2007-12-21 11:59:21 · 10 answers · asked by Future 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
a horrible, ugly, vicious, torturous instrument of death used by people to kill other people in a very inhumane and sickening way. To me, there is not an ounce of holiness in such a thing.
2007-12-21 12:47:52 · answer #1 · answered by Lady Morgana 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The cross you see on the steeple of a neighborhood church, on its altar and as pendants around the necks of many of your neighbors is actually a pagan religious symbol. It was revered throughout the pagan world long before the advent of Christianity.
If you belong to one of Christendom’s churches, did the church ever tell you that the cross is a pagan symbol? If it did not, it withheld the truth from you. It has encouraged you to hold in reverence an admittedly pagan symbol. “But,” you may say, “did not the early Christians regard the cross as a symbol of Christianity?” No, they did not. It was not until about the middle of the third century of our Common Era that professed Christians began to use it as such. An Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words by W. E. Vine states on page 256 of volume one: “By the middle of the 3rd century A.D. the churches had either departed from, or had travestied, certain doctrines of the Christian faith. In order to increase the prestige of the apostate ecclesiastical system pagans were received into the churches apart from regeneration by faith, and were permitted largely to retain their pagan signs and symbols.
2007-12-21 12:07:40 · answer #2 · answered by conundrum 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The place where Jesus died for my sins and secured my salvation. Jesus then rose again three days later.
The only way to be saved and go to heaven and not eternal hell is by believing that Jesus, who is God, died for our sins on the cross and rose again (1 Corinthians 15:1-4).
2007-12-21 13:16:04 · answer #3 · answered by Chris 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my pagan faith it is most often used as a symbol of the unification of the male and female. It is worn or utilized for protection against evil.
2007-12-21 12:16:04 · answer #4 · answered by MiaOMya 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Its a symbol of Jesus sacrificing his life on the cross.For the sins of the whole world.
2007-12-21 12:11:12 · answer #5 · answered by paula r 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus' crucifixion and the sacrifice he made out of pure love for all of us!
2007-12-21 12:04:03 · answer #6 · answered by LINDA C 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The LORD on the crucifix represents his total, unconditional, life-giving, and free LOVE.
contraceptives deny the life-giving love.
pre-marital sex denys the total, unconditional, free, and usually life-giving love.
abortion denys life-giving, total, unconditional, and free love.
We should imitate Christ's love for us to others.
2007-12-21 12:02:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
A Christian ornament .
2007-12-21 12:08:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
All my sins are gone!!!
2007-12-21 13:19:03 · answer #9 · answered by sego lily 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Torture, pain, anger, people attacking others
2007-12-21 12:04:39 · answer #10 · answered by Autumn Moon 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋