Posted on 04/04/2013 10:02:05 AM PDT by NYer
We put a corpus on the cross to remind us that it was on the cross that Jesus—the sinless one—felt the effects of sin that we experience at every moment. It is the blood of the Lamb of God on the wood that makes the angel of death pass us by.
It comes from their tradition. The Reformation was like a divorce, where each of the parties must persuade themselves how awful the other is. In the worse cases, of course, it is more like a murder.
Abandon the Bible and go with Rome?
Which version of the Tanakh are you using?
How did that Bible get to you?
Well, the Jews gave us the Torah, w'Nebiim, w'Kethubim. The early believers gave us the four gospel accounts and the Acts of the Apostles and other epistles. Paul wrote 14 of the 27 NT letters/books. This all occurred long before Rome promoted itself to the "look at me" organization it is today. Perhaps you would care to read real history, not party propaganda?
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