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To: DeweyShootem
We do not wear Crosses because to do so would be to celebrate the murder weapon that killed Jesus.

That's a logical reason but it is a bit like liberals and gun control.

Guns don't kill of themselves. They are a convenient tool for people who kill, who have to use blades and bludgeoning tools and poison and fire without the convenience of guns.

A wooden cross didn't leap up and kill Christ or fall over on him. Romans killed Christ as demanded by the hateful populace. I don't blame the inanimate cross for what the Romans and the people caused any more than I blame the inanimate gun for what a criminal does.

There were lots of ways the Romans could have killed Christ without a cross. If he was eaten by a lion, would you then hate lions?

In fact if you want to point to the true murder weapon, it would be the blade the Roman centurion used to puncture Christ's side, spilling his blood and water. The priests requested that Christ be killed so as not to die on the Sabbath Day, and so the Romans fulfilled their request by stabbing him with a blade.

So feel free to wear a cross, since a sword was used to finish off our Savior, the Son of God.

My post is somewhat facetious in that I can show that anything is prohibited or anything is allowable, if I just dig hard enough or rationalize long enough, or find the right conflicting reading of the Scripture. And I fully know that my post holds nothing for you but comedy and you won't listen to it or feel it holds any truth.

Other than that, Happy Easter to you, though you don't celebrate it. HE IS RISEN!

101 posted on 04/07/2012 5:40:40 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (REPEAL OBAMACARE. Nothing else matters.)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

1Co 1:17* For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.

1Co 1:18* For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

Ga 5:11* And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.

Ga 6:12* As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

Ga 6:14* But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

Eph 2:16* And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

Php 2:8* And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

Php 3:18* (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:

Col 1:20* And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

Col 2:14* Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

Heb 12:2* Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

The Apostle Paul celebrated the cross - mormons show us that they aren’t Christian by their rejection of the cross.


103 posted on 04/07/2012 6:06:10 PM PDT by Godzilla (3/7/77)
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