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Cross, Symbol or Idol? Category: Bible Study Devotionals Views: 296 Please don't correct my grammar because i will ramble and it won't make any grammatical sense. Anyway so i was reading Acts 17 last night for my devotions and I came across verse 29 where Paul basically says that God should not be thought of as some thing designed by a craftsmen or made of objects (gold, silver, stone), so i began to wonder How many people hear God, Jesus, or Christ and think Cross? Now its true that as Christians we think of love, power and salvation when we hear those words, but that is not what i am asking, i'm asking about the face we show to non believers. Websters dictionary defines symbol as something that stands for or represents something else by reason of relationship, association, convention, or accidental resemblance. The same dictionary defines an idol as a representation or SYMBOL of an object of worship. So now we look back in the old testament and read about the pile of stones the people of Israel left in the middle of the Jordan and we compare it to what the cross means. But the pile of stones made sense because it only applied to those people, the problem is we can't have the cross be the savior because it did nothing to save us. The pile of stones wasn't world-wide, it was a symbol for those people to look at and remember what God did for them there. The cross is more broadly proclaimed, it has become a symbol for us of what Christ did to save us, and yet it is an idol of God to the confused, is it worth the risk? Could we look at what Christ did for us instead of focusing on where he died? Does the cross have to be so evident? When you see a church steeple, symbol on the bulletin, or even outer display, what is it? It's the cross and all the world sees it not God, How can we make it show what Christ did for us, because right now all it receives is affection, where it should be receiving appreciation. The cross is the church symbol world-wide, why isn't Christ our identity? Yeah i know he is to us but we're not the ones doing the perceiving. So what am i saying abolish all the crosses and take them all down, to tell you the truth if that what it comes to yeah then do it, the cross isn't just about Christ, the romans killed thousands by crucifixion, who are we to claim it, I claim God and what Christ did for me, who's with me?

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carrtoondragon	April 17, 2008, 05:41AM  odd, I didn't mean to make the ":P" thing at the end of my last comment...hmmm, O well.
carrtoondragon	April 17, 2008, 05:40AM  Good blog, yeah. I've thought about this myself. The cross itself seems over emphasized in our culture today. But it does have a good reason to be emphasized. That's where our savior died, it has a symbolic representation of Christ's actions. But I do think it is over emphasized. I remember one time I was listening to a song and it was saying "Mighty, awesome, wonderful Is the holy cross" which kind of annoyed me because the cross isn't what is mighty or Holy. It is my savior that is Holy. I get where the author of the song is coming from, but still. the next two lines are "Where the Lamb laid down His life To lift us from the fall" so that does make the song a little better. But still it's not the cross it's Christ. :P
Slater	February 14, 2008, 14:44PM  I agree that we should we worship the one who died on the cross not the cross.