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Yeah, I agree. The most striking symbol of Christianity, with a most profound message to the world, is our hero, our Lord, our God hanging on a cross, naked, bloody, humiliated, dead. Whodathought? You just won't find such a concept anywhere else.As St. Paul wrote; "We worship Christ crucified". I wear a crucifix and there are a couple on the walls of our house, and there is a big one on the altar in my Church.
That's a bit of an odd take, considering that the plain cross was a novel idea-Calvin, especially, opposing the crucifix-which had been more the norm for centuries in both the east and the west. And I've never for a moment supposed or presumed that anyone wearing a crucifix was doing anything more than displaying their Christian faith with a time-honored practice- humbly unashamed of the gospel, proclaiming the death of the Lord Jesus all the while.By contrast, someone wearing a crucifix--and that's what we're talking about, not just the display of the crucifix in church, etc.--makes me think that person may be making a prideful show of loyalty to their denomination.
True, with plain crosses as well, in many variations of design.Of course, that's not always the case. People who have no religious affiliation at all sometimes like to show off the crucifix (and wear the rosary or hang it from their rear-view mirrors) just because it's ornate, or "neat," or in ordert to be provocative, or because it's especially "religious" or "devout" looking. That's not always the case, but often it is.
That's all quite irrelevant to the issue here IMO.That's a bit of an odd take, considering that the plain cross was a novel idea-Calvin, especially, opposing the crucifix-which had been more the norm for centuries in both the east and the west.
Probably because you didn't realize all that goes into some folks' decision.And I've never for a moment supposed or presumed that anyone wearing a crucifix was doing anything more than displaying their Christian faith with a time-honored practice- humbly unashamed of the gospel, proclaiming the death of the Lord Jesus all the while.
I wear both but I love the Crucifix, even though I'm not catholic. Some are opposed to wearing the crucifix and I don't understand why?i do prefer the empty cross though because it reminds me of the reserruction
Your thoughts?
Mine is worn inside my cloths. It is a reminder of our Lords great passion for all of God's children.I don't wear either. My personal thoughts are that we are to be known by our fruits and not by icons/jewelery, and I personally don't need a necklace to remind me of the sacrifice of Christ at Golgotha.
I have no hard feelings towards those that choose to adorn them selves with such iconography... it's hard to turn on the TV and not see some news anchor, or man on the street, or Hollywood starlet, or heavy metal rocker, or whomever wearing crosses/crucifixes.
That's the Jehovah's Witness view of the matter, all right, but it's incorrect. And even if the word encompasses both an upright stake and a crucifix, there is little doubt that the Romans normally used crosses.According to one authority, the Greek word (stau·ros´) rendered “cross” in the King James Version “denotes, primarily, an upright pale or stake.
I don't wear either anymore.I wear both but I love the Crucifix, even though I'm not catholic. Some are opposed to wearing the crucifix and I don't understand why?i do prefer the empty cross though because it reminds me of the reserruction
Your thoughts?
"For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified."The crucifix is different from the Cross. The Cross is Jesus no longer hanging on it. The crucifix as you see in the Catholic Church is a Cross showing Jesus still hanging on it. Jesus is not still hanging on the Cross.
Did you ever consider "Christian Prayer Beads" instead?I pray with the bbnradio.org just about every day at 1:15PM. I take my rosary beads with me, even though the Catholics say they are no good without the priests blessings!
There are certainly anti-Catholics under some beds, though, aren't there? Else why any opposition to crucifixes or making the sign of the Cross? "Oooooh if we make the sign of the Cross of Christ people will think we're (shudder!) Catholic." Same with the crucifix.First, what I said was that I am amazed how many people see anti-Catholics under every bed
If only because Protestants have abandoned the use of the crucifix for fear of appearing Catholic.But the fact remains that to wear a cross is to make a statement about Christianity whereas a crucifix suggests that the wearer is making a statement about his or her denomination.
The problem with the plain cross is that it has been thoroughly secularized, to the extent that it has become in many cases just another ornament. That's happening with the crucifix as well, especially with the "street culture" fad of wearing rosaries, but hasn't gonee as far as it has with the Protestant corss.Not all of those who do wear crucifixes are doing it for that reason, but some are. There's no such problem with the cross.
The Round Table Society, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Illuminati Inc. We're Everywhere, We're Everywhere!Thirdly, I do not have the burden of making sure that all my statements pass muster with the "Round Table " society.
If you want to live like a conspiracy theorist all the time, I suppose so.There are certainly anti-Catholics under some beds, though, aren't there?
Surely you aren't saying that there is no reasonable explanation why anyone might not favor a crucifix with corpus EXCEPT THAT they're looking for something Catholic to be upset about. I would hope that's not the case and it's dead wrong in any case.Else why any opposition to crucifixes or making the sign of the Cross?
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