What sort of person chooses to wear the symbol of a torture device?

Answer 1

What a sad bunch of people some of you are. God is Love. God bless.

Answer 2

I know where you are going with this. You're questioning the wearing of a cross which symbolized crucifixion which was a painful, torturous death. I think the mind state and attitude of the wearer has to be taken into account. The cross worn by many Christians and at many churches is a symbol of Christ's sacrifice for us. However, some have proposed that is a symbol of a torture device which at that time in history a cross was used for crucifixion. I'm not going to go into detail about crucifixion but please don't go there.

Answer 3

The sort of person (me!) - who knows that it was because of that torture device, that was FREELY CHOSEN by Jesus to pay for my sins and guilt, and shame - that I am now free, saved, and on my way to an awesome life, both here on earth and in the next life in heaven. Thank you Jesus that you loved me enough, that you went to the Cross, and had me on your mind as you died up there on it, paying a debt that I owed you that I could never pay! THAT is why I wear the symbol of my FREEDOM around my neck every day!
Sweetheart, give in to Jesus!! He's awesome!

Answer 4

Probably the type of person who is into torture in some form or fashion. I would like to get an electric chair pendant. I think the chair is probably the sweetest execution device.

Answer 5

Actually, this is quite a relevant question given the fact that the cross doesn't accurately represent the reality.

However, one hangs on my wall as a symbol of the mechanism of grace and faith.

You're quite right to question this symbology though and it has been the topic of protracted debate among Christians since the late 80s.
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Answer 6

All crosses, such via fact the fylfot/swastika and the logo of Tammuz the Christians observed as their very own "christian go", are solar wheels. They symbolize the promise of the return of the solar each morning. The go did no longer originate as a logo or as a torture gadget, yet fairly as a logo of the deified solar. The torture of Christ on a go and then later the torture and homicide of Pagans and Heathens via Christ's followers decrease than that comparable image, did no longer take place till hundreds of years later, purely like the affiliation of the fylfot/swastika with the Nazi regime did no longer take place till hundreds of years later. i'm pondering reclaiming historic symbols from the undesirable adult males, btw. If we don't reclaim those historic Pagan and Heathen symbols then the undesirable adult males win. do no longer enable the undesirable adult males win. Edit: 9th Grader, "adultery" is cheating on your existence companion/companion/regardless of you elect to call it. i think of you meant "idolatry". Now pass do your homework or examine a dictionary via fact it fairly is fairly unhappy whilst a Norwegian is familiar with English extra appropriate than you do. no longer attempting to be recommend, purely attempting to confirm you do no longer embarrass your self interior the destiny and fairly make your mamma proud.

Answer 7

Well, you know the Nazi's and neo-Nazi's like wearing swastika...we know what kind of people they are...

If you are referring to the cross around a Christian's neck, then let me, let you in on a little secret.

The beam that is vertical represents our relationship with our Father and the horizontal beam represents how much He loved us by stretching out His arms and dying for us. It's a reminder of what God sent Jesus to do for us.

It is also a silent witness.

Answer 8

Who cares? I mean, what and how and why does it matter what sort of person does that? It is just a harmless identifier that people use - same as any other. Do we ask what sort of person wear T-shirts, what sort of person who do not wear T-shirts, etc? The answer is, really - all sorts of people. One identifier does not make them all homogeneous. Who cares?

Answer 9

Imagine that: you kill someone and get sentenced to death by hanging. Supposed there is an afterlife, you can see all your relatives wearing little hangman nozzles around their necks.
Wouldn't you think it's so bizarre, disgusting and insulting?
Do you think jesus would like to see when (if) he comes back, millions of people greeting him with the very device he was tortured and died on?
He'd probably think they wanted him to die again, to go through all that suffering again. Sick.

Answer 10

I don't. I think it's a part of idol worship even if you're not worshipping it. We can remember that Jesus rose again & is alive,& the cross is only an intrument to help in his death. Others might wear it because it was a gift,no religious meaning, that is ok because my husband wears a smal lcross his grandmother,a catholic, gave him before her death,so it's memories of her, her last gift.

Answer 11

Originally Christian used the pentacle to symbolize the five wounds of Christ. An emperor (don't know who) decided he favored the cross more so voila! Everyone wanted to be like the emperor (because who wants to make him mad, really?) and it sort of morphed over.