Would the religious world decorate their churches and their homes and their bodies with gun symbols, if Jesus had been shot instead? Or would there be another symbol entirely for Christianity?
2006-09-12 10:36:52 · 18 answers · asked by borealtroll 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That's the general idea. That's why it was such a shock to the Romans to have such a feared symbol of death be the Christian symbol for true life.
It would be very fitting to have a gun as the symbol of Christianity because death is the foundation of it's teaching. We are born children of a fallen humanity. We must die to our former selves and in the Resurrection and the blood of Jesus Christ we are reborn children of God.
2006-09-12 10:42:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The cross while a symbol of a curse God made into the symbol of victory. When Jesus was crucified the powers of the world thought that they had won. Yet, 3 days later Christ came back to life. It was this supposed victory by the powers of this world and their celebration of it that came to be shown as them being made a spectacle in their own defeat.
The cross then became a symbol of God's triumph over death and hell, thuss its now a symbol of victory and eternal life. Anyone who would come to God must invariably go the the cross for it is there that mankinds sins were attoned for, once and for all.
2006-09-12 10:43:31 · answer #2 · answered by Archer Christifori 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's real cute, but gun powder wasn't invented until the 8th century A.D. So there's no way that Jesus could have been killed by a firing squad.
2006-09-12 10:39:52 · answer #3 · answered by Gestalt 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-07 04:49:46 · answer #4 · answered by ravelo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great Question...which is why the symbol is just a cross with out Christ on it because he isn't on it...He has resurrected and lives today and forever more. So the answer is we should not celebrate what killed him but what he is doing now!
2006-09-12 10:40:22 · answer #5 · answered by abram1love 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't wear crosses or gun Jewelry.
Read Romans 10
2006-09-12 10:39:26 · answer #6 · answered by robert p 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, they would have all got tired of standing around for 1500 years so the gun could be invented.
2006-09-12 10:40:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the symbolic Jesus on the cross is just that, symbolic. Jesus Christ, don't take everything so literal!
2006-09-12 10:42:28 · answer #8 · answered by barbsmonsta 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
no i srsly doubt that...but why does it MATTER? who honestly cares he wasn't shot that would have been totally besides the point...he WOULDN'T have been killed by a gun squad.
2006-09-12 10:39:48 · answer #9 · answered by aerie anna 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably golden bullets....it's just a symbol that represents Christ's death, it's the symbol that is important rather than the reason behind it.
2006-09-12 10:39:06 · answer #10 · answered by Steve M 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋