Am I the only one who feels this way? It sort of seems like it
Crosses are everywhere. They're fancified, they're elaborate, they're covered in fake stones and colored and put on purses and shirts and walls and cars. My grandma and everyone I know has at least six or eight of them decorating one wall of the house with several scattered about in other places.
They symbolize Christ's death and the price he paid for our sins.
But... I don't like them. I understand what they symbolize (freedom from sins/Christ's sacrifice), but I also know what else they symbolize (torture of not only Jesus but the many other humans put to death).
I've always felt uncomfortable seeing crosses, especially decorative ones, but I never knew why. Then a few weeks ago, during a Sunday School lesson, a little thing tipped me off about why I felt this way. Our teacher was taking quotes from a lesson she had heard online and said "No one ever used the cross as a decoration until the last man who saw them used had died".
It helps to finally have figured out why I feel this way, but I don't know if I'm the only one. What do you guys think?
Crosses are everywhere. They're fancified, they're elaborate, they're covered in fake stones and colored and put on purses and shirts and walls and cars. My grandma and everyone I know has at least six or eight of them decorating one wall of the house with several scattered about in other places.
They symbolize Christ's death and the price he paid for our sins.
But... I don't like them. I understand what they symbolize (freedom from sins/Christ's sacrifice), but I also know what else they symbolize (torture of not only Jesus but the many other humans put to death).
I've always felt uncomfortable seeing crosses, especially decorative ones, but I never knew why. Then a few weeks ago, during a Sunday School lesson, a little thing tipped me off about why I felt this way. Our teacher was taking quotes from a lesson she had heard online and said "No one ever used the cross as a decoration until the last man who saw them used had died".
It helps to finally have figured out why I feel this way, but I don't know if I'm the only one. What do you guys think?