What is so bad about asking where the cross of Jesus is?

Question

Hey, I just got my first violation notice for asking the following question:

Where is the cross that Jesus died upon?

Question Details:

You would think, for an event of such magnitude as the death and resurrection of the very son of 'God' himself, people would have done all they could to preserve any evidence, such as the cross he died on. So where is the cross? They could produce evidence of his existence, via things like the shroud of Turin (which isn't actually evidence, since it's a proven fraud), but they can't even produce the cross?

So what's so horrid about asking this question? Inquiring minds wanna know!

Answer 1

First of all, let me congratulate you for getting both your new question and your old question in the header of your question. (So few people manage to fit even one question in.)

Second, violation notices aren't really personal, just automatically generated when people report you. Sometimes someone goes on a rampage and starts reporting everyone they don't like. Then they either get tired of that or the Y!A bots detect the pattern and determine that the reporter is the abuser. So unless you really are trolling, it shouldn't happen often.

Now, as to your first question, it is very possible that the particular cross used on Jesus was reused for other executions. I can't imagine the efficient Romans using disposable equipment on criminals. Then again, after Constantine's conversion, his mother, Monica, made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and apparently found the true Cross. Of course, everyone wanted a souvenir and it is very possible that the whole thing got slivvered away into relics (which reassembled would amount to one hallaciously huge cross, BTW). But who can say for sure what might have happened to it? Nature is no respecter of artifacts, and one cross looks much like another.

Answer 2

All questions (trolls being excepted) are valid when it comes to religion and faith. A living faith ignores no question and often asks the hardest questions of itself.

I'm sure the cross was probably re-used and maybe lost its known connection to Jesus. The accepted symbology of the first Christians was the sign of a fish.

I would think that the cross was never recovered. But for that matter, where's the thorn of crowns; the Ark of the Covenant; the mmanger where he was supposedly born? There are wayyy more questions then answers.

And yet, I believe Jesus was the son of God. I also believe equally that God loves alll people of the world. He is just.

Well, best of luck!

Answer 3

I can't understand why you'd get a violation for asking such a question, after all, it was in the Religion section. It certainly is better than people asking disrespectful questions about God, constant racial slurs, penis size, breast size, am I pregnant, or seeing a man's anatomy as his avatar, etc. I'll bet the person who reported you has asked some questions that were out of line, many times.

Answer 4

sry u got reported.


To answer your question: crucifixion was a popular form of execution by the Romans during that period. The cross that Jesus died on was probably just re-used for the next execution. Unlike the shroud, grail, etc. these things could conceivably be found and retrieved by His followers.

After the crucifixion, everyone believed that the messiah was dead. Plus, the Jews were still looking for his followers; that is why they hid. They wouldn't dare resurface and ask the Romans "hey, btw, do you think we could keep that huge cross as a souvenier?"

It would be like us asking the state to let us have the electric chair after a loved one was executed...only in their day, they would have been hung on it next...

Answer 5

Regarding your question: Where the cross of Jesus is?

The answer is: The "True Cross" was destroyed by the Muslims in 1191 as a retalliation of Richard the Lionheart's slaughter of 2,700 Muslim prisoners of war outside the walls of Acre. It was lost for good.

However, in 1110 (thus about 81 years before its destruction), King Magnus of Norway was able to take a very small piece of the Cross and preserved it in his church in Durthem in Norway.

Answer 6

If they had the spot and the wood cross itself those who do not believe would still not believe. Some who believe today in the infallible Bible would probably worship that cross should it exist. People find idols where they can. This is one the world doesn't have to endure.

The question should be fine but if you get to close to their nerve, the part that contains the secret evil, then they'll pull the question.

♥Blessed Be♥
♥=∞

Answer 7

Personally, I don't know if I would think anyone would want to keep the instrument that caused the death of someone they loved. I've never heard of families and friends of suicides hording the gun with which he shot himself in the head or the bottle that the pills she took came in. What a gruesome idea.

I can see it now. "Yes, dear...there on the mantel, is the knife that an escaped felon used to hack your grandpa to death with."
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I got violated for answering this question with this answer:

Question: What can we do to make politics more honest?
Answer: Incarcerate all the politicians.

You aren't so special.

Answer 8

Don't know why anyone would report that, but who knows what people think?

I think I answered that question.

The cross belonged to the Romans and was not disposable.
How would a common man or group of common men take it from the Romans? Besides the believers that were there cared about Jesus, not the cross, itself. And anyway they would not have had any way to preserve it.

Answer 9

theres nothing wrong with asking that question but seen as it was made out of wood it has probly decayed.

Answer 10

the same reason my question was banned if Jesus was killed on the electric chair would Christians wear an electric chair around their neck you can't diss Christianity on yahoo