Crucifix??

Question

If you wear a cross round your neck, do you wear it as a sign of being a Christian , or is it just jewelry to you?

Answer 1

It's a bit medieval and morbid to wear a miniature torture device around your neck, no matter what you reckon it symbolises..

Yet another contradictory christian belief..

Answer 2

How would you feel if one of your dearest friends was executed on the basis of false charges? Would you make a replica of the instrument of execution? Would you cherish it, or would you rather shun it?

In ancient Israel, unfaithful Jews wept over the death of the false god Tammuz. Jehovah spoke of what they were doing as being a ‘detestable thing.’ (Ezek. 8:13, 14) According to history, Tammuz was a Babylonian god, and the cross was used as his symbol. From its beginning in the days of Nimrod, Babylon was against Jehovah and an enemy of true worship. (Gen. 10:8-10; Jer. 50:29) So by cherishing the cross, a person is honoring a symbol of worship that is opposed to the true God.

As stated at Ezekiel 8:17, apostate Jews also ‘thrust out the shoot to Jehovah’s nose.’ He viewed this as “detestable” and ‘offensive.’ Why? This “shoot,” some commentators explain, was a representation of the male sex organ, used in phallic worship. How, then, must Jehovah view the use of the cross, which was anciently used as a symbol in phallic worship?

Answer 3

it can be both, God just does not want us to idol or worship something else. You can have a neckless with a cross to show your a Christian and where it as jewelry. =)

i think i took your question wrong now that i look at it, but hey people can still learn from this answer lol...
God Bless

Answer 4

If I could find mine, I would wear it to show I am Christian. However, everyone is wearing them now, so I doubt that anyone would get the message.

Answer 5

The crucifix only symbolizes the fall of the Roman empire they are repugnant .

Answer 6

For me it is a reminder of His love and it helps to elevate my heart to His. This is not idolatry or the worship of a graven image
The Christian veneration of images is not contrary to the first commandment which proscribes idols. Indeed, the honor rendered to an image passes to its prototype, and "whoever venerates an image venerates the person portrayed in it. The honor paid to sacred images is a "respectful veneration, not the adoration due to God alone:

Religious worship is not directed to images in themselves, considered as mere things, but under their distinctive aspect as images leading us on to God incarnate. The movement toward the image does not terminate in it as image, but tends toward that whose image it is.

Answer 7

its a jewelry to some sign of faith to others does it really matter?

Answer 8

I wear a pentacle ... to remind me of the five elements. Air, water, earth, fire and spirit.

Answer 9

I don't wear the cross. I am christian. I don't wear it because it represents Jesus' death and he is alive. Why would be worshiping his death if he is alive. We want to celebrate his life! He died for us but he resurrected later and duh, didn't die again ^_^

Answer 10

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.
Unless, of course, your Catholic.