images or worship idols-what the hell is a cross with Jesus on it then?
2006-07-05 18:14:37 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It is idolatry when a person allows anything to come between him and God. More typical objects of worship include money, sex, pornography, and pleasing men.
God has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness. Every man will give an account to God for the transgression of His laws, the 10 commandments.
You will have to answer for every lie, lust, stealing, using God's name in vain, dishonoring you parents, wanting of things that don't belong to you, ect.
If God judges you by this standard, will you be innocent of guilty?
If guilty, should he send you to heaven or hell? He doesn't want to send anyone to hell, but what should he do with lawbreakers if He were a just judge?
2006-07-05 18:24:39 · answer #1 · answered by Adamray 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Ok... well Jesus is God. So the 1st commandments says " Thou shalt have no other gods before Me (God). The second states " Thou shlat not make unto thee any graven image ( no idols).
Jesus is not considered an idol because He is God.
And if you were wondering what the hec was doing on the cross... then i believe you should know he was saving his believers from hell beacause He loves you.
2006-07-06 01:25:44 · answer #2 · answered by taliofcali 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was the crucifixion, not the resurrection, which procured our salvation.
No one worships crucifixes. They simply remind us that Jesus went to a lot of trouble to procure our salvation.
Jesus specifically asks all of us to take up our cross and follow him. How literal do you want to get?
Mat 16:24 Then Jesus said to his disciples: If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Mat 16:25 For he that will save his life, shall lose it: and he that shall lose his life for my sake, shall find it.
Mat 16:26 For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?
A crucifix or cross is no more an idol than is a photograph of your family.
Anyone with a TV, VCR, camera or camcorder better get rid of it really quick.
No more sandcastles at the beach, either!
Let's not forget about the doors of refrigerators, which are being defiled by images that children make at school.
Get a life!
2006-07-06 09:38:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would only be an idol if you thought it was actually Jesus still on the cross or if you ascribed a fetish to it to make it magical, like, "This is my magic crucifix. it is filled with Gods power" or here is my Jesus on a stick.
Some people have thought that if they didn't face a crucifix then God wouldn't hear them. then it becomes a fetish or a type of idol.
In the OT idols were gods that people fashioned for themselves out of metal, rick, or wood.but in their minds the idols were the gods.
Int eh Church of The East we wear crosses, but Jesus isn't On he cross, since he is seated with eh Father. The cross is a sign of the enormity of the Fathers sacrificial love for us, in that He paid all that he had for us.
2006-07-06 01:57:44 · answer #4 · answered by stanbott 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Numbers 21:8 "And the LORD said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and every one who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live." 9 So Moses made a bronze serpent, and set it on a pole; and if a serpent bit any man, he would look at the bronze serpent and live."
John 3:14 - And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up
Note: they did not worship the bronze serpent but only looked. As man is weak to believe in God who cannot be seen. Jesus on the cross reminds me of what He did for me.
2006-07-06 01:43:57 · answer #5 · answered by itsme 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really don't know who YOU know that actually prays TO an image of Christ on the cross--it IS an image BUT most all Christians that I know--pray to the Living God and not an image--again and again in the Bible if speaks of people's worship OF graven images---Every Christian KNOWS that their saviour is no image but a real and Living Saviour
IF YOU HAD A CLUE OF HOW WHY OR WHAT CHRISTIANS ACTUALLY BELIEVED YOU WOULD NOT AND COULD NOT APPROACH THIS WITH SUCH IGNORANCE OF THE TRUTH
2006-07-06 01:26:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I totally agree with you.
Please know that NOT all Christians use the Cross. I can say that I definitely DON'T!
Why? Because the Bible tells us NOT TO!!!
Thanks for the wonderful question!! Hopefully some people can open their hearts and minds and truly worship God the way he wants us to.
Isaiah 42:8 - Â “I am Jehovah. That is my name; and to no one else shall I give my own glory, neither my praise to graven images."
That can't be ANY CLEARER!
2006-07-06 01:26:00 · answer #7 · answered by Zee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is because the religion Jesus preached is not what we call Christianity.
Cross came to significance 300 yrs after Jesus.
Jesus never called himself God or God's son.
These inconsistencies crept later on and the religion thus formed was called christianity.
Jesus never called himself a Christian.
I am a muslim.Kindly ignore if it offends you.But do check facts from other sources.
2006-07-06 01:27:51 · answer #8 · answered by serf 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is one of a bunch things that make me not a Christian.
Have you discovered more about Islam?
Even Muslim must not draw figure of Prophet Muhammad. Prophet afraid that he will be treated like Idol of Jesus. So, Islam prohibites it.
Even horoscopes are forbidden to Muslims. They believe that God who control humanlife. Not a group of stars.
What a pure monotheism!
2006-07-06 01:21:45 · answer #9 · answered by Ind 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
idols meaning worshipping those statutes filled with animal/dead people spirits like those of paganism.
if a statute is not filled with spirit then it is not worshipped and so Jesus on the crucifix basically serves as a art for rememberance only.
2006-07-06 01:19:40 · answer #10 · answered by Zenrin Y 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋